April 15, 2023
Deep State (2020) introduced readers to Hayley Chill, a White House intern who's not entirely what she seems. Hauty followed with Savage Road (2021) and Storm Rising (2022), which made it clear just what Hayley is capable of when her back is to the wall. Now, in the fourth book in the series, she's handed her toughest assignment yet. A Supreme Court justice has been murdered--gunned down, apparently by a cop. Elsewhere, a group of children has been abducted; the kidnapper will trade them for the life of another Supreme Court justice. Hayley doesn't have a lot of time to save the kids and keep the justice alive. Hauty, who wrote a handful of action movies before he switched to novel-writing, uses the race-against-time structure to its maximum effect: the pacing is perfect, the characters' sense of urgency transferring to the readers, who will start turning pages with increasing speed. Series fans will love this one.
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