Petey's Fiction Review

The Face of the Assassin

by David Lindsey

As forensic artist Paul Bern labors to put a face on a skull that was delivered to him by a mysterious woman, he suddenly realizes that the face he's reconstructing is his own. Before he can fully make sense of this bizarre turn of events, he finds himself drawn, unwillingly and irrevocably, into a world of espionage and subterfuge, of terrorism and counter-terrorism, and of covert and clandestine operations.

Blackmailed into assuming the undercover identity of a twin brother he never knew he had, Bern teams up with his late brother's partner, Susana, to gain the confidence of Middle Eastern terrorist Ghazi Baida, a Hezbollah leader intent on inflicting thousands of casualties on U.S. soil. Deception and duplicity run rampant on all sides as various players struggle for survival while serving widely differing agendas.

Bern, whose role was to have been a minor one, soon finds himself fully engaged in a plot not only to deceive, but also to assassinate the terrorist. Untrained in the requisite skills of the covert operative, he nevertheless finds that some things just come naturally to him. It's an unfamiliar side of himself that he'd not previously encountered. But will his newfound abilities enable him to succeed and survive in an environment where his thoroughly trained and vastly more experienced twin could not? Or will he, too, perish in the dark shadow of terrorism?

David Lindsey, author of The Face of the Assassin, has written other highly acclaimed novels, including Animosity and The Rules of Silence. He makes his home in Austin, Texas.

Visit David's Web site at www.davidlindsey.com.

Review by Phil Hanson

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