Set against a backdrop of Oval Office corruption, bestseller Meltzer's overblown thriller opens with a frantic assassination attempt on President Leland Manning, who manages to elude the gunfire. Manning's deputy chief of staff, Ron Boyle, is killed, and his top aide, the cocky, ambitious Wes Holloway, is left facially disfigured. Eight years later, his motivation and confidence drained by his handicap, Holloway still toils away for the out-of-office Manning, fetching refreshments and handling the daily social calendar. On a goodwill junket to Malaysia, however, Holloway spots Boyle, surgically altered, but unmistakably the same man who was supposed to be dead and gone. From this turning point, Meltzer (The Zero Game) follows Holloway step by excruciatingly slow step as he tries to find out what really happened eight years earlier.
I have to say I loved this book. I did not read any of the reviews before hand (I rarely do) and I have to say I was really shocked at the reviews on Amazon. To be truthful, I did expect something a little more along the lines of The Davinci Code or National Treasure but I was not disappointed in what I got. I enjoyed the book immensely. I found myself listening even at lunch. I did do the audio version of this book and maybe that made a difference. It was funny to find myself hoping that someone would make a particular decision and getting exciteed when they did. While I probably wouldn't give this book 5 stars I would probably rate it at least a 4. It sure brought up some frightening thoughts on just how easily the government has been corrupted.
Book of Lies is next in my aduio queue.
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