Here we go again with Michelle Reagan, code name Eden, and her adventures. This time, the secret agent of the CIA has to deal with the kidnapping of the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency while he’s travelling with his wife back home. When someone hijacks the flight where the Director is travelling, a task force to investigate the incident is set up. The entire entourage of the Agency is set on the only task to find the missing Director, but the abductor(s) were very good at deleting all evidence of where they took him and his wife. Surprisingly to her, Eden is asked to lead the team to free the Director when finally the task force is able to identify his and his wife location, after a month of search, an elite team of US Navy SEALs. But her job doesn’t end there. If something goes wrong with the rescuing she will have to carry Directive One.
Directive One by Scott Shinberg is another instalment of the Michelle Reagan series and I loved this one even more than the first. This novel, unlike the previous one, doesn’t use first-person POV, which is not my favourite and was rather jarring. Still, I liked that book though. In this case, the novel is written by a fluid narration with an omniscient POV. And the story leaps, the reader can fly with their imagination with this professional secret agent. As an old fan of Robert Ludlum and Len Deighton, discovered in my teens, I still enjoy reading spy stories, although they all have that taste of the impossible at some point or another when one wonders why there are no major consequences at a global level due to these secret agents ‘ actions. After all, it’s fiction and it still makes me wonder what part it is could be true and whatnot about these stories. I guess I’ll never know.
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