Finished Mo 8/1/11
"Thriller" indeed, and a very engaging read, and a superlative first novel. Another 'tough girl' heroine who is more than a little similar to Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander. Vanessa Michael Munroe drives the action in THE INFORMATIONIST. Ms. Munroe is deadly in martial arts, and is a wizard in gaining and using intelligence, and this skill makes her much in demand to the corporate chieftains of The New World Order. In this novel she is contacted by the head of a major Texas oil company, and is paid handsomely to locate his daughter who disappeared in darkest Africa four years previously. Vanessa connects with an old friend from her past, and they attempt to unravel this mysterious disappearance in one of the most politically corrupt and lawless areas on the face of the earth.
Ms. Taylor plans to write more on this character, and I will definitely check them out.
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