I started this book on a Saturday morning and read the whole thing that day. overwhelmed consumer Kathryn Judge investigates the surprising ways that middlemen have taken control of the eco. there is no middleman between word and reader. As she uncovers unlikely alliances, murky motives, and dangerous lies, Proulx gets drawn deeper and deeper into Bureau intrigue. RT girldrawsghosts: books are like the purest, least bells and whistles gateway to education that exists. The more she learns about the Massive Brigade, and the more she leads the Bureau into engagement with its members, the more confusing and dangerous it gets. (I wonder how you pronounce her last name, by the way.) She has been monitoring on the west coast a particular movement called the Massive Brigade which is advocating violence to accelerate the pace of social change. Into this environment steps FBI Special Agent Rachel Proulx. I finished reading in one seating so I consider it pretty good. The America of The Middleman looks very much like America today, with bitter disputes between progressives and establishment figures and between advocates for wide-ranging social change and advocates for more conservative approaches. The Middleman is smart and entertaining and consistently intriguing Scott Turow, The New York Times Book Review One of Entertainment Weekly’s hottest summer thrillers With The Middleman, the perfect thriller for our tumultuous, uneasy time, Olen Steinhauer, the New York Times bestselling author of ten novels, including The Tourist and The Cairo Affair, delivers a compelling. It’s a cute love story about someone who has a low self esteem and one that seems to have everything. The Middleman is set in contemporary America, post the election of President Trump, post recent controversy about the FBI, and post street protest against various policies the government is pursuing. It’s a great resource! I hadn’t heard of, or read anything by, Olen Steinhauer, but I was intrigued by the plot summary on the book jacket flap and by the blurb from Stephen King, who called one of Steinhauer’s earlier novels, The Tourist, “The best spy novel I’ve ever read that wasn’t written by John le Carré.” Stephen King didn’t steer me wrong. This is another book I came upon while browsing the new fiction shelf at Rolvaag library. 'The Middleman is smart and entertaining and consistently intriguing' New York Times Book Review ' The Middleman, with its abundance of multidimensional characters and political viewpoints, is a thought-provoking novel that never ceases to excite as a thriller.
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