Duplicity

Duplicity is the first political thriller in the Brooke Grant series by Newt Gingrich and Pete Earley. Brooke Grant is a female African-American captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. While serving at the U.S. embassy in London, see sees a suspicious looking character approaching the U.S. Embassy in London carrying a suitcase. After alerting a London police officer, she tackles the suspect and prevents him from setting off a bomb in from of the embassy and gains Brooke popularity in the news in the United States. Meanwhile in the U.S., it is an election year where the incumbent president has stiff competition from a wealthy billionaire that bought his way into the Florida and is trying to do the same thing with the presidential seat with an isolationist platform. To counter it and to win votes, the president decides to open an embassy in Somalia with a vow to help them fight terrorism and assigns Brooke as the military attaché. Just after the newly ambassador arrives to the new embassy, terrorists overrun the embassy, taking everybody, but Brooke hostage who escapes in a disguise. Brook then sets out to free the hostages.

This book is surprisingly good! It was first published in 2015 and has some similarities to the last U.S. Presidential election and even some of the events that currently making the new in the U.S. It is an excellent piece of fiction from the former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives!

If interested in reading this book, you can purchase it at the following sites in various formats:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Duplicity-Novel-Newt-Gingrich-ebook/dp/B00NERQRSU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1516635729&sr=8-1&keywords=duplicity

Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/duplicity-newt-gingrich/1120322907?ean=9781455530434#/

World of Sleuths Rating: *****

(Five out of five stars)