From the author of Bloodridge comes another spy thriller,
this time featuring Cassandra Sashakovich who is recruited
by an American intelligence department after her fiancé
doesn't return from Afghanistan. Already globetrotting in
a top economics business job, Cassandra makes an
effortless
transition. SWIFTSHADOW takes up the story two years
later.
Combining her specialty with some hacking, Cassandra has
become expert at deleting bank transactions and crossing
borders on fake passports. Flitting from Pakistan to
Saudi
Arabia, she removes money from the accounts of terrorist
organisations. She's been told that she'll never be in
physical danger, but obviously it's worth someone's while
to track her down, and Cassandra comes within an inch of
losing her life, saved only by her quick wits and
strength.
Now she has to escape from surveillance and make it
home...
if she can. And will she ever be safe again?
Considerable violence against women features, so at times
I
found it a challenging read, but agent Swiftshadow can
fight back when required. I was early wondering why she
had to be in a Middle East country to access its bank; the
explanation given is that some banks there are not
connected to the world's networks. Raised in a Russian-
American household and now lacking friends, we see
Cassandra alone a lot, so we have to follow her thoughts
rather than her conversations for explanations. When we
meet her superiors we learn that among the secrets kept
from her, is that her supposed flu injection was a
chemical
designed to react with a truth drug to kill her.
Sometimes
it's hard to be sure whose side are the good guys.
If you want to learn about counterfeiting, stealing from
banks, hacking through firewalls, evading capture,
breaking
and entering, living on the run for months, this hard-
hitting novel will take you there and back. The
admirable
heroine is forced to abandon her feminine side in order to
survive, and has no hope of a normal love life. She's not
some superhuman; she's a smart woman who is severely
damaged by what used to be her job. Handle SWIFTSHADOW
with
care, then. Author DS Kane himself worked in the covert
intelligence field for over a decade, and has had plenty
of
work published in the area of hacking protection and bank
security. This riveting read is his third thriller in
the Spies Lie series. They form a must-read series
for
conspiracy theory fans.
A spy's cover is
blown and she is fired from her agency. To survive, she
must fight for her life
against terrorists and work to uncover a mole...
When Cassandra Sashakovich, a bright but arrogant
economist
and consultant, is in Riyadh completing a financial
forecasting assignment, her
cover is blown by a mole from her intelligence agency. A
covert agent whose
call sign is "Swiftshadow," she barely survives an
encounter with a
hit man and escapes to Washington, where she is fired by
her agency for
becoming a liability.
On her own and with her cover blown, Cassie finds herself
in
the crosshairs of terrorists, who fear she may have hacked
the details of their
pending operation. To survive and recover her life, Cassie
must identify the
mole in her agency and neutralize the terrorists. To do
this, Cassie finds help
from two unlikely sources, a rogue agent, Lee Ainsley, and
a homeless teen
named Ann Silbee.
Cassie desperately races against the clock to expose plots
by both her own government and the terrorists, so that she
can recapture her
life and save her country. Can Cassie find a way to
survive and avoid being a
naïve tool of her country again or will death find not
only Cassie, but
millions of Americans?
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