Washington Power Play: A Political Thriller. Allan Topol. SelectBooks,
Inc.. May 2017. 320 pp. ISBN #: 9781590794258.
China
is planning a New World Order! A new name for a new attempt to take over both
Asia and the United States. Kelly
Cameron, an FBI agent, has just completed a mission that is taken by her
superiors to be both a success and a failure, a success in that she was able to
stop a terrorist from committing mayhem and murder and a failure in that her
killing the terrorist prevented her superiors from interviewing him to discover
valuable information. So is her sudden
promotion to join a task force to find a government mole a true reward or
something worse?
Kelly’s
first task is to get up to speed on China, especially after a sudden attack on
Japanese planes by Chinese jets. Her
first connection is with a powerful American lawyer, Andrew Martin, a man who, unknown
to Kelly, has questionable ties with China as a delivery boy for secret
messages to a Chinese diplomat. Then
there’s Xiang Shen, a former lover, who appears and supposedly wants to
reignite their powerful connection.
Kelly’s not buying! And Xiang has
no choice but continue to pursue in order to guarantee his family’s safety back
in China. A dilemma indeed!
And
what about the head of the task force, General Darrell Cartwright, who
desperately wants to run for President of the United States? He’s not happy with several members of the
task force and these snippy debates between the parties which are stopped one
step away from being outright combat.
This seems a bit out of proportion to their task which is a clue that
indeed something is rotten in Denmark.
Allan Topol knows how to ramp up the tension from the very first page. Although the reader thinks he or she knows where this is going, that’s not quite the obvious plot! Kelly will risk death, be faced with action to save her kidnapped daughter, and discover there are more disloyal characters than one mole than she ever imagined.
Washington Power Play… is a fine political thriller with plenty
of passion, debate, threats of violence and actual physical combat to keep the
reader flipping the pages of this fast-paced, international power play
plot! Nicely done, Allan Topol, and
definitely recommended reading!
