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Rick Behringer is an outside contractor working for the Central Intelligence Agency. He owns a small company that, in the light of day, provides communications security for government offices, including the CIA. In the shadows, though, Rick's a spy. He runs overseas agents for the CIA and, through his firm, buys foreign military technology that the Agency wants to inspect
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In the days of a collapsed Soviet Union and the springing up of rogue elements around the world Colin Mackinnon has unleashed a novel that might be more hypothetical than fiction. A rogue nuclear physicist and others who are determined to acquire the material necessary for building weapons provide the impetus for the adventure.
There are not many surprises in the story and it is rather predictable in most parts. What is not predictable is the back-story of a CIA communications contactor, his ...more
There are not many surprises in the story and it is rather predictable in most parts. What is not predictable is the back-story of a CIA communications contactor, his ...more
I like Colin MacKinnon’s writing style in The Contractor. There are so many threads that he weaves, but somehow they all come together. Even the threads about Rick Behringer's personal life–-his ex-wife and children, his girlfriend–-seemingly have no bearing on his professional life, but they define who he is. On the back of the book jacket, Publishers Weekly is quoted, "His [MacKinnon's] clipped prose style, descriptive discipline, and tone-perfect dialogue elevate this thriller above the
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Couldn't finish it--the writing style was really annoying
Took me FOREVER to get through. Just couldn't get into it.
Different writing style, hard to get into the story at first, but once I got past the first 50 pages or so, the suspense wouldn't allow me to put the book down.
Not as good as Body Of Lies. A bit unfocussed, divergent, at times.
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