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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Series: FBI Thriller #21
Publication Date: 9/12/17
Be prepared for drama and action as the FBI’s CAU division deals with a medical megalomaniac and a mastermind killer who shows no mercy. The twenty-first book in the series is just as strong, thrilling, suspenseful and intriguing as the first twenty. These villains aren’t quite as twisted as some of them have been, but they still provide you with a shiver down the spine. Coulter chose not to use Savich’s ‘special’ gift in this book and I wonder if she’s decided to move away from that angle.
I love that you almost always get multiple cases in one book and this one has two. Both are interesting, but very different and the agents involved are also different and interesting.
Case 1 provides the name for the book – Enigma. When Dillon Savich’s friend, Dr. Janice Hudson, calls him to hurry over because she thinks her friend and neighbor is in trouble, he finds a mad man holding the neighbor hostage. The man has the neighbor, Kara Moody, duct taped to a chair and he’s raving about saving her from ‘them’ and screaming that he is an enigma. The madman ends up in a coma and Kara goes into labor. When Kara’s baby is stolen from the hospital and an attempt is made on the madman’s life the FBI goes into high gear trying to find the baby and figure out the connection between the madman, Kara and the baby. The answer will intrigue and astound you.
Case 2 has agents Cam Wittier and Jack Cabot tracking down an escaped robber and murderer, Liam Hennessey, aka Manta Ray. The escape was perfectly planned and executed, but how could the prisoner have possibly coordinated such a plan when he’d had no visitors except his lawyer? The answer to that leads you to blackmail at the highest levels of government as well as murder and intrigue. Hennessey escapes into a forest in Kentucky and then escapes the forest by helicopter. There must be someone rich and powerful helping Hennessey, but who can it be and why would they be interested in helping a robber and murderer escape?
Weaving back and forth between the two storylines, multiple intriguing characters and diverse locations will keep you turning pages as fast as you can to see what happens next. It is definitely a must read!
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Ms Catherine is an excellent writer.
Savich helps a neighbor who is pregnant and being held by a crazy man or is he? The man falls into a coma after his capture and leaves everyone with many unanswered questions. Who is this man, why did he choose the pregnant woman, and where did he come from? When the woman has the baby and he is kidnapped things become even more urgent. While Savich and Sherlock are hunting down the answers to these questions and trying to find the missing baby a convicted bank robber escapes custody. Agent Cam Wittier, who is new to the BAU and Agent Jack Cabot are sent to hunt down the robber known as Manta Ray. The items he stole from the safety deposit boxes has never been recovered even though the police searched for them. What was so important in one of those boxes that had someone helping this man escape? I love the word play and interaction between the characters. I also enjoy how the author has two cases going on at the same time and how she seamlessly goes between them. I’ve read this series from the beginning and always look forward to what comes next for the old and new characters.
(Thank you Netgalley and the Publisher for the opportunity to read this book for an honest review)
Enigma by Catherine Coulter is a page-turner which I could not stop reading once I started. We join agents Savich and Sherlock for another time sensitive thriller which has the reader’s full attention.
It is a fast paced and very intriguing story which uncovers genome research for the purpose of repairing aging cells and restoring a limited measure of health to the test subject. Lister Maddox is a scientist who has no hesitancy to test his miracle drug on people who were deceived in the purpose of the drug, therefore we have Enigma 1, 2, and who will be the third?
Kara Moody has no idea who the person was that drugged her at a party and now she is pregnant. She had to leave home and is trying to make it on her own as she waits for the baby to be born. Why did a “Crazy” man invade her home and warn her that he was trying to save her? Her joy of motherhood is crashed when her newborn is stolen from the hospital. Who wanted her baby? Did ‘John Doe’ know a truth so scary that he was willing to die to try to protect Kara’s baby?
We will follow along with Cam Wittier and Jack Cabot through the Daniel Boone National Forest as they attempt to track down an escaped prisoner who shows no mercy to those who cross his path. There is also an element of political deception which affects national security due to the extreme actions of a father trying to cover up a murder. The story interweaves several plots to keep the reader alert and completely engrossed in the book. Read and Enjoy!
I always love the series of Catherine Coulter books. Always anticipating the next book in the series. Sherlock & Savich are great characters to follow.
This was a very good mystery…a little predictable but nevertheless well written and entertaining.
enjoy all the FBI books from Coulter
Wonderfully written suspense novel
Love her books.
Her books leave you on the edge of your seat. This is true with Enigma. Fast paced. I am a big fan of all her books
Not as good as usual. Maybe all the good ideas have been used. I love the characters so continue to read. Please reread your early books and recapture the spark and fun and heart the s series used to have! I miss that a lot.
great read, weird plot line, unusual characters & of course Savich & Sherlock, a really great team. Love this series.
Love these characters!
I read everything Catherine Coulter writes – she is one of the best!
I enjoyed this book, it kept me interested.
Catherine Coulter never fails to keep you guessing. This was a great read!
Excellent author
I’ve read everything that she has written. The characters feel like friends. She never disappoints
I read it in two sittings!