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Book Review of A Most Wanted Man

A Most Wanted Man
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Helpful Score: 4


The plot of this book involves the efforts undertaken by various European agencies to track and arrest Middle Eastern terrorists. The characters are interesting -- a prominent banker, a liberal attorney dedicated to protecting the rights of suspected terrorists, and of course, a possible terrorist (but no one knows for sure), a well-intentioned Muslim family attempting to get citizenship, the leaders and strategists of several anti-terror organizations.
These characters and their interactions and intersections flesh out the quandries faced by private citizens and agencies in tracking and identifying terrorists, and occassionally how distrustful the agencies are of each other. Ultimately, how one individual may pay a price surfaces as the end result of these intrigues.