Catherine Coulter and J. T. Ellison
In his first hour on the job in the New York field office, freshly minted FBI agent Nicholas Drummond and his partner, Michaela Caine, are called to investigate a stabbing on Wall Street. They must navigate their way through a labyrinth of deadly secrets dating back to an incredible theft during Word War I. They're up against a brilliant madman, Manfred Havelock, who will do anything to retrieve what's been lost for nearly a century. Only one person, a gifted hacker, knows where to look. And he's gone missing. John Pearce's cryptic dying words -- "The key is in the lock" -- set into motion an eleventh-hour race to solve the riddle of what key, and what lock, with Havelock one step ahead of Drummond and Caine, leaving mayhem and death in his wake. They must find the hacker and stop Havelock before he changes the world forever.
This book is the second in the series, but the third one I've read. (A statement which holds no importance whatsoever) I'm still liking the quick pace, short-ish chapters, and mostly-clean language. The action is well-described...so I can see it in my mind-movie, and the stakes are high...and almost believable!
First Line: Ansonia was dead.
Page 56 / Line 5: "I saw a photo in his bedroom of a boy maybe about eight years old, and the girl, she looked about fourteen or fifteen, their mother between them, hugging them close."
A Good Line from Somewhere in the Middle: He stared at her in surprise, dropped his gun, then quietly fell backward onto the beautifully appointed foyer just as Penderley's tactical team burst through the front door.
Last Line: "Both of you."
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