From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter comes the heart-stopping twenty-first installment in the electrifying FBI Thriller series.After Agent Dillon Savich stops a crazy man from harming a pregnant woman, the man unexpectedly falls into a coma. Doctors discover a drug in his blood they can’t identify, and his only identification is a yellow wristband marked E 2. Did this John Doe … Did this John Doe escape from a mental hospital? And why was he at the pregnant woman’s house? When her newborn baby is kidnapped from the hospital, Savich realizes there’s a connection between the kidnapping and the unconscious John Doe. DNA tests uncover a startling fact: his cells are unlike any other—he’s an Enigma.
Savich, Sherlock, and an FBI team of experts must find the kidnapped baby, uncover the link, and determine what bizarre drug was used on John Doe and, most importantly, why.
Meanwhile, Liam Hennessey, aka Manta Ray, a convicted bank robber, escapes from the Federal Marshals on his transport to a federal penitentiary. He and his “handlers” are seen going into the Daniel Boone National Forest. Savich sends Agents Cam Wittier and Jack Cabot after them.
Why break out this violent criminal? Or did the safe deposit box he stole and hid before he was captured contain something critically dangerous to somone? Wittier and Cabot are in hot pursuit. What they discover turns the case sideways.
Coulter’s latest dual-plot thriller will keep you guessing as Savich, Sherlock, Cabot, and Wittier uncover surprise after surprise in this race against the clock until the shocking conclusions.
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Love Coulter
I love these FBI books!
Another of the savage FBI books. As usual, great fast paced action with great plot twists.
I like all the Sherlock & Savich books by Catherine Coulter – this was no exception.
First Coulter book I’ve read!!! Really enjoyed it!!!!! Recommend to mystery lovers!
I am fan of her books but was disappointed in this one.
Coulter’s FBI series always grabs me at the end. Enigma is separate FBI investigations that slowly and brilliantly blend into one. Series favorites Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock take the lead on the first of the investigations which begins when Savich receives a telephone call from a family friend about a man breaking into the house next door to her who is yelling and acting in a threatening manner. Slowly storyline after storyline is added beginning with the mystery of why the man is now in a coma and is wearing a hospital type bracelet with E 2. Each subsequent storyline is added seamlessly bringing back agents and members from local police agencies we have met in past books to head up the separate investigations. The stories all meet seamlessly at the “you will not be disappointed ending”. My mouth hung open because even though I guessed some parts I did not see the ending coming.
Love theFBI series
Love anything by Catherine Coulter!
Egnima is the next FBI thriller by Catherine Coulter. Ms. Coulter has become a master at crafting stories that keep you on the edge of your seat and anticipating the next twist & turn in the plot. Savich & Sherlock find themselves in the middle of two distinct cases. In one, an international criminal escapes from federal custody during a prison transfer. In the other case, a young man breaks in & accosts a young pregnant woman that has recently moved into the neighborhood. After Savich enters the house & attempts to disarm him, the young man collapses & lapses into a coma. What did “John Doe” know? What’s happened to him?
This story has a little different outline than Ms. Coulter’s other FBI books. Other than some flirting & a hint of a romance starting between Cam & Jack, romance has been left out of this story. This served to make the actual mysteries & the storylines a bigger focus. The romance & the time spent with Sean, Savich & Sherlock’s son, usually is a break from the intrigue & time to decompress before the next dramatic escalation of activity. While I missed these parts, the story did not suffer from it. The plot was similar to a rollercoaster in the buildup & fall before the big escalation & discovery. As a reader, my attention was caught from the beginning & didn’t waiver until the end.
When you pick up a book knowing that it is the 21st in a series you are assured of a ripping good story. “Enigma” fulfills those expectations by providing two crimes for FBI Agent Dillion Savich and his team(s) to solve.
In the first crime, Savich is drawn into a local law enforcement situation by an old friend who witnesses a break-in at a pregnant neighbor’s home by a severely disturbed man armed with a rifle. Savich, utilizing a hidden entrance, goes into the home surreptitiously and subdues the armed assailant before the local police can act. The detective in charge, Detective Aldo Mayer, is nearly apoplectic about having been upstaged by the feds. Then, when the case turns in to a child abduction and jurisdiction is passed to the FBI CARD (Child Abduction, Rapid Deployment) Team, Mayer, in a fit of spite pulls police protection from the hospitalized and comatose “John Doe,“ which nearly results in his murder. Apparently, someone doesn’t want this “John” to wake up and tell what he knows. Are the strange chemical traces in his blood responsible for his being unconscious?
Simultaneously, a convicted felon, Liam Hennessey, a.k.a. Manta Ray is snatched from the U.S. Marshalls while en route to United States Penitentiary at Pennington Gap, Virginia. As Savich’s office responsible for returning Hennessey to prison, everyone not already involved in the baby’s kidnapping is scrambling to put the escapee back in jail. As fate would have it, Hennessey and company are spotted entering the Daniel Boone National Forest at a remote location by sheriff’s teenaged daughter. Agents Cam Wittier and Jack Cabot, a former Special Forces soldier, are tasked with tracking the fugitives through the wilderness. Savich and the rest soon establish that Hennessey is connected to a mysterious man with a Russian accent who engineered his escape. Is it all tied to the unrecovered loot from the bank heist that put the escaped felon in prison in the first place?
“Enigma” is a fast read that is brimming with sharp characters and details. Its failing is that it lays the heroics on too thick and some of the plot devices and dialog seem a bit lame to me. Then there are the several dead handed “Epilogues,” all of which left me wondering if someone other than the author wrote them. I do recommend this novel, with the warning that hero worship can be dull when taken to an extreme.
An uncorrected digital galley of this novel was provided to me by Simon & Schuster and NetGalley in exchange for this review.