#READTHIS #TheKobaltDossier by #MoverandShaker #EricVanLustbader @EVanLustbader @MacmillanUSA
As previously disclosed in our other 27,000 posts, we have simple taste.
We like the best.
So, we read Evan Ryder by Mover and Shaker Eric Van Lustbader.
Superior to his competition, Van Lustbader brings back Evan in her first return and her "sophomore year" is not sophomoric at all. It is just as spectacular as its predecessor, previously reviewed and Highly Recommended. You'll be constantly gobsmacked at its sequential twists and turns which we shall not give away.
The characters are charismatic, always having Oreos in the house. As usual, the debate of good versus evil is front and center and big bad Russia is the antagonist. How timely! The bad guys remind us of Gargamel (Smurfs) and we hear his cackle in our head when we read about their shocking evildoing. Even a character named Blue Eyes is here but unlike the lovable Frank Sinatra and Alain Delon, this is a bad blue. And Scar and Star are a bit like Tweedledum and Tweedledee after drinking bad poison.
The Good Witch versus the Bad Witch in the Wizard of Oz is perhaps most relatable as the protagonists are women! Fabulous. About time, and we want that killer ring as a weapon with the crime the way it is now in New York (Ray Kelly we miss you more than ever RAY KELLY FOR MAYOR!).
You can't help but think of Carrie in Homeland when you "see" Evan and we love that she is a star aunt who is pro-Pooh bear. But that's fiction and we didn't review it; we DID review Litvinenko which is sadly NOT FICTION like Evan and Carrie. We wonder when the UK is going to play a role in this Evan series.
Is blood thicker than water? Who is your family? And on page 46 you can't help but think of The Beatles when you read "Paul is dead."
Van Lustbader excels at writing as a child, and the many perspectives of his characters to the central plot is brilliant as are the vivid, creative descriptions like "Charismatic Megafauna" (p. 223). For all Manhattanites, you will have scaffolding nightmares after reading page 98 and we suggest never walking under them anyway. Cross the street, silly!
The intelligent, high-level writing will captivate the pickiest of readers. If you didn't get 1600 on your SATs either you'll probably use your dictionary or google a bit. This book is the opposite of predictable. Oh but no one is perfect: there is one big error on page 183 it's WHOM she trusted.
The Nemesis Manifesto is Highly Recommended by Whom You Know.
Evan is coming back soon to Whom You Know; hold your horses.
The Kobalt Dossier
Evan Ryder is back in this stunning follow-up to The Nemesis Manifesto from New York Times bestselling author Eric Van Lustbader. After thwarting the violent, international, fascist syndicate known as Nemesis, Evan Ryder returns to Washington, D.C., to find her secret division of the DOD shut down and her deceased sister’s children missing. Now the target of a cabal of American billionaires who were among Nemesis’s supporters, Evan and her former boss, Ben Butler, must learn to work together as partners – and navigate their intricate past.
Their search will take them from Istanbul to Odessa to an ancient church deep within the Carpathian Mountains of Romania. And all along the way, an unimaginable enemy stalks in the shadows, an adversary whose secretive past will upend Evan’s entire world and everything she holds dear.
Eric Van Lustbader
ERIC VAN LUSTBADER is the author of many New York Times bestselling thrillers, including The Testament, First Daughter, Last Snow, and Blood Trust. Lustbader was chosen by Robert Ludlum's estate to continue the Jason Bourne series. He and his wife live on the South Fork of Long Island.
Twitter handle: @EVanLustbader
Facebook: www.facebook.com/eric.v.lustbader
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Evan Ryder series
· Omega Rules on our list to read
· The Quantum Solution coming soon
