Flint's Code

Grace Flint #3

by Paul Eddy

The incredible Grace Flint is back. She is the best undercover cop in the business, a chameleon personality who can assume many different personas. She is a driven woman, tortured by past betrayals and now she has a burning desire to avenge her tormentors. Karl Grober is a vicious East European money-launderer, one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted criminals. Flint is assigned the task of infiltrating his organisation and bringing him to justice, dead or alive. She is going deep undercover. She joins a financial investment company as a tax expert and attempts to pull off an outrageous sting; she sows the seeds of doubt in Grober's ally - Alexander Carcani, an Albanian running a prostitution and child body-farming ring. But Flint has a young son - the chink in her armour - and when she realises somebody knows everything about her and is determined to target her weakest point, it's inevitable that all hell will break loose...

Genres: Thriller, Crime

Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Rowena Hoseason · Rating 2 out of 5]

Grace Flint’s ‘code’ appears to be do completely the wrong thing in any critical situation, regularly risking the lives law enforcement agents and her own family while facilitating the escape of the bad guys. She’s supposed to be the best undercover agent in the global business of financial shenanigans. Instead she’s a maverick liability whose inability to follow procedures or adhere to the most basic forms of tradecraft somehow mysteriously sees her promoted to the level of FBI Deputy Director.

Obviously, Paul Eddy can craft an engaging tale because he’s got me frothing about how ludicrous this situation is. There’s certainly an excellent segment of this story where Grace confronts her opposite number, a female assassin, and we learn the sniper’s compelling back story. The hitwoman is a far more competent operative, to be honest. But overall I spent most of this book fuming about the daft behaviour of its protagonist, and I will avoid picking up any others in this series.
4/10

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[Rianonne]

Started out with action and developed very fast into boring babbling.

[Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

Flint's Code is the final Grace Flint book that Paul Eddy authored before his untimely death. While it's clear from several loose ends at the conclusion, that he almost certainly meant to write another, there is more than enough closure to make this a worthwhile read for fans of his obsessive protagonist.

After one of her comrades in arms on the Financial Strike Force is seriously injured in a boobie trapped building during a raid, Flint attempts to flush out Karl Gröber, the criminal mastermind responsible, by starting a war between him and one of his clients, Alexander Çarçani, the head of a global organization engaged in human, drug, and organ trafficking. Her targets fail to take the bait, however, so Flint's Plan B is to infiltrate Gröber's organization directly. She's successful in doing so, but her increasingly tenuous grasp on relationships with both her father and her newborn son lead her to make some deadly miscalculations that put her family in the firing line, place her career in peril, and bring her mental health to the edge of collapse. Flint is on the ragged edge in her pursuit of Gröber and Çarçani, and she is in very real danger of losing everything she cares about.

Flint's Code is written with the same intelligence and style as author Eddy's prior two outings, but the story meanders a bit before building momentum that carries through to the end. Flint's deteriorating emotional state rears its head in impulsive decision-making, tunnel vision, and tactical mis-steps that only her innate talents, smarts, and a little luck prevent from doing her in. Grace is less likable in this state, but by the novel's end, her journey has justified her superiors' - and the reader's - faith in her capabilities and her character. We'll never know what Paul Eddy had planned for Grace Flint beyond this third book, and while the first volume is clearly the strongest, Flint's Code is a satisfying page-turner with a compelling heroine.

[Chloe · Rating 4 out of 5]

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Flint’s Code - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Flint’s Code follows the story of Grace Flint, a successful undercover cop, as she chases a case that she has been intent on closing for many years. As the case gets closer and closer to her life it tests just how determined she is to getting the suspects taken down.
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I enjoyed this book, definitely getting more into it towards the end. There were many intense moments and plot twists that kept me highly engaged with the story and I found myself attached to many of the characters. It’s a book that would fit nicely on any crime book lover’s bookshelf and I would recommend

[Dave Cooke · Rating 1 out of 5]

The lead protagonist, Grace Flint, is supposed to be brilliant undercover cop.
She is useless.
First half of this is boring...she spends pages and pages as sessions with her psychologist....absolute rubbish.
The second half did pick up quite a bit...but then died down again.
I haven't read others in the series...and won't.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book but found it blatantly obvious that the author was a man trying to write a female character. Not surprisingly the character was a tad masculine, however it worked for the particular character and wasn't a distraction. I thought the plot skipped along and there were no parts where I felt bored. I don't why other people gave it such a low score but I thought it was worthy of reading.

[Anna · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was bad. I thought it would be struggle between two criminals and an undercover cop. From certain moment it stopped having much of the action - it was all about wounded infant and his mother. That's why I love Kathy Reichs - love and family affairs are part of the action and don't stop it; she doen't write them instead of action.

[Celine · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have to admit that I skipped over some parts as the description were too detailed for me - but overall I enjoyed the storyline and the development of events. The end didn't impress me at all, but the story overall made up for it.

[Ana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Review to come!

[Katrina McCrea · Rating 3 out of 5]

Took a while to get into it but enjoyed it none the less