DELIVER US FROM EVIL by David Baldacci

Finished Tu 5/24/22

I bought this at the library book sale on Sa 1/11/20. This is probably the last one the library had before the pandemic.

Essentially it's the story of two intelligence agencies that are going after the same 'evil dude'. Evan Waller is a Canadian businessman who is actually Fedir Kuchin, a serial murderer from the Ukraine. 

 Reggie Campion who works for a secret vigilante group that were going after surviving Nazi war criminals, but since most of them have died so they have expanded the scope and now go after any political mass murderers. 

Shaw is an agent working for the US and runs across this other outfit when they are both trying to take out 'Waller/Kuchin' who is vacationing in the Provence region of France. 

Campion and Shaw become lovers but at the end of the novel Shaw breaks it off because he feels that any woman who falls for him is doomed. 

From Goodreads:

"Evan Waller is a monster. He has built a fortune from his willingness to buy and sell anything… and anyone. In search of new opportunities, Waller has just begun a new business venture: one that could lead to millions of deaths all over the globe.

On Waller’s trail is Shaw, the mysterious operative from The Whole Truth, who must prevent Waller from closing his latest deal. Shaw’s one chance to bring him down will come in the most unlikely of places: a serene, bucolic village in Provence.

But Waller’s depravity and ruthlessness go deeper than Shaw knows. And now, there is someone else pursuing Waller in Provence—Reggie Campion, an agent for a secret vigilante group headquartered in a musty old English estate—and she has an agenda of her own.

Hunting the same man, unaware of each other’s mission, Shaw and Reggie will be caught in a deadly duel of nerve and wits. Hitchcockian in its intimate buildup of suspense, and filled with the kind of breathtaking plot turns and remarkable characters that are David Baldacci’s hallmark, Deliver Us from Evil is the most gripping thriller of the year." 

David Baldacci is more of a storyteller but not a writer. I would like more character development and a higher quality of writing. 

The evil dude was part of 'Holodomor'.

Holodomor was "Terror-Famine or the Great Famine, was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor famine was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1932–1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the country.