The End Game
Review #1
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Coulter and Ellison are an unbeatable duo with their out of the box hijinks. Mike Caine and Nicolas Drummond as well. This series is a swashbuckling romp, good guys (gals) saving the world through their brilliant, quick-thinking minds and beating the bad guys. High drama, terrifying near misses, ultimately the great d guys (gals) win. Can’t turn pages fast enough. This variation of the FBI thrillers is already at #3 here. Catch up.
Review #2
The End Game audiobook Series A Brit in the FBI
The book begins by introducing members of the COE (Celebrants of Earth), a group that randomly blows up small oil refineries to disrupt oil shipments from the Middle East. While not benign, the COE had a conscience and avoided injuring anyone or taking lives. The genius of the group, Matthew Spenser, has a fanatical hatred towards terrorists because his parents were killed by a bomb in London. He is front and center throughout the book because he built a really serious, BIG PAYOFF, bomb that is the size of a fifty-cent piece. Imagine a bomb that can get lost in your pocket change or that could be dropped in any niche or corner and be completely overlooked, and the computerized trigger can be thousands of miles away from the bomb? The new bomb got the attention of the big honchos in the Middle East so “the most dangerous assassin in the world” is sent off with a few million dollars and a hidden agenda to recruit Matthew. The assassin, Zahir Damari, cozies up to Matthew with a false agenda of killing terrorists. And so the soup (er…plot) thickens.
During an investigation of a tip, FBI Special Agents Michaela Caine and Nicholas Drummond were five minutes away from the explosion of an oil refinery in NJ. As early responders, they helped rescue people and became immediately entrenched in apprehending the COE. This bomb killed 15 people. You will not want to put this book down, everything moves fast, the dialogue is crazy good and the story is divided into mere days that are easy to follow notwithstanding that it covers moving events around the glove, from NY to the Middle East, London, D.C. and Virginia.
The characters are complex and incredible: old favorites (Dillon Savich and his wife Sherlock) show up, as well as the some of the FBI top shelf we are familiar with and new characters that include the President, attending Middle East peace talks in Geneva and the Vice President who is simultaneously being briefed that nuclear facilities in Iran have gone live (facilities they won’t let UN inspectors close to), plus we meet the Directors of the National Intelligence Agency and the CIA and various spook and secret service operatives and protectors.
My love affair with Coulter books goes back more than three decades. Coulter teamed up with J. T. Ellison and THE END GAME is their third book. This book is the epitome of what Oscar Wilde said, “Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.” I know this book was being written before the current events in America but it is chilling how realistic this is compared to current events we currently live with – this is a timely and a GREAT book.
Review #3
Audiobook The End Game by Catherine Coulter
I have read the previous Coulter/Ellison “Brit in the FBI” books (The Final Cut and The Lost Key) which were excellent books. The End Game quite frankly make the prior books pale in comparison.
The story takes place in less than a week. Nicholas Drummond and Michaela (Mike) Caine are partners in the NY city office of the FBI searching out information to apprehend the leaders of COE who have been blowing up refineries in an attempt to force US oil companies to stop buying from the middle east. A tip from an informant leads them to a nearby refinery which is literally blown up in front of them – with the loss of 15 refinery worker’s lives. Nicholas had a hunch that the informant was in danger and had FBI agents guarding him – when they return not only is the informant dead, but all three guards have been killed. Up until this bombing, no lives have been lost – COE has changed their tactics.
Vanessa Grace builds bombs for COE – but she is actually a CIA undercover agent. She is horrified that her boss, Matthew Spenser, has developed a super bomb and tested it at the refinery. Her job was to obtain the bomb and turn it over to the CIA. COE’s computer wizard hacks into the computer systems of the major oil companies creating chaos.
The story is fast moving, tense and illustrates the secrets kept between the highest law enforcement entities – and the potential cost of that secrecy.
If you want to read in the current political climate, you may. I chose to read this as a potential scenario of what COULD happen if the various agencies fail to share information is a timely manner. Terrorism is alive and well, as this story illustrates. Nicholas and Mike manage to save lives and prevent major disruptions to the infrastructure using teamwork and smart thinking.
This book will keep you drawn into the story from page one… brilliant piece of writing. Coulter and Ellison have written another winner – looking forward to more from this team.
Review #4
Audio The End Game narrated by MacLeod Andrews
Another wild ride with Nicholas and Mike, trying to stop a psychopath on a mission to wipe out our President, vice-president and anyone else in his way. A master of disguise, can they find him in time????
Review #5
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Get to the end as fast as you can! I am not familiar with the game of chess, but you can imagine what it can be like when two people face one another in a game. In this case, two groups of people on the opposite side of the law. The game in this book is a dangerous one and requires quick thinking, fast decisions, a vew of the possibilities of what can happen if intuition does not come into play. We are gratefull to FBI agents Nicholas Dummond, a British import into the investigations in the U.S. and his partner Mike Caine, a policewoman with a temper and very smart. As you turn the pages in the hunt of guilty killers and bombers you just wish you could be a fast reader so that you could finish the book quickly and get to the end and see how justice is done. Terrific reading! I remember my mother’s way of reading: she used to run through the book quickly. Then she used to put it away for a couple of weeks and then pick it up again and read it slowly and really savor the story and really make sense of it since she already knew the ending! To each its own!
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