The plot moves forward at a good pace and I would bet it continues on a steady beat straight through the end. Bergstrom does a great job of really showing us a scene - Gwendolyn really takes in all the details around her, even before she starts her spy training. The story is action-packed, and the physical details are very well done. It has been optioned by Jerry Bruckheimer, so it's on the way. But I decided not to let that affect my reaction to the story itself, and I don't think that I did. Then I re-discovered that it was written by this guy. I love audiobooks, so when I was given the chance to review this one, I jumped at it. As she journeys from the slums of Paris, to the nightclubs of Berlin, to the heart of the most feared crime family in Prague, Gwendolyn discovers that to survive in this new world she must become every bit as cruel as the men she’s hunting. Following the only lead she has-the name of a Palestinian informer living in France-she plunges into a brutal world of arms smuggling and human trafficking. Government is unable to help, 17 year-old Gwendolyn Bloom sets off across the sordid underbelly of Europe to rescue him. When her diplomat father is kidnapped and the U.S.
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