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For more than a decade, Ryan Kealey has been a key player in the war on terror. First, as a captain in the U.S. Army's third Special Forces Group, then as a contract operative with the CIA. His actions have saved thousands of lives, including that of the U.S. President. Now once again, Kealey receives the call of duty - only this time, the odds for success are slim to none...
Tensions between Pakistan and India are at an all-time high. To complicate matters, twelve American climbers have disappeared in the snow-capped peaks of Pakistan's Hindu Kush range. The President is demanding answers, but neither government is supplying them.
As the conflict escalates, Brynn Fitzgerald departs Washington D.C. on her first official trip as acting secretary of state. Her goal is to serve as an intermediary between the leaders of both nations as well as to ensure all efforts are being made in the search for the missing American climbers. But when Fitzgerald's motorcade is ambushed on the outskirts of Islamabad, her back-up team arrives to discover a disastrous scene: dozens are dead, including seven diplomatic security agents, and the secretary of state has vanished without a trace.
In the wake of the unprecedented attack, Kealey's operation goes into high gear. Once again, he is joined by Naomi Kharmai, the British-born analyst who has taken on a daring new role with the Agency. But Kharmai is becoming as unpredictable as the man they're going after, and as they work their way toward the target, it becomes clear to Kealey that anyone is fair game - and no one can be trusted.
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Tammy Bowen
reviewed The Invisible on March 17, 2012
The Invisible
Overall, a smart and fun read. I especially liked the brief "aside" on page 90 (in the volume I read), where Britton is reflecting upon the complexity of emerging terrorist threats. Excellent point that terrorist organizations are adapting their funding, their recruiting, and their short-term cooperative attacks.
Compared with the previous book (which I haven't actually finished), there are still a dizzying number of characters and perspectives through/from which the story unfolds. Now that it's obvious who are the main characters, that's a little less disconcerting. Even so, there are sections where the character depth is cumbersome ... such as, the long description of one character's contact with Noriega. Cumbersome and distracting ... leads to skimming!
The biggest issue I have with the storytelling is that the three female characters are just damsels in distress:
1) The female Secretary of State is makes a bad judgment about her motorcade route (against the advice of her male security guards, of course) and after being kidnapped only able to communicate an emotional charge with her eyes.
2) One of the female agents tries something heroic to rescue other agents in distress, but then she totally falls apart from the indirect consequences of this effort. And it turns out that she has a really bad drug problem due to a previous traumatic situation from book 2.
3) The other female agent is a total pawn of a family member. And basically all she contributes to the story is fawning over our macho lead character who decides to spare her from what the family member tried to force.
Seriously?! For a young writer, I expected Britton to have stronger female characters who are the equals of his male characters. Disappointed enough that it dropped my rating by a star.
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