The Hidden Assassins
Javier Falcon series #3
by Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson is a great thriller writer who knows instinctively how to keep the reader turning the pages of the
book. He totally captivates with many different twists and turns that you would never expect of the characters
and their stories and how they mesh into each other’s lives. I would have to put this book right up at the top
of those best-seller lists, just because he keeps the plot evolving and gyrating through many angles that take
the reader on a journey of forced participation.
The Hidden Assassins is set in Seville, Spain, and features Police Insp. Jefe Javier Falcón, who is
immersed in solving the riddle of who done it and why that exact location. A bomb explodes in a Seville apartment
building, and although not that many are killed, the method of delivering the bomb raises suspicions that the
bomb was not supposed to blow up where it did. A Mosque is involved in the blow-up, and this is where different
aspects come into play in decoding this bombing. Could this have been a plot that went awry, or was the intent
to inflame the Muslim community? Then there is the adultery and murder of one of the wives of an investigator,
and a totally mutilated corpse had turned up the day before the bomb exploded. Also, the CGI (Comisaria General
de Informacion) had schemed to get a person (mole) into one of the GICM (Groupe Islamique Combattant Marocain)
Muslim sects, which could have been responsible for this bombing. A race begins to stop second, third, and fourth
bombs from blowing up around the globe. All the while, you are digging into the personal lives of those involved
in the clean up and investigation and their procedures for getting the work done. The Hidden Assassins is
truly suspenseful writing at its best. Read it and think about the state of the world today, all the work it
takes to keep people safe, and how that wrings out the beast and brings him forth into our daily lives. |
The Book |
Harcourt Books, Inc |
November 2006 |
Hardcover |
0-15-101239-3 |
Suspense/Thriller |
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Excerpt |
NOTE: violence, mildly sexually provocative situations and mildly offensive language |
The Reviewer |
Claudia Turner VanLydegraf |
Reviewed 2006 |
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