The Traitor:

Another boomer from Stephen Coonts. He proves that Jake Grafton can play a great commanding/supporting role as well as the action hero. Tommy Carmenelli continues to develop as a serious character. This book is well edited as well. I could find none of the technical or grammatical glitches so common in otherwise good books today. It's good quality literature and some excitement for the money.

Knowing that you have to read in order to write, I find Stephen Coonts writing superb. His command of military structure and knowledge of world events that he weaves into his narration has no equal. The Traitor is the kind of novel that takes you into the back alleys of Europe. No one does this type of adventure better than Coonts. The two things I like best about the book are the characters and the settings. Mr. Coonts has the uncanny ability to shape and weave a character into a plot that seamlessly holds your interest as you turn page after page. I usually find his books too short, even though the publisher would usually have him cut the pages. The settings of Europe can't help but draw one into the story. One of the things I like most about Mr. Coonts books are the absolute honesty of Jake Grafton and his other characters. They stand for what they believe in which seems to be in short supply today. I find books like this far more refreshing than the Da Vinci Code with its secrets and made up plots. A great read. TS Ferguson, Author of Apocrypha

Though I miss the days of the Grafton novels, Carmellini is an easy character to enjoy. Great read with some minor plot deficiencies.

An international thriller by Stephen Coonts deserves an exceptional narration and that is precisely what film and television actor Dennis Boutsikaris provides. At times gruff, at other times forbidding, he always imbues his characters with a defining vocal twist. As Coonts fans know and appreciate this author wastes no time in hooking readers/listeners attention. This time it's with the death of a French intelligence agent on an Air France flight to Amman, Jordan. Such an untimely demise leads Jake Grafton, now CIA operations officer in charge of Europe to suspect that the director of French intelligence has a spy planted among top Al Queda. Does the French director vehemently deny this? Of course, he does. There's only one person Grafton can rely on in a life and death situation, and it's Tommy Carmellini. Seems that would be an intrepid duo and that they are. But it takes more than strength and intelligence to figure out who is spying on whom and what may happen when the leaders of the G-8 nations meet in Paris. It's especially difficult to find the truth when their lives are in danger. Another topnotch thriller from Coonts and aces performance by Boutsikaris. - Gail Cooke

Maurice Marton,a French government official has a heart attack om a jet and dies.Mossad is able to obtain paperwork that Marton is carrying.This paperwork shows that the chief of French(DSGE) intelligence Henri Rodet has made a sizeable investment in the Bank of Palestine.It is also believed that Rodet has a secret source in Al-Queda.He does not want to share this source with the United States.The Americans decide to get to the bottom of this situation. Tommy Carmellina is assigned to Paris to check this situation out.He is reunited with his old flame Sarah Houston.He is also joined on this trip by Willie Warner(Willie The Wire).He also discovers the his old boss Jake Grafton is the CIA operations officer in charge of Europe. Rodet's source,Abu Qasim from Algeria,is a lifetime friend of Rodet.It is now up to Grafton and Carmellini to get to the bottom of this conspiracy.The leaders of the G-8 industrial powerhouses are due to meet in Oaris.Grafton fear a terrorist assassination attempt.It is up to our heros to figure out who the bad guys really are and put a stop to the evil plan.You will also be surprised to learn the true identies of the forces of evil. This turned out to be a very exciting readable book.