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The Handler
The Handler | M.P. Woodward
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A disgraced former CIA operative must go back in the field with only his ex-wife as his handler in this electrifying thriller from a former intelligence officer. Meredith Morris-Dale is a CIA case officer and a damn good one...even if this last mission did go terribly wrong. Now she has been summoned back to Langley where she expects to be fired. Instead, she is met by the Deputy Director with stunning news. A single well-placed CIA mole in Iran’s uranium enrichment program has kept the terrorist nation from building a bomb by sabotaging the performance of their covert centrifuge arrays. But after losing his daughter in an airliner shootdown, the mole wants out—leaving the world on the brink. His one demand: a reunion with the only handler he ever trusted, John Dale—Meredith's disgraced, fired, wayward ex-husband. As Meredith and John struggle through their fraught relationship, a craven CIA political hierarchy, Russian interference, and the rogue spy’s manipulation, they must reach deep within their shared connection to maintain, recover, or kill the asset.
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This is the first novel in a new spy thriller series, written by a man who was a Naval Intelligence Officer. It is set in the world of the CIA and the real life concerns about Iran becoming a nuclear power. It is a fun, intense and sometimes violent story. I really enjoyed the two main characters, a CIA handler and her somewhat disgraced ex-husband. In spite of it feeling a bit on the long side, I do look forward to reading the sequel. 4/5!