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The Widow File (2014)

by S.G. Redling(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Thomas & Mercer

series

Dani Britton

review 1: I picked this one up three or four times before I actually read past the first few pages. I found it very hard to get into, but once the big event happens, i.e., every one of the heroine's co-workers being killed, (not a spoiler) the story picked up and I found it very engaging. What I had a problem with in the beginning was the descriptions of the people that Dani, the protagonist, worked with. The spoiled rich boy, the lisping secretary, the woman who wore too much perfume; I couldn't imagine reading about them any more, they just all seemed so broadly drawn and unpleasant, but I pushed through, and was glad that I did.
review 2: A high-level security firm is tasked to identify a leak within a scientific firm. Apparently it succeeds too well, for the secur... moreity firm's headquarters becomes the target of a search-and-destroy mission by a group of mercenaries. The mercenaries kill a dozen members of the firm, take away the head of the firm, and are themselves killed when the building is destroyed in a pre-set explosion. What did the firm stumble upon? Who employed the hit team? And what will happen to the two surviving members of the firm who escaped being killed by a combination of luck and skill?One of the survivors, a young woman named Dani, is a specialist in profiling subjects based on reading the detritus from their lives. Part of that detritus, in this case, contains the very information that led to the destruction of her team and friends. She is the central character, though almost equal time is given to Booker, a free-lance hit man who operated independent of the hit team. Dani, who surprises herself with her essential toughness (though it becomes apparent later that she has been resourceful for much of her life), stays alive while unraveling the mystery of what led to the firm's demise. She engages in some serious cat-and-mouse exchanges with Booker. The other survivor, ChooChoo, is a poor-little-rich-boy with impressive social skills of the chameleon-like variety. Together, they stay alive until they discover the ionformation that killed their team.The matter of how Dani and Choo-Choo get close to some sort of resolution while staying alive makes for an exciting chase novel. (Chase novels are my favorites; e.g., Thomas Perry's Jane Whitefield novels.) "The Widow File" is skillfully plotted and written. The ending is particularly satisfying. less

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