Catherine Coulter is a great storyteller, but this is not Coulter's most gripping or polished story. She develops some interesting characters in the small town of Edgerton, but then leaves them behind as the action shifts to a rainforest, where her hero, FBI agent Mac MacDougal, and his FBI friends Savich and Sherlock battle bugs and a string of anonymous bad guys. When the story finally ends up back in Edgerton, the bad guys are all soon dead or behind bars, but we are left with lots of unanswered questions about what happened earlier. The answers are all provided in an expository lump in the epilogue in a letter to Mac from his sister--not as satisfying for the reader as having them revealed more gradually in the course of the story.

I would still recommend the book as entertaining on average, but not as good as other books she's written.

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