The "good" Americans do some fairly terrible things, up-close and personal, where the blood covers your clothes and you can feel the breathe from the screams against your skin. ![]() These can be fun but they can also be very dull. Many thrillers with this kind of premise are black and white affairs, with good Americans fighting to protect the American way of life from crazed fanatics from whatever group are currently at the top of the "We Hate America" list. What makes this into a Dana Stabenow thriller is the strong characters and the fully-immersive sense of place. "Blindfold Game"is a standalone thriller about a plot to bring harm to the US via the ports on its Alaskan coast.Īs a thriller, it works very well: there is a twisty plot, a real sense of threat, and an "I must read one more chapter" pace. Now that I've finished those twenty books and the four in the loosely associate Liam Campbell series, I've turned my attention to her other novels. I came to Dana Stabenow via her wonderful Kate Shugak series.
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