Steve Martini has authored several best sellers featuring defense attorneys Paul Madriani and Harry Hines, along with their investigator Herman Diggs. The latest in the series, "The Rule of Nine", takes up from the previous book in which the firm is involved in a dangerous plot in Costa Rica, where a terrorist master-mind known as Thorn is supposedly killed.
However Thorn is alive and well and sweet-talks young government worker Jimmie Snyder into giving him a tour of a restricted area in a Washington government building. Later Jimmie is found murdered, although clumsily set up to look like suicide. Madriani's business card is found in Jimmie's pocket, and the FBI is quickly asking a lot of questions.
Jimmie's attorney father soon approaches Madriani to assist him in determining what really happened to his son. There appears to be a link to a ruthless murder-for-hire criminal known as Liquida. As the firm begins to put the pieces together about a terrorist conspiracy in America, Liquida begins to target the attorneys and their families.
When it becomes known that the plot involves bombs with enormous ramifications if activated, and that a highly ranked American politician is involved, Madriani takes to the road to quash the threat.
The author does an excellent job of grabbing your attention in the first pages and keeping you rivited in this nailbiter. This is a great thriller for those who appreciate adventure packed fiction. Reserve yourself a quiet weekend, as it is hard to put down. On a scale of 1 to 10 I rate it a 7.
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