I totally enjoyed reading this! ( )

Entertaining political thriller, in which the President-elect's daughter is kidnapped, and featuring a Hannibal Lectur-like evil character, as well as underlying tensions between a right-wing conservative religious U.S. Administration and secularist groups in society. It's good vs. evil, except in this case, it's the secularists who represent the good, and the religious conservatives representing the evil. ( )

I read this author years ago (his Nicholas Linnear series back in the 1980s I think). I found this book different than I remember his writing. This book reminded me a bit more of David Baldacci's thrillers.

I'm not quite sure what agency McClure works for. He seems to bounce around between agencies a bit at the request of the President Elect.

I was kept guessing for most of the book but I did put the pieces together slightly before Jack did while he was in the library--though there was a twist but I did guess who the second person was slightly before Jack did as well. I also guessed that the diary/journal might be on the iPod. ( )

Very difficult to follow plot due to abrupt shifts in timeing, character perspective and genre (?thriller, fantasy, procedural, etc). Poor psychology re: Jack's life story, his dyslexia, and interaction with wife and daughter. ( )

Barely 3. I liked the story, but it was terribly hard to follow at times. ( )