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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
ultra fast-paced McGarvey thriller
10 July 2010
Format:Hardcover
In Washington DC, CIA agent Todd Van Buren meets his college friend Washington Post reporter Josh Givens at a D.C. restaurant. Josh mentions to Todd he's investigating an apparent top secret government cell the Friday Club. He insists the group consists of political and military insiders who from the shadows run the government.
Not long after they depart, two snipers assassinate Todd, who ran the CIA training "Farm" with his wife Elizabeth, as he drives on the Interstate near Fredericksburg, Maryland. A few hours later, assassins murder Josh, his wife and their son in their townhouse. Former CIA Director Kirk McGarvey has no time to grieve the death of his son-in-law. Fuming, he vows to find the killers, their handlers, and their leaders as more people are murdered; some even closer to him.
The latest ultra fast-paced McGarvey thriller is an exhilarating action-packed tale with several twists that even the hero never anticipated. Fast-paced throughout, McGarvey struggles with psychological trauma like none he faced before even when he dealt with a best friend mole inside the agency and staying alive as he climbs the pyramid of the Friday Club hierarchy.
Harriet Klausner
Not long after they depart, two snipers assassinate Todd, who ran the CIA training "Farm" with his wife Elizabeth, as he drives on the Interstate near Fredericksburg, Maryland. A few hours later, assassins murder Josh, his wife and their son in their townhouse. Former CIA Director Kirk McGarvey has no time to grieve the death of his son-in-law. Fuming, he vows to find the killers, their handlers, and their leaders as more people are murdered; some even closer to him.
The latest ultra fast-paced McGarvey thriller is an exhilarating action-packed tale with several twists that even the hero never anticipated. Fast-paced throughout, McGarvey struggles with psychological trauma like none he faced before even when he dealt with a best friend mole inside the agency and staying alive as he climbs the pyramid of the Friday Club hierarchy.
Harriet Klausner
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Not up to Hagberg's normal level
14 July 2010
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I found myself strangely disappointed with this latest installment in the McGarvey series. Perhaps it was just too much happening with too shallow a plot line. It was fast paced and actually the last thirty pages could have been stretched a bit to extend the best action in the entire novel. Maybe Hagberg has simply set the bar too for himself and this effort failed to clear it cleanly for me. Or maybe there are just too many books out now with this whole shadow government conspiracy.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
The Cabal
12 July 2010
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
The Cabal tackles the loose ends from David Hagberg's previous two Kirk McGarvey novels, Dance with the Dragon and The Expediter, with the ex-CIA director unravelling a conspiracy among powerful figures in the US governmnet to alter the world's political and economic balance of power. Meanwhile, McGarvey is wanted for treason and his own government is after him.
It's a different type of story from Hagberg's usual novels of the US versus some foreign enemy and resembles Robert Ludlum's paranoid conspiracy thrillers, but Hagberg does it well.
As always, Hagberg is great at building suspense, creating realistic scenarios, and quickly moving the plot along, without getting bogged down in too much detail or background information. There's some great new locations here, with McGarvey operating out of Iraq, and some real surprises as Hagberg kills off major characters. People close to McGarvey die and although the case becomes a personal one for him, Hagberg is a skillful enough writer not to write a trite, rehashed revenge story.
The book does get a little repitive at times and some more pages devoted to the villains would have been nice. The villaisn are an interesting bunch this time around, but Hagberg focuses very little on them, except for their assassins.
It's a good but not great Hagberg thriller and doesn't quite match the qaulity of The Expediter. But it's still a fast and enjoyable read. David Hagberg is extremely prolific, and I have no idea how he manages to write so many good books.
It's a different type of story from Hagberg's usual novels of the US versus some foreign enemy and resembles Robert Ludlum's paranoid conspiracy thrillers, but Hagberg does it well.
As always, Hagberg is great at building suspense, creating realistic scenarios, and quickly moving the plot along, without getting bogged down in too much detail or background information. There's some great new locations here, with McGarvey operating out of Iraq, and some real surprises as Hagberg kills off major characters. People close to McGarvey die and although the case becomes a personal one for him, Hagberg is a skillful enough writer not to write a trite, rehashed revenge story.
The book does get a little repitive at times and some more pages devoted to the villains would have been nice. The villaisn are an interesting bunch this time around, but Hagberg focuses very little on them, except for their assassins.
It's a good but not great Hagberg thriller and doesn't quite match the qaulity of The Expediter. But it's still a fast and enjoyable read. David Hagberg is extremely prolific, and I have no idea how he manages to write so many good books.
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