PositiveThe Washington Independent Review of BooksPerhaps a sign of Grippando’s brilliance is that a reader’s thoughts do not necessarily remain within the confines of the plot ... loved this plotline, as its hypothesis guarantees a flurry of conjecture about how an elector could be influenced: Blackmail, intimidation, bribery…any of the possibilities could make foreign interference in our elections irrelevant ... While this thriller has all the necessary elements — including drug lords, torture, and assassins — plausibility suffered, for me, with the author’s depiction of the sinister, corrupt incumbent president, Malcolm MacLeod ... I started reading The Big Lie on a two-and-a-half-hour flight, and I was finished 48 hours later. The tension and twists might not measure up to my favorite authors — such as Sandford, Crais, Deaver, Dugoni, Gardner, and Coben — but the story was definitely entertaining.
