White Alert: A Prosecution Force Thriller

The solid sixth entry in Ryles’s Prosecution Force series (after Fire Storm) finds former CIA operative Reed Montgomery on the trail of Abdel Ibrahim, a terrorist responsible for a deadly nerve agent attack on Baton Rouge and a Nashville bombing that severely injured Reed’s wife. When interim CIA director Sarah Aimes gets a lead on Ibrahim’s location, she texts Reed’s team of black ops specialists, and tells them to bring Ibrahim in dead or alive. Together with assassin Lucy Byrne, pilot Kersten Corbyn, and operatives Rufs Turkman and Wolfgang Pierce, Reed launches a worldwide manhunt that soon uncovers evidence Ibrahim may be planning a nuclear attack. Meanwhile, U.S. president Maggie Trousdale recovers from a near-assassination, and Aimes embarks on the arduous process of becoming full-time CIA director. Ryles keeps the pacing brisk and the stakes high, with plenty of well-orchestrated action scenes. While there’s no shortage of series centered on secret ops organizations, this keeps up with the best of them. (Sept.)