When a high-stakes heist goes wrong, an ex-CIA operative and a special operations pilot find themselves in the middle of a game of espionage and survival as they navigate a treacherous web of deception and shifting loyalties.
Comes dressed as a thriller ... Ackerman gives them snappy dialogue and hairbreadth escapes, there’s little swashbuckling spirit among the two ... Thrives in exposing the moral uncertainty of this new world order ... Ackerman means to say that blithely accepting an easily heroic action-movie story would be the greater cynicism. And he leaves plenty of room for a sequel.
Lively ... Ackerman shepherds his cast through a brisk and occasionally implausible plot. Though his tone is light, he regularly reminds the reader of the lifelong shadow war casts on the men who fight.
