Mark Beamon has been an unconventional FBI agent ever sincehe joined. He has spent years putting the truth ahead of everything else and this has resulted in his getting a dead end job with the FBI in Phoenix. A brand new terrorist threatthough is about to bring him back. A videotape proves that aterrorist cell in the U.S. has access to modern missile tech-nology. The FBI also suspects that there is a connection between the mob and the fanatics so they sent Beamon and another agent undercover. When the other agent is murderedBeamon's attempts to trace the man who fingered them leadsto an international criminal conspiracy that may have rootsin the U.S. government. Events unfold and plunge him into ariver of deceit and he is forced to ask himself a question.What makes a crime a crime. This is an older book by Kyle Mills from about 2002but it's good one and a real pageturner
Kyle Mills has made a lot of cash on Tom Clancy calling him a promising writer. I've now read three or four of his books, and he's getting progressively worse. I like his FBI agent, Mark Beamon, and this book is at its best when it is about him and a shady global crime boss. The first 50 to 100 pages are terrible, and I almost tossed this one aside, something I've only learned to do with books in the past couple of years. The last 350 pages are worth it only if you go for the sort of yarn where a character goes outside the law because it's actually for the higher good. Once in a while, it's a nice fantasy. Like Clancy's book with the backstory of how Jack Ryan's buddy Clark became a CIA officer with a license to kill.
With a subtle but great sense of humor, Mills weaves a story of organized crime vs the CIA/FBI. Mark Beamon is a very smart man. How could someone so smart be so miserable in his new promotion as FBI SAC (agent in charge)? A rocket launcher finds it's way into the US. Mark's friend, Laura Vilechi has been given the responsibility to track it down and eliminate the problem, but she's running into one dead end after another. When she runs various scenarios by Mark, little does she or he know that divulging this information to him will change the future for both of them. When Mark goes undercover for just one scenario, it leads to an endless maze.
—Marilyn
One of a series featuring the character, Marc Beamon. While the timeline of the books is sequential, each book is its own story so you don't necessarily have to read them in order. The character ages from book to book and he makes vague references to the cases that each book covered but, other than that, you can read them in any order. This is the last, sniff(hopefully not), book in the Marc Beamon series. I have read this book 4 times. It's great! I would recommend this book to anyone who can read and isn't offended by mild profanity, some f-bombs but nothing gratuitous.
—Kevin Fitch
