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Lee Goldberg: True fiction (2018)

237 pages

English language

Published April 19, 2018

ISBN:
978-1-5039-4918-8
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OCLC Number:
1028638966

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3 stars (4 reviews)

When a passenger jet crashes onto the beaches of Waikiki, bestselling thriller writer Ian Ludlow knows the horrific tragedy wasn't an accident. Years before, the CIA enlisted Ian to dream up terrorism scenarios to prepare the government for nightmares they couldn't imagine. Now one of those schemes has come true, and Ian is the only person alive who knows how it was done ... and who is behind the plot. That makes him too dangerous to live. Ian goes on the run, sweeping up an innocent bystander in his plight--Margo French, a dog walker and aspiring singer. They are pursued by assassins and an all-seeing global-intelligence network that won't stop until Ian and Margo are dead. Ian has written thrillers like this before, but this time he doesn't know how it's going to end--or if he will be alive to find out.

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4 stars

Ian Ludlow is a thriller write recruited by the CIA to help predict terrorists acts. When one of his ideas actually happens and the other writers recruited to come up with more ideas end up dead, he takes flight, just barely staying one step ahead of the hit squad, before finally turning the tables on them.

More a 3.5 star book, but it moved along at a pretty good clip and had some pretty funny lines, so I'll round it up to 4. Ian Ludlow, despite writing about a killer soldier type, has never hit anything harder than a keyboard and so becomes an interesting "fish out of water" character. He picks up a reluctant accomplice and together, thru planning and hilarious accidents, manage to survive long enough to set up the bad guys.

I've never read a book by the "best selling author" Goldberg, but this was perfectly fine …

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Subjects

  • Terrorism
  • Fiction
  • Aircraft accidents
  • Authors

Places

  • Hawaii
  • Waikiki Beach