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A celebrity journalist deals both his mid-life crisis and someone who, in the past, had vowed to kill the him.
Willi Koenig is a celebrity journalist, and a highly respected television 'talking head'; but he counts himself a failure. He had written, exposed, urged, and did battle year after year yet little, if anything, changed.
While struggling with his deep `mid-life' crisis, he accidentally comes across the one person he never expected to see again; a former Wermacht officer and convicted war criminal who had vowed to kill Koenig if they ever met again. Koenig has a choice: either discover and write about how a ex-war criminal managed to get into the United States, or end his depression with his own personal assassin.
Koenig moves back and forth between the two paths, sowing confusion and pain for those around him, especially his wife. Koenig's `assassin' is also conflicted. He's trying to forget his crazed vow of decades ago in order to fulfill an undercover mission.
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Ryan Budde
reviewed The Penalty of Hoping on July 30, 2010
The Penalty of Hoping
Second in the series with Marquez inland looking for bear poachers. This time he has a new team and a new boss. Same MO as the first. Dedicated and indefatiguable agent and his team up against a resourceful and violent foe who threatens families of the agents. Also the same plot device of working with a local cop who has his own agenda but less confrontational than the first book's local cop. I liked Marquez in this book more than in the first. The plot is fast paced but the resolution at the end is too violent and perhaps unrealistic-almost like narco-violence. It's realistic in one sense that the perpetrator seems to get away with murder and cops minor pleas. Marquez is a go-to guy who always keeps his cool whether it's dealing with scumbags or the spineless bureaucrats in Sacramento. Going to have to read the third one.
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