Give
Us This Day – A Brooke Burrell Thriller. Tom Avitabile. The Story Plant. October
2015. 350 pp. ISBN#: 9781611882095.
Brooke Burrell is tired and would like to step away from her FBI
Director role and retire to Hawaii with her husband Mush. But she also still has the fire in her belly
and is now quickly drawn into a devious plan in which certain high finance
leaders are funneling money into terrorist pockets for use in an act of
terrorism as yet unknown. What initially
comes to light is that there’s a leak somewhere in the group trying to find out
how the Prescott firm is involved in the financial side. Even Brooke is subject to temptation but
chooses otherwise. She seems to be one of the few who realize how many deaths
could result from the successful transfer of monies to these fundamentalist
Islamic groups.
Meanwhile violet acts are occurring at an increasingly alarming
rate. An art gallery explodes to the
point where there’s nothing left to analyze inside the non-existent
building. Several women who are involved
in passing funds are now romantically involved with some very, very dangerous
people. Even some of the criminals involved
in this carefully planned act of terrorism are being watched carefully as they
aren’t deemed as religiously committed as they should be.
Now the countdown toward disaster is moving forward far too
quickly but the terrorists have been sloppy and left behind evidence that only
someone of Brooke’s high caliber intelligence is able to find. The search is fraught with danger and even
ambivalent support from her Washington boss who suffers from a case of paranoia
about Brooke and the President who holds the power to decide everyone’s
future.
As the reader is now fast and furiously turning the pages, the
violence accelerates and many will die before Brooke’s discoveries bear
fruit. One extreme act will kill far too
many of Brooke’s team but her action will prevent something ten times worse
from occurring.
Give Us This Day… is an awesome thriller that will please
lovers of that genre and particularly of Tom Avitabile who never fails to
provide powerful, realistic scenarios reminiscent of the best spy or thriller novels. Highly recommended reading that again would
also make for a captivating movie!
