I was above average entertained, so I'm giving this 4 stars, *but* there were a couple considerable gaps in logic*, and I liked the main characters, but I wasn't as attached to them as I might have been. High steam.

* A couple examples of the sort of things that didn't quite hold water. (Significant spoilers). The MMC is convinced that anyone might be in on this presidential assassination, to the point he's practically gone rogue, but then a shady character pulls up outside his house claiming to be FBI or CIA or something (I can't remember), and he immediately trusts everything this guy says, even when it contradicts the word of the vice president whom he's also in love with, AND he confides in him all this stuff he's been keeping to himself up to that point. Why?? He knows assassinating a president at camp David while simultaneously removing documents from the White House requires at least *some* governmental insiders with high clearance, why completely rule out this total stranger? A highly placed baddie would totally benefit from giving him false clues, threatening him, trying to get him to turn on the VP, and mining what information he's gained so far. It's looney to entirely rule him out. Another example, it turns out that the president didn't share his dangerous knowledge with his best friend and VP because he didn't want to put him in danger... but also left clues for him that only he would know, so that he could try to piece it together- which is actually way more f***ing dangerous than just having the heads up about the danger to begin with! Ffs. Why be forewarned about who you definitely shouldn't trust and where to look for the evidence you'll need, when you could instead just be sent off bumbling about trying to string together some disperate clues?! Eesh. I get that if he'd just given them all the information then there wouldn't have been much of a case to solve, but the way it was just doesn't really make sense. ( )