A covert operative is ready for a new life outside of international espionage. But her enemies are far from willing to let her go…
She spied for her country, blackmailed her president, and ran from more threats than she can remember. But when the love of her life proposes, covert agent Cassandra Sashakovich is finally ready to settle down. Unfortunately her past is not quite ready to let her … let her walk away.
Old enemies—including a vengeful president—want her dead, and they’re willing to attack her loved ones, including her adopted teenage daughter, if that’s what it takes.
But Cassandra has other pressing problems—a world leader is assassinated and an arm dealer’s revenge threatens to lead to nuclear war. Now Cassandra and her security firm, Swiftshadow must defuse the threats and find a way to outmaneuver those who threaten not only her family, but her country as well.
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This is book five of the Spies Lie series and sees covert operative Cass (Cassandra) Sashakovich trying to change future and have a life outside of the espionage world and for a bit of normality, but she has made a lot of enemies and they aren’t willing to let her go free. She has been looking into this for months after having to blackmail the president to help keep her new company Swiftshadow safe, spied for her country and been an assassin of some note. But now she has her boyfriend Lee and her adopted daughter Ann for her own family and she wants them to be safe. When Lee proposes, Cass has to find a safe location and new identities for all of them. She can no longer just go off on her own. She has others in her life and they depend upon her now.
Her former boss and the ex-president want her dead, but there are those in the company who think this demand for revenge goes a bit too far, especially when an innocent sixteen year old girl is being targeted for killing, simply due to her being close to Cass and part of her new family. Even a simple out of the way wedding ceremony cannot be carried out in peace and tranquillity. People are coming after her and that means loved ones are in danger and some will die! Ann has her own trials, as she is put before a judge for killing a man who was about to slit Cassie’s throat when she was in hospital for another attack on her life. Some want her taken to trial and found guilty of killing the assassin and sent to jail. It seems every assassin and killer has a family member left behind, who want revenge on Ann, Cassie and even Lee.
A huge plot is being put underway and Swiftshadow are trying to work out who is behind it and why one of their foes, Gilbert Greenfield, is shorting lots of important US stocks. What does he know is going to happen and how? Wing wants Cass and her daughter Ann to help with their hacking efforts to uncover who is behind everything and what Mastoff has been using the programme SafePay for and what he wants with the Russian Mafiya. Ann has turned out to be a savant at hacking, with little to no training by Wing, when asked to teach her some computer basics to keep herself safe! Cass and her family are hiding in plain sight, running a restaurant under false names, but now her former life is intruding again and nothing can remain the same.
A new president, just as corrupt and power hungry as the former one, wants to change America to ensure only one religion is in use and to destroy all others. Swiftshadow need to find out what his plans are and Bug-Lock transcripts will give them the clues to a possible nuclear war, that needs to be stopped before all-out war begins and no one can recover. It seems the only way to trace where all the clues are going, is to follow the trail of the baksheesh, the bribes and payoffs that were made from all involved, and find their ultimate destinations. If they can do this, hopefully they will finally know all the details of the plot which is happening soon and put a stop to it! A large number of suitcase nukes have been sold off and are in the hands of someone wanting to destroy the religious hubs of the Middle East.
An exciting new life for Cassie and her family, as financial records need hacking and payoffs followed, she opens a family restaurant, and a global nuclear war is in the works, set up between the Russian Mafiya and corrupt US Presidents. Never mind all the attempts on her and her loved ones lives. Lots of action all around the world, with fancy spy gadgets, loved the flies, and hacking competiveness ramped up to the nth degree. Money being traced and stolen from the bad guys in the name of good. Loads of intriguing spycraft and some determined characters to watch along the way. Cassie and even Ann are showing themselves to be determined people, facing hard choices, but working for the good of their family. A good read for those who love spy stories, made into the modern world and also a thriller with world changing consequences. I received an ARC copy of this book from BookSprout and I have freely given my own opinion of the book above.
This is the first book I have read by this author and it certainly won’t be my last. It is the fifth book in the Spies Lies series, and if this book is any indication, then I have been missing out on an awesome series! Danger, excitement, and suspense are all the name of the game in this exciting spy thriller. It kept me on the edge of my seat pretty much throughout the whole book – a definite page-turner for sure! There were many great plot twists throughout that I was anxiously turning the pages to see what would happen next. Great characters, well-developed, that really pull you in to the story. This was a really great read and I will definitely try something from this author again.
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This fifth book in the Spies Lie Series by DS Kane certainly put the main characters: Cassie, Lee, Ann and Shimmel through their paces as they struggle to not only stay alive but also stop catastrophic events from happening that could affect the entire world in a thoroughly entertaining and enjoyable read. Throughout this series, I have had a somewhat difficult time keeping the Israeli activity titles straight, so I really like that the author not only put them in a list with definitions but also did the same thing with all the many many characters involved in the story. I am already looking forward to adding book 6 to my TBR file. This is a voluntary review of this book.