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    Audiobook7 hours

    Blowback

    Written by Valerie Plame and Sarah Lovett

    Narrated by Negin Farsad

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    About this audiobook

    Introducing an exhilarating new espionage thriller by former CIA ops officer Valerie Plame and thriller writer Sarah Lovett.

    Covert CIA ops officer Vanessa Pierson is finally close to capturing the world's most dangerous international nuclear arms dealer: Bhoot, alias the ghost. One of her assets has information about Bhoot's upcoming visit to a secret underground nuclear weapons facility in Iran - in only a few days. But just as Pierson's informant is about to give her the location, they're ambushed by an expert sniper. Pierson narrowly escapes. Her asset: dead.

    Desperate to capture Bhoot and the sniper before they inflict more damage, Pierson enlists all of the Agency's resources to find them. But with each day, the pressure of the manhunt mounts, causing her to push her forbidden romance with a fellow ops officer to its limit when she asks him to do the impossible. Despite the risks, she refuses to halt her pursuit of the terrorists, and she puts her cover and her career - and her life - at risk.

    With rapid-cut shifts from European capitals to Washington to the Near East, and with insider detail that only a former spy could provide, Blowback marks the explosive beginning of the hunt for Bhoot, the villain whom Vanessa Pierson devotes her life to capturing, dead or alive.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 1, 2013
    ISBN9781101579619
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    • 4/5
      I must admit to a bias against books "as told to" or generally as co-written as is the case here. But I must admit that "Blowback" is much better than I had expected. It has a very interesting plot dealing with the threat of a nuclear bomb being developed by the Iranians. As the story opens, there appears to be an assassination plot targetting Western "impediments" to the Iranian's project and a number of the victims turn out to be heroine Vanessa Pierson's assets. Vanessa is one tough cookie, brainy too, and she has a lover also employed by the CIA. And that's a big no-no. There is a fair amount of shooting though not as much as in the super-spy books of a Lee Child or Vince Flynn. And this fist in a planned Vanessa series is not as cerebral as Littell, Lawton, or LeCarre. So it seems to fall somewhere in the middle. Me, I would prefer less shooting and more strategizing. I'll probably read #2 when it comes out.
    • 1/5
      The author forgot that her audience most likely was not of the same government security background as she. While the story was good, the writing was not engaging. It does lead to a sequel. Don't think I would recommend the book, but would recommend the author get a ghost writer so she could share her fiction in a more palatable manner.
    • 4/5
      I like, respect, and honor the service Valerie Plame did for our country, so I was inclined to like this first-effort novel, written with a well-seasoned mystery writer, Sarah Lovett. And I did like it; can't say I loved it, but the story got better as the book got into the mean of the espionage. Some elements just a bit too wonky for me to understand and some of the relationships a bit over the top, but if you enjoy the show Homeland, I think you would also enjoy this book.
    • 1/5
      Starts out fairly well with the assassination then plunges into an incoherent web of characters, plots, and sub-plots. Writing also very weak and amateurish.
    • 4/5
      Can you believe I did not know this was a fictional story when I bought it? I thought Ms Plame had produced another bio. Well, I was presently surprised. I don't read many spy type fictions. Maybe one a decade. I enjoyed this, it was like a cross of Zero Dark Thirty and Homeland with with big difference. Vanessa the main character is NOC, she is not a regular agency employee. So the storyline is somewhat different from ordinary spy novels. And the author should know. Her famous outing as a NOC in 2006 does not reflect in this story, but she might have borrowed from her real experiences. I enjoyed it and plan to break my rule in avoiding these type of book. I look forward to reading the next in the series.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this for the most part, a quick read. The character interactions were very believable and not too overloaded with the interpersonal interactions and challenges. I just finished one where this was the case, and was would have liked more to the plot. Plame definitely adds the air of expertise to the world of espionage. I would have rated this higher, but was a little disappointed in the ending. Many books will reach the climax and finish too quickly, leaving you wondering about some of the loose ends. This one is the opposite, it reached the climax (it seemed to me), but then continued, in which is a obvious set up for the next in the Vanessa Pierson installment. I will give it a try when it comes out.
    • 4/5
      Covert CIA operative Vanessa Pierson is finally close to capturing a black market nuclear arms dealer, but all her informants are now the target of a Chechen assassin. Lots of intrigue, a little love interest that adds certain complications. Well written page turner - especially toward the end
    • 2/5
      I like mysteries and thrillers and usually read at least two a month. The latest was BLOWBACK by ex-CIA officer Valerie Plame and thriller writer Sarah Lovett. With a team like that and book jacket raves by some excellent authors, it seemed like a winner. Sadly, it wasn’t.Vanessa Pierson (the similarity of initials could have been a clue) is on an assignment in Vienna. Her contact is almost an hour late. She is trying to blend in while she is waiting at the park and it running out of things to do. She goes to a shooting booth and quickly shoots eight targets, forgetting to take her prize red plush panda with her until the barker calls her back. She quickly hands the prize to a crying child.As she finally sees the man she is supposed to meet and walks towards him, now less than ten meters away, she gets a message to abort the mission. She decides to ignore the message. They meet and begin walking away. He tells her that he has some vital information about a weapons facility and an arms dealer, specializing in nuclear devices, she has been seeking for a few years. Before he can give her the specific information to locate the facility and dealer, he his killed by a sniper. She leaves the park and returns to Washington, DC. We are now on page 21, chapter 4. I continued reading until chapter fourteen, page 66, during which time she is debriefed and chastised and we learn a bit about her coworkers, the assassin and the victim’s wife and daughter. At that point, I decided to move on to another book.There are too many illogical situations. For someone trying to be inconspicuous, she made herself very noticeable when she demonstrated her marksmanship, walked away without her prize, and then gave the stuffed animal away. How did her controller in the US know to have her abort the mission almost an hour after the meet up was to have happened and when the contact was so close? In a large amusement park, how did the assassin know exactly where they would be standing so he, lying on a hill a distance away, would be able to get his target with one shot? I don’t like books that are padded with too much detail. This one didn’t have enough and made the story shallow. Some points may have been made later on but it wasn’t worth the time or effort to find them. The writing left a lot to be desired. For example, there were too many sentence fragments. The book contained too many too short chapters: Sixty seven plus an epilogue in 320 pages. There wasn’t enough character development.Maybe the next one will be better.