The Gatekeeper (A Kelly Jones Novel, 3)

Besides being her 3rd awesome book Michelle threw one of the biggest cliffhangers ever, left me rereading and rereading to see if I missed something somewhere's in the chapter, no author that I have read have ever done one the way she did. Can't wait for the next one REALLY!!!! Way to go Michelle!!"

I love this book! Its always at true test for me if I can get into the book early on and with this one I absolutely did. The character development keeps me wondering and its a fast paced, well written book. Cant wait to read her others!

The Gatekeeper opens with Madison Grant, a 16-year-old girl who's met a man on the Internet, who she's flying out to meet. Before she knows it, she's been kidnapped and is being held prisoner. So her dad, Randall, calls up an old friend, Syd, who's just opened a new company called The Longhorn Group, which deals with kidnap and ransom. Syd's partner, Jake, gets started on trying to locate Madison and extricate her before the kidnappers kill her. Meanwhile, Jake's fiance, Kelly, who works for the FBI, has been assigned a case that involves the brutal murder of a senator. HER case takes her to all these hate groups, and eventually Jake and Kelly find that their cases might be connected. This book was exactly what I wanted. It had the perfect amount of setup (read: not the whole book) with more scenes that left my heart racing than I could have hoped for. I loved that at least three times I double checked the page count because she was wrapping up things I didn't expect to be wrapped up until the end of the book. I'm oftentimes put off by love stories within mysteries. If I wanted a love story, I'd read another kind of book. But Kelly and Jake's relationship is so real, and just when I was like, Oh, I see where she's going with this, Gagnon surprised me. Gagnon really has a knack for characters, and I'd like to see future books feature Syd, and delve more into Syd's motivations and intentions. My only squabble with this book was that the person who calls himself "the gatekeeper" was never actually called "the gatekeeper". It's possible I missed the reference, though. I know this is silly, but I loved her Author's Note at the end. Having a great author's note is like finding one more M & M in a bag of M & Ms that you thought was empty. It's like, "Oh! I'm not quite done yet!" Yes, I want to know who helped you. I want to know who answered your questions, who your awesome agent is; I want to know all of that. It's not like I know those people, it's just...satisfying. But best of all? I loved where she went in the ending.

FBI Special Agent Kelly Jones is part of an investigative team looking into the brutal murder US Senator Duke Morris. The prevalent theory to the motive for such butchery is that his death is tied to Morris' highly visible role in ending illegal immigrants crossing into the United States; a warning of sorts to back off or else. Kelly's fiancé former agent Jake Riley agrees to help the boyfriend of a co-worker. Someone abducted Randall Grant's sixteen year old daughter, Madison.. The kidnappers' demands are shocking and unacceptable; Jake needs to rescue the teen soonest or all hell will break out, Soon these obviously separate cases collide in a frightening domestic convergence at a mystical being the Gatekeeper who somehow has united the most despicable violent hate groups in America preparing them for the third American Revolution. The third Jones FBI thriller (see Boneyard and The Tunnel) is a super action-packed tale that occurs in a pulse pumping short time frame of June 25 through July 4. Ironically for most of the time, the lead pair works on separate nasty investigations until they connect when it seems too late. Set aside time as this one grips you from start to finish with two incredible unexpected twists as Michelle Gagnon makes the Pogo case: "We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us". Harriet Klausner

The kidnapping of sixteen year old Madison Grant draws Special Agent Kelly Jones's fiance Jack Riley into a case tied to an unthinkable terrorist plot with an unthinkable ransom, a ransom that demands a father choose between his daughter and his country. Meanwhile, the FBI assigns Kelly to the case of the murder and dismemberment of a senator. As Kelly tracks down the clues to this crime, she investigates the fanatical fringes of American society who might resort to murder rather than the political process to achieve their goals. More terrifying than any one fanatical group itself, she unveils the mysterious figure of The Gatekeeper, an anonymous but powerful force uniting the hate groups towards one common goal in one of the worst domestic terrorist attacks on American soil. At first, the two cases seem disconnected but could they be related? Will Jack and Kelly uncover the culprit and the plot before it is too late or will the case lead them into perils from which they might never recover? Michelle Gagnon's new thriller THE GATEKEEPER chills the reader with an all too plausible scenario of the enemy within now united, of a blind patriotism turned so fanatical that it will stop at nothing to achieve its goals, a goal even more horrifying than the means itself. Seemingly isolated events become more ominous as the links between them are uncovered, but even more terrifying is the twisted mind manipulating these fringe groups. The kidnapping plot itself magnifies the horror of the plan as Michelle Gagnon turns her vision from the broader look at hate politics to the dilemma and emotions faced by Madison's father. By detailing these human moments, Michelle Gagnon unmasks the twistedness of political obsession, an obsession that seeks to destroy what it claims to value. Michelle Gagnon's THE GATEKEEPER is a page-turning thriller that speeds up to an action-packed shocking ending. She takes Kelly into the most dangerous case she has faced to date. Readers of the Kelly Jones series will discover even more development of Kelly Jones as a character. Her relationship to both Jack and the FBI receives more attention here, building up the depth of her character for hopefully more development in future novels. Michelle Gagnon's thriller achieves its goal in part due to recent headlines. Set against the backdrop of the escalation of the divisive political volume in this country over recent years, THE GATEKEEPER is frighteningly realistic although her novel does not make use of any real life political personalities. The more independent or introspective type of reader might find THE GATEKEEPER even more chilling as one reflects on one's own political positions while uncovering the terrifying nature of the Gatekeeper, a force more deadly than any individual group or political persuasion, a force that turns one against oneself. What distinguishes THE GATEKEEPER, however, is the developing portrait of Special Agent Kelly Jones. Tough, determined