Secrets of the Kill by Lawrence Kelter --> Starting July 28th, 2020

[Aly]

Two governments-one objective, stop the spread of terrorism by any means possible. America and Israel, lifelong allies in an age-old war. To win this battle they will have to sell their souls. A mutilated body has been discovered; a body not meant to be found, but now that it has, Pandora's box is open and secrets never to be learned have been revealed. An Israeli woman living in New York has been murdered. She has been raped and butchered; an outrage that ignites a fuse that burns all the way back to Tel Aviv. Enter FBI Agent Chloe Mather, a hard-charging ex-Marine who has no sympathy for the kind of maggot who could commit such a violent atrocity. A veteran of the war in Afghanistan, she was one of the first woman Marines to be deployed into an active combat area. She struggles with PTSD and the consequences of a fatherless childhood, yet this is a woman who accepts no pity and operates according to a moral code that is second to none. She'll stop at nothing to find the psychopath responsible for this unspeakable crime. In Secrets of the Kill, Mather and this code will face the ultimate test. What begins as a challenging homicide becomes more, much more, and Mather is pulled into an investigation that involves the mob, Israeli intelligence, and a radical terrorist faction. They say that blood is thicker than water but is it thicker than the bonds of patriotism? Mather will ponder this question and many others as she fights to bring an innocent woman's murderer to justice, and prevent a geopolitical atrocity from taking place on American shores.

[Vicki]

There are 69 chapters, Jenny, so I'm going to just come back every 15-20 or every 25% approximately or wherever there is more of a natural break.

[Vicki]

Chapters 1-20

Wow...there are so many characters and acronyms used. I don't read too many books like this one.

(view spoiler)[The pilots getting sick was really scary, right? I can only imagine that feeling if you're on the plane when something like that happens. (hide spoiler)]

Elias (view spoiler)[good thing he'd been in the AIF and knew how to fly a plane, even if it had been a long time. (hide spoiler)]

Grace (view spoiler)[I don't care for her at all. But why does Chloe call her own mother by her first name? (hide spoiler)]

Rachel Rabin (view spoiler)[that poor woman! That was brutal. (hide spoiler)]

[Vicki]

Chapters 21-40

Some of the things in this section cracked me up: (view spoiler)[Goose shit...penis pump...serial # on breast implant (really?), cigar as a phallic symbol. (hide spoiler)]

Cash (view spoiler)[I'm wondering just who Cash is...I'm not so sure he is really "Cash." Didn't that accident happen so conveniently? (hide spoiler)]

Andrea Bocelli - I love him!

Tommy Linuzzi (view spoiler)[ I was surprised that copped to it that Soto killed Rachel and he gave all the gory details! Guess it didn't help him, huh? I'm really curious who did it. (hide spoiler)]

Lorraine (view spoiler)[It's a good thing they're going to put her in a witness protection program. (hide spoiler)]

[Vicki]

Finished

Oh my gosh, I didn't post 2 days ago when I finished and I couldn't even remember what this was about until I came back her and looked at my comments. lol

Overall I liked the book, but I'm not very good with books like this...terrorism with unable to pronounce names, undercover or espionage, and 101 names! lol

I was glad that Ari (I think that was his name) (view spoiler)[is the one who got revenge and killed both guys for what they did to Rachel. I hadn't thought of it being a brother but that worked for me. (hide spoiler)]

I was surprised to see all of the (view spoiler)[religious elements toward the end of the book too. (hide spoiler)]