Triple Identity

Dan Gordon #1

by Haggai Carmon

Attorney and former intelligence officer Dan Gordon finds himself caught in an international conspiracy involving murder, espionage, and kidnapping when he investigates a Romanian banker who is laundering stolen Canadian money.

Genres: Fiction, Thriller, Mystery Thriller

380 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Amanda · Rating 2 out of 5]

I wanted to like this book so bad. I do forensic accounting for a police department and I was really hoping for more methodology on the money laundering. It seemed like it took a really long time to tell a relatively short story.

[Ben Pashkoff · Rating 4 out of 5]

a bit rough around the edges. If the author had not taken the pain of explaining that the main character is based on hos own life, it would have been all too easy to say that the character is highly unlikely to exist. In any case, the characters were a bit shallow, and the plot a bit too twisted and the dialog too contrived.

[Walt Mccluskey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Triple identity

More twists and turns than most of the books I have read in the last year or so, made somewhat irritating by the pedantic style used by the author. A story can hold my attention without getting in the weeds for every observation.

[Elaine Tucker · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very good read. Dan Gordon meets Ariel. A suspense from Germany, Moscow, Israel, and other places. This one will keep your mind busy, trying to follow all the places and the people.

[Manugw · Rating 4 out of 5]

FOUR STARS FOR THE SET UP OF THE PLOT OF THIS FIRST NOVEL

With a very enticing, clever and smart plot, that makes the reader tick from the very beginning, and carefully worked out with alluring elements for lovers of spy novels like Israel Mossad operational recruitment procedures and operational tricks, ruthless Iranians agents making shady deals to obtain components to make the A bomb, greedy European bank executives and the CIA intervention, the author conceives a very attractive fiction novel based on his own life experiences

However there are some features, that in my opinion he must work hard to improve for future spy novels.

It is clear that Mr Carmon is not a professional writer and it shows, as the language he employs is plain and simple as the one you may find in the World section of any English language newspaper.

He also makes a second mistake as an apprentice, and that is, to unveil the whole scheme of the plot in the last 20 pages, reeling off names, places, bay guys, situations and events, one right after the other overwhelming the mind of the reader instead of making breathtaking twists and turns every step of the way.

[Sue · Rating 4 out of 5]

Apparently, the author, Haggai Carmon, is also an Israeli-born lawyer who works for the US Government on recovering very large sums of stolen funds, just like the protagonist of this story. And apparently, though the book is fiction, it contains elements from the author's own experiences. As a result, this story has less melodrama & more real-life gritty details than lots of similar stories. I found it very absorbing.

[Roger Scherping · Rating 1 out of 5]

Very poorly written. The insights into the espionage business were mostly points that anyone who reads adventure novels already knows. The financial connections of the plot were too complicated to follow. Finally, instead of the type of action that one expects in a novel like this, most of the book consisted of people talking and reviewing the points of what was happening. I could only sit and read page after page of dialogue for so long.

[Lee Sweetapple · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a fun ride. It is a bit different, almost hearing the author's voice, which is hard to separate from the lead character's, as he describes the complicated plot. Although quit different from the dialogue driven works that I write, I really enjoyed the plot and the detail. I will read more books from this author.

[Breonne · Rating 3 out of 5]

I couldn't pronounce a lot of the places in the book since I have never been to Europe, etc. and don't really speak any language other than English. It kept my attention but it got really slow at parts and I would have to take a couple of days off to gear back up for it.

[Skip · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent thriller, with a former Israeli-trained spy working to track down stolen money from a murdered man, with three identities. Lots of competing interests swirling around: South American drug lords, money laundering bankers, German police, Israeli spies and FBI.

[james · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a fast-moving story of an Israeli/American investigator for a US government agency trying to recover missing money. The author's background includes stints as a Mossad agent in Israel and as US operative trying to recover ill-gotten gains. I can't wait to read another book by Carmon.

[Margaret Konecsni]

OK, I gave up on this, just so you know. There were way too mnay elements for your usual spy/espionage novel, and no way to connect them together.

[Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

This really was a good book. A little bit dated, but good thriller without all the language and sex. Well written and I could recommend it. It wasn't the greatest book out there, but a good read.

[Julie Connolly · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed how Dan Gordon drew from his Mossad training and applied it to his current work with the DoJ.

[Cathy Settle · Rating 4 out of 5]

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It was a little hard getting into but once you did I couldn't put it down. Great book lots of interesting things

[Ardis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Intense read.

[Ksb Nh · Rating 4 out of 5]

I particularly liked the descriptions re how the different governments worked together.

[Kimberly]

don't like the way it is written; didn't read