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Title: The President's Shadow
Subtitle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 3
Author: Brad Meltzer
Narrator: Jeff Harding
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-15-16
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Some secrets should stay buried.
The number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Inner Circle delivers the third novel in the blockbuster Culper Ring Trilogy.
Beecher White, a humble archivist at the US National Archives by day, has a secret: he belongs to the Culper Ring, a network of spies founded by George Washington during the American Revolution. Over the course of his time working for the Culper Ring, White has discovered countless secrets and saved more lives than he knows - including the president's.
And then, one day, White makes an alarming discovery on the White House grounds: a severed arm buried in the Rose Garden. As he investigates, he realizes it's a message...one that may have dire repercussions for the president.
But that's not all - the message also turns Beecher's personal life upside down, pointing him towards the dark truth about his father's death.
Members Reviews:
A fast paced thriller -- but with something more.
There is a staple plot in the thriller genre: take someone who is an outsider -- a relatively low-level government employee, for example -- and let him or her uncover evidence of a plot or mystery. As that person gets drawn more and more into solving the mystery, they find themselves being hunted by government agencies, supposed allies prove to be false friends, and one is never sure of anyone's allegiances until the very end.
This staple plot completely sums up The President's Shadow, as indeed it does all the books of the Culper Ring series; and if that is all the books had to offer, they would still be pretty good books. Four stars, I'd say.
But Brad Meltzer adds another layer to the mix here: history. No, not the history of presidents and espionage and secret organizations, although these are also to be found in the Culper Ring books in great abundance. I'm referring to personal history. As protagonist Beecher White says, when you're looking for your family, what you're really searching for is yourself.
After all, let's suppose that you or I stumbled across some kind of evidence of an incredible plot by or against the government. What would you do? Most of us, I'm sure, would be happy to turn the evidence over to the police or FBI and wash our hands of the whole thing. Hardly any of us would decide to quit our jobs, fly around the country chasing clues, and endure being shot at by Secret Service agents gone rogue -- yet this is what most thrillers on the market would have us believe.
On the other hand, we might do a lot, if it meant learning more about the father who died when we were 4, or if the girl who gave us our first kiss in 8th grade suddenly reappears, asking us for a favor. Brad Meltzer knows this. It seems that every one of his characters has some kind of motivation like that, and it turns a genre thriller into something more emotionally complex. It also blurs the lines of good and bad: as one of the characters in the book, one of the "bad guys" says, we are all many people inhabiting a single body.
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Title: The President's Shadow
Subtitle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 3
Author: Brad Meltzer
Narrator: Jeff Harding
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-15-16
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Some secrets should stay buried.
The number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Inner Circle delivers the third novel in the blockbuster Culper Ring Trilogy.
Beecher White, a humble archivist at the US National Archives by day, has a secret: he belongs to the Culper Ring, a network of spies founded by George Washington during the American Revolution. Over the course of his time working for the Culper Ring, White has discovered countless secrets and saved more lives than he knows - including the president's.
And then, one day, White makes an alarming discovery on the White House grounds: a severed arm buried in the Rose Garden. As he investigates, he realizes it's a message...one that may have dire repercussions for the president.
But that's not all - the message also turns Beecher's personal life upside down, pointing him towards the dark truth about his father's death.
Members Reviews:
A fast paced thriller -- but with something more.
There is a staple plot in the thriller genre: take someone who is an outsider -- a relatively low-level government employee, for example -- and let him or her uncover evidence of a plot or mystery. As that person gets drawn more and more into solving the mystery, they find themselves being hunted by government agencies, supposed allies prove to be false friends, and one is never sure of anyone's allegiances until the very end.
This staple plot completely sums up The President's Shadow, as indeed it does all the books of the Culper Ring series; and if that is all the books had to offer, they would still be pretty good books. Four stars, I'd say.
But Brad Meltzer adds another layer to the mix here: history. No, not the history of presidents and espionage and secret organizations, although these are also to be found in the Culper Ring books in great abundance. I'm referring to personal history. As protagonist Beecher White says, when you're looking for your family, what you're really searching for is yourself.
After all, let's suppose that you or I stumbled across some kind of evidence of an incredible plot by or against the government. What would you do? Most of us, I'm sure, would be happy to turn the evidence over to the police or FBI and wash our hands of the whole thing. Hardly any of us would decide to quit our jobs, fly around the country chasing clues, and endure being shot at by Secret Service agents gone rogue -- yet this is what most thrillers on the market would have us believe.
On the other hand, we might do a lot, if it meant learning more about the father who died when we were 4, or if the girl who gave us our first kiss in 8th grade suddenly reappears, asking us for a favor. Brad Meltzer knows this. It seems that every one of his characters has some kind of motivation like that, and it turns a genre thriller into something more emotionally complex. It also blurs the lines of good and bad: as one of the characters in the book, one of the "bad guys" says, we are all many people inhabiting a single body.