Max Geller: Target of the Kremlin, MI6, and the CIA Fired for bias against the U.S. president, ex-CIA Russia expert Max Geller gets a chance to redeem his reputation and make a fortune when he is hired to investigate the president’s incriminating ties to Moscow. Jill Rucker, an undercover CIA agent, is assigned to work with him—and she does—when she’s not pursuing her own conflicting goals. The … The search takes them to England, Russia, Panama, and Switzerland. Along the way, Max runs afoul of British intelligence by inadvertently compromising two of its operations. He gets help from an anti-Russian underground cell in Moscow, is assisted and threatened by the Russian mafia, exposes a massive Russian-American money laundering scheme in Panama, and uncovers a plot to protect the president from mounting accusations threatening his presidency. Close behind is Zabluda, a Kremlin assassin, who means to kill them and their sources and destroy evidence incriminating the president. Max discovers that he has been betrayed by his former boss, his current employer, and his girlfriend. Seeking revenge, he takes on a powerful Washington law firm, the CIA, and the Russians. Max Geller is the spy who went out in the cold—and no one wants him to come in and tell what he knows.Perfect for fans of Daniel Silva and Nelson DeMille
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Brimming with history, reality, intensity, and passion, James Scott draws the reader deep into his carefully crafted web. You’re going to enjoy the pulse-pounding escapades.
The President’s Dossier is the book of the moment. A political, espionage thriller that spell out “what can happen”, dramatically, in detail, with an international trail of bodies left behind in the brutal search for “evidence”. This is a thriller not to miss!
Not even thinly veiled, but that’s fine. I suspended disbelief and followed disgraced spy Max Geller and his cohorts around the world in pursuit of material to prove the American president was a Russian stooge. On edge most of the time, I could well imagine everything happening as depict in the world of spydom. As long as you don’t like the recent US president, you will probably enjoy the book. I don’t, and I did.
I enjoyed this book, but there were too many twists and plotsl, enough for 2 books
The President’s Dossier is an international thriller of the highest order that enlightens even as it terrifies. Not to be missed for fans of high-stakes, high-action thrillers.
Sounds almost like what is going on today with Biden and Putin but didn’t particularly care for the book itself
Too political. Predictable and trite.
Emblematic of recent current issues relating to dossier’s in the public arena.
No character development. Not my cup of tea. A book I put down and have not been tempted to start reading again.
Writer attempts to fictionalize Trump’s supposed dossier for the narrative of the book. It’s certainly an interesting take.
Somewhat disjointed; minimal character development.
Author James A. Scott is a former Army officer, paratrooper and combat veteran with experience in Pentagon Army intelligence operations. As such, he uses his background to write a story pulled directly from the headlines regarding the Steele dossier. This is a work of fiction based on fact, and that must be kept in mind while reading this novel. That said, Scott is clearly in touch with the world of spooks and the “tradecraft” required in the field. Scott seems to be familiar with the locales he mentions in Europe.
The story is about a career CIA agent, Max Geller, who is framed, then fired, for being biased against the current US president. He is then hired by a go-between to prove a dossier on the president is true. Max pulls together a crew and, from there, the story moves quickly from the US to Britain to Russia to Panama and back to the U S. He is able to move from country to country relatively easily, seeming magically avoiding hassles with customs everywhere he goes.
The characters in The President’s Dossier are fully formed, but somehow lack the depth found in Daniel Silva’s Gabriel Allon series. I enjoyed the book, though, and read it in one sitting..
Whom can you trust? No one, it seems. The plot thickens and twists and leaves you wondering just what will happen next.
Love it! Amazing how fiction mimics real life!
Great read and very current for 2020. I appreciated the descriptions of Russia’s intervention techniques and how they interfere with activities in the U.S. and its citizens and intelligence activities.