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Panama is the first attempt at writing by author Eric Zencey. It has as its background the Panama Canal Scandal that France found itself dealing with at the end of the 19th
Century. The central character is historian Henry Adams, who travels to Paris at the request of then Presidential staff member John Hay. Bit by bit he gets drawn into a web
of bribery and murder, all centered around the collapse of the French Company formed to help build the Panama Canal. While the book is a little slow at the start, it
eventually gets going and was an enjoyable read. There is definitely potential to bring back Adams as the character for a series. I give this book 7 out of 10 stars.

I got this book for my father, who is a real fan of mysteries and thrillers. He said that it is a very good book that he read it twice.

A fuu-fleged murder mystery with huge fortunes mad and lost, bribery-and it seems- half the French government and the entanglement of a distinguished nineteenth-century American historian... Zencey creates a delicious tension between an educated sensibility and a world where real bullets fly and real blood flows. The result is masterful.

Very Good - Reminiscent of Caleb Carr's The Alienist.