Quicksand

Rating:
Summary: GREAT! A real thriller
Review: In Los Angeles Harbor, assistant U.S. attorney Brock Andrews and his crew of men break up the sale of C-4 explosives to Syrian interests. There was enough explosive power being disposed of to have destroyed a very large geographical area. They arrest Edward Nelson, a former CIA agent and an internationally known arms dealer, who is now looking at serving at least a century of time behind bars instead of lixurious surroundings.

A few months later, Brock's estranged spouse and boss, Alison, cuts a deal with Edward. She releases him in return for his cooperation. He will serve as a mole and help ferret out a domestic terrorist group. An appalled Brock cannot believe that the agency cut a deal with a person like Nelson, who is as untrustworthy as anyone and probably has an agenda of his own. Brock is right about the defamed former agent, but he is non-cognizant of the fact that Nelson plans to organize and release a powerfully armed militia, whose targets are in! power at the highest levels of political Washington D.C. It remains for the battling Andrews, who do not talk to each other, to reunite in order to stop an act of terrorism that not only seems impossible to put into action, but will cripple the country if it comes to pass.

QUICKSAND is an incredible thriller that is played out on two fronts: the United States and the Andrews family. Though, readers will have to ignore federal nepotism laws, it is worth doing because that acceptance brings a ton of personal tension to this already exciting thriller. William P. Wood provides fans of political suspense novels with a fabulous winner that will leave readers searching the used bookstores for previous works by this talented writer.

Harriet Klausner