My Pick of the Week!

In this book, that could be considered a Da Vinci Code read-alike, Nicholas Marten, the ex-LAPD detective from the author's previous novel, The Exile (2004), pursues an international conspiracy in this action-filled page-turner. When an old love of Marten's dies of a mysterious infection shortly after her congressman husband and son perish in a plane accident, her dying words set Marten on the trail of a South African bioterrorist. The former cop soon finds himself allied with the U.S. president, Henry Harris, in trying to foil a team of terrorists bent on creating a new world order. Harris flees his Secret Service protection after rejecting the plan of virtually his whole cabinet to assassinate the leaders of France and Germany and replace them with people willing to launch biological warfare on most of the Middle East. While somewhat short on plausibility, there was lots of action and excitement in The Machiavelli Covenant by Alan Folsom!

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