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Black Friday
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Start date
July 1, 2016
Finish date
July 31, 2016
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Jonetta

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Jonetta
It's the day after Thanksgiving and a bomb has gone off at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. Maggie O'Dell's interim assistant director demands that she join him on the case as they, along with the deputy director of Homeland Security, work with local law enforcement to find the perpetrators.

This story had a great premise and showed a lot of promise in the beginning. It kept me hooked through a lot of the story, more than halfway. Unfortunately, it was again plagued with the tireso
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Robin
Jul 08, 2016 rated it really liked it
Shelves: 2016, suspense
Americans are rushing to the Mall of America on the Nation's biggest shopping day of the year. No one expects three deadly bombs to be detonated inside that mall. FBI Profiler Maggie O'Dell is called to the scene to construct a profile of the bombers. Why would three young men each carry a red backpack with a lock into the mall? Who were the young man and woman seen on the security tapes entering the mall with one of the bombers? Maggie has her work cut out for her to discover the motive behind ...more
Lauren
Black Friday
3 Stars

Synopsis
Black Friday, the busiest shopping day in America, and three young men are about to wreak havoc by detonating an EMP pulse in the Mall of America. Unbeknownst to them, they are actually pawns in a much larger and deadlier conspiracy that will leave dozens dead and FBI profiler, Maggie O'Dell in a race against time to prevent an even more catastrophic terror attack.

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A good premise but the execution is poor and the finale does not deliver.

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Kris (My Novelesque Life)
2.5 STARS

"On the busiest shopping day of the year, idealistic students wade into malls across America carrying concealed devices they believe will cause chaos at the checkouts. But at the nation's largest shopping center, the results are incendiary - and people lie dead. A white-collar lobby group called Citizens for American Pride takes responsibility for the protest action, calling for an end to cheap, foreign-made goods and exported manufacturing jobs. But they insist the bombing was the wor
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Charlene
Reading with a group. This series might fall to the bottom of the pile for me or be dumped soon. This still had no work done by the profiler, seemed called in by author. Three stars is a generous rating for this one, sad to say.
Cat
Apr 13, 2011 rated it it was amazing
Anita
Jul 08, 2013 marked it as to-read
Shelves: kindle-own
Tiffunee
Sep 19, 2013 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Oct 16, 2015 marked it as to-read
Katherine Couch
Dec 16, 2016 rated it it was amazing
Melissa
Oct 18, 2015 marked it as to-read
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Jan 10, 2016 marked it as to-read
Karen
Oct 08, 2016 marked it as to-read
Shelves: gr-group-reads
Joi
Feb 01, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Renee
Oct 30, 2018 marked it as to-read
CrazyCat (Alex)
Jan 07, 2019 marked it as to-read
iasa
Oct 26, 2023 rated it it was ok
Shelves: fiction
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