Book Review: Robert Ludlum’s The Janus Reprisal by Jamie Freveletti

Robert Ludlum’s The Janus Reprisal by Jamie Freveletti is the ninth spy thriller in the Covert-One series (available September 11, 2012).

 



With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles
and paralyzed by bureaucracy, the president was forced to establish his
own clandestine group—Covert-One. It is activated only as a last
resort, when the threat is on a global scale and time is running out.





Covert-One operative Colonel Jon Smith is attending a conference in
The Hague on infectious diseases, together with leading scientists and
political figures from around the world. Without warning, the conference
hotel is consumed in a bloodbath. Smith is caught in the crossfire and
barely escapes . . . but not before discovering a picture of himself and
two other targets in the pocket of one of the shooters.





Who is targeting them and why? Smith knows one of the other people in
the pictures is an MI6 operative, but who is the woman? And why did the
perps break into the safe of the hotel where some of the delegates were
staying but not steal any valuables apart from some scientific samples
in test tubes?



There are a lot of whys in this novel, but not enough time to think
about them, not only because the answers are too easy to find, but also
due to the fact that the action progresses so fast that there’s hardly
any time to think things through.



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