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Burned

a Vanessa Pierson Novel
Apr 11, 2015rpavlacic rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Former CIA agent Valerie Plame, perhaps the most famous modern-day victim of an act of treason, has fought back with the power of the pen. In the second novel in a series, Vanessa Pierson - a fictitious caricature of the author - tries to stop what is the midnight nightmare for many of us, a nuclear bomb small enough to fit inside of a briefcase (the very area Plame was working on when she was betrayed). A mysterious terrorist who turns out to be an unlikely ally, as well a fellow CIA agent with whom she has a torrid (and inappropriate) affair, are about the only people she can trust while she zeros in on the prime suspect, the last person anyone could expect. The book also gives insight to the often difficult but still necessary relationships allies' intelligence agencies have.