Monday, February 8, 2021

The Rhythm Section

Keith Proctor has approached a prostitute by the name of Lisa.  When he calls her Stephanie Patrick, he ends up getting beaten.  The following day he speaks to her again.  This time he mentions the fact that she had lost her parents and two siblings when a plane crashed in the Atlantic.  He also tells her that it was no accident.


And so begins the narrative of Stephanie Patrick.  At twenty-two, she was a hardened woman.  An incident with a john, forces her to run from her pimp, and turn to Proctor for help.


Once she is with him, she turns reluctant to stay, even after he outlines what he knows about the crash that killed her family.  The man who had put the bomb on the flight is living in London.  He doesn’t know who it is, but an agent with MI5 has provided him with information.  Can she trust Proctor?  Can he trust her?


After recovering from a bout of flu, Stephanie studies the material Proctor has available.  She begins to trust him, but one evening she’s upset by him and leaves his flat.  When she returns, she finds him dead and the flat tossed.  She grabs his hidden laptop and floppy disks and makes a run for it.  She then sets to work.


All her plans are for nought when she is intercepted as she is about to put her plans into play.  She is then disappeared and re-made.


What ensues is a fantastic story, a real thriller.  You will find it very hard to put this book down!  Top notch!  Author Mark Burnell has hit it out of the park with this thriller; I can hardly wait to get my hands on the sequels.


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