Kenneth S. reviewed on 10/28/2020

This is a really fun thriller by novelist Evan Hunter, using the pen name John Abbott. Although the book was written several years ago it has a modern, up to date feel, featuring a plot that involves a Libyan terrorist group that plans to assassinate the first president Bush. Oddly enough, the tone of the novel is slightly humorous and the characters are an assortment of oddballs and misfits who blunder around, trying to do something serious. There's the assassin, who really is a dangerous individual and the UCLA coed who gets a crush on him and becomes a pawn in his deadly game.

When law enforcement gets into the act the story picks up the pace and reads like one of Hunter's excellent 87th precinct novels that he wrote under the name Ed McBain. The ending has a wonderful twist and the whole book certainly can hold its own with any contemporary thriller.

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