Book Review: Blowback by James Patterson and Brendan DuBois (2022)
Synopsis: After former Director of the CIA, Keegan Barrett, is elected President of the United States, he decides to attempt a power grab using two of his loyal CIA agents, Liam Grey and Noa Himmel. While they are sworn to carry out the president's orders, the agents find their loyalties tested as their orders are in direct violation of the United States Constitution. Review: While I'm not a huge James Patterson fan (or really a fan of the spy thriller genre in general), I have at times read some of his books, mostly because they tend to be given to me as Christmas or birthday presents. In fact, the only reason I have Blowback in my library was because it was given to me on my 49th birthday last week. Since it was a gift and because I was between books at the time anyway, I did give the book a read. Overall, while still not really my thing, it turned out to be decent. I think the thing that stood out for me was it really wasn't all that farfetched which, in itself, is a...