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Soon to be a Netflix original series! "Plenty of breathless one-more-chapter, stay-up-late suspense wrapped around a meaty and timely story... irresistible." -- Lee Child To find a Russian mole in the White House, an FBI agent must question everything. . . and trust no one. No one is more surprised than FBI Agent Peter Sutherland when he's tapped to work in the White House Situation Room. When Peter was a boy, his father was suspected of selling secrets to the Russians--a breach that cost him his career, his reputation, and eventually his life. Now Peter's job is monitoring an emergency line for a call that has not--and might never--come. Until tonight. At 1:05 A.M. the phone rings. A terrified young woman named Rose tells Peter that two people have just been murdered and that the killer might still be in the house with her. One of the victims gave her this phone number with urgent instructions: "Tell them OSPREY was right. It's happening..." The call thrusts Peter into the heart of a conspiracy years in the making, involving a Russian mole at the highest levels of the U.S. government. Anyone in the White House could be the traitor. Anyone could be corrupted. To save the nation, Peter must take the rules into his own hands, question everything, and trust no one.
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Very quick pace. Well written action, feel the true sense of urgency. Decent character development, extremely readable and well defined without too much fluff or extra prose. Lots of quick-fire dialogue and descriptive action that makes it a very quick and effective read, despite the length. A bit of a cookie-cutter government conspiracy plot was one of the only reasons it was just good and not great.