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Lights Out by Natalie Walters - Book Review

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  ABOUT THE BOOK CIA analyst Brynn Taylor developed a new program to combat terrorism, and she invited members of foreign intelligence agencies to America to foster cooperation between countries. Now one of them, Egyptian spy Remon Riad, is missing.   Jack Hudson has been working for the Strategic Neutralization and Protection Agency (SNAP) for almost nine years and takes the lead in hunting down the missing spy. But he isn't at all pleased to find out Brynn is involved. It's hard to trust a woman who's already betrayed you. MY BOOK REVIEW I have read a couple of Natalie Walters's novels. "Lights Out" is the first book of her new series. We are taken into Washington DC. It caused so many emotions in me. Brynn Taylor, a CIA analyst, is driven to help stop terrorism.  It is a big deal to her since her firefighter father of House 11 of FDNY was badly injured in 9/11.  A participant from Egypt comes up missing causing the intelligence community to go into high ale

The Gryphon Heist - Talia Inger Series Book 1 Book Review

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ABOUT THE BOOK (The Gryphon Heist Talia Inger #1)  Talia Inger is a rookie CIA case officer assigned not to the Moscow desk as she had hoped but to the forgotten backwaters of Eastern Europe--a department only known as "Other." When she is tasked with helping a young, charming Moldovan executive secure his designs for revolutionary defense technology, she figures she'll be back in DC within a few days. But that's before she knows where the designs are stored--and who's after them. With her shady civilian partner, Adam Tyler, Talia takes a deep dive into a world where only criminal minds and unlikely strategies will keep the Gryphon, a high-altitude data vault, hovering in the mesosphere. Even Tyler is more than he seems, and Talia begins to wonder: Is he helping her? Or using her access to CIA resources to pull off an epic heist for his own dark purposes? In this  Ocean's Eleven- meets -Mission Impossible  thriller, former tactical deception officer and