After the loss of her husband, CIA agent Isabella Bendel accepts a promotion to Chief Supervisor—a much less dangerous position than what she’s accustomed to—so she can raise her two children without fear of leaving her children without any parents. But any illusions of safety are shattered when, while on her Sunday morning jog in a Washington, DC park, Isabella survives a brutal assassination … attempt. She hauls her assailant into CIA headquarters, confident she can get to the bottom of why he was after her. Her blood runs cold when she learns the truth… as he was trying to take her out, armed terrorists abducted her children and mother right out of her home. Pushed to the brink of what any mother can endure, Isabella calls on all of her training and deadly skills to get her family back. During this mission, she fights her way through assassins, cyber-terrorists, and duplicitous fellow agents, leading her to uncover a Russian threat that is hell-bent on destroying the United States.
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Powerful, supercharged realistic and
explosive thriller!!
CIA agent Isabella Bendel has just been
promoted to the Chief Supervisor. She is
a highly trained field agent who is now in
cyber intelligence. She thought this would
be a safer position for her and her family.
Since her husband, a former CIA field agent,
has died leaving Isabelle to be a single
mom raising a set of young twins with
the help of her mother who had been an
ex-codebreaker for the CIA in her
pre-retirement years.
Someone tries to kill Isabella. She captures
him then takes the man to CIA Headquarters
for questioning. Leaving the room for a short
period, what a surprise to learn the man is
dead.
Meanwhile her children and her mother are
kidnapped right from her home by armed
assailants.
When the second attempt is made on Isabella’s
life, she faces the reality that there is a mole
in her department.
But who is trying to eliminate her and why??
This is a power packed psychological thriller
with deadly intrigue, drama and suspense.
Someone is trying to destroy American but
who, why and how soon is this to happen??
The action adventure is heightened to
mountainous proportions with plenty of thrills,
chills, twists and turns.
This story with it’s well defined, colorful, realistic
and dangerous characters is so well written
you will feel as if you are right there sharing
in this fast paced, high tension adventure.
This book is so well written that it will chill
your blood. The reader will feel the terrorizing
and horrifying events along with the characters.
A Highly Recommended Read!!!
I volunteered to read Countdown America.
Thanks to the author and publisher via the Cozy
Review Crew for the opportunity. My opinion is
voluntary and my own.
Countdown America by M.C. Fox is a compelling and exhilarating thriller of the first water. Although seemingly unrealistic, it’s hard to know as our government is transparent only when it suits them. Isabella has recently been promoted to supervisor of a division in the CIA. She has come up through the ranks and is very good at her job. She lives with her mother and her young twins, her husband having succumbed to cancer a few years earlier. After a personal attack and a subtle threat against her family she rushes home to find they have been taken. What the heck is going on? Why is she being targeted? Can she get them back and find the perpetrators? Too many questions. Things are moving too quickly.
Probably the biggest thing to give me pause in Countdown America is how many foreign agents have infiltrated the CIA ant high levels. Surely that is not accurate? The reader discovers them right along with Isabella, with only minor foreshadowing. It was a well put-together plot at was meticulous in the way it unfolded. Isabella was a compelling character, as was her mother. Never-say-die women with singular focus and creativity. It contained violence but did not dwell on it or overly describe it, a fact I appreciated. Not normally my kind of book, Countdown America held my attention, and often had me holding my breath, as well. I recommend it as outstanding in its genre and well as a welcome break of readers of other genres.
I received a free ARC of Countdown America through the Mystery Review Crew in exchange for a fair and honest review. All opinions and interpretations contained herein are solely my own.
I like mysteries and I like thrillers—this book is a good combination of the two. I’ve always been drawn to books dealing with spies and national security, and this really satisfies. The main characters are likable, strong and resourceful. This book was a quick read and hard to put down once it got going. The writing is excellent, the plot intricate, and the resolution plausible. I highly recommend this book and I’d like to read more by this author. I was provided a copy of this book, but these opinions are my own.
Wow! This book grabs you from the beginning and does not let go until the final page. Main character Isabella is a CIA supervisor who is drawn into a crazy web of intrigue and suspense. The reader is drawn in right along with her! Isabella is a strong, capable character, while still managing to remain human and likeable. She seems like someone you’d enjoy spending a pleasant afternoon with, and also someone you’d want around if you were in any kind of danger. Isabella’s mother is also a wonderful, strong female character, and I enjoyed her part of the story as well.
The plot was amazing! There was so much going on, and pretty much all of it was intense. Yet it never seemed like too much…everything that happened needed to happen, and made perfect sense as part of the overall story.
I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys suspense, thrillers, and strong female characters. Just don’t pick it up until you have some time to devote to it, because it was VERY hard to put down once I started. If you’re an action/adventure fan, you can’t go wrong with this one!