LIZ SANSBOROUGH

       Liz Sansborough is an agent with the CIA.
       As you read the first book, you quickly grow to question that statement. An important mystery regarding Sansborough is her identity. Is she an agent trained to hunt down one of the best contract assassins working the political field. Or she is an assassin herself, working with that assassin, named the Carnivore. Or she is a reporter who looks enough like her cousin to be mistaken for her. Each of these is part of the truth behind the puzzle that is Liz Sansborough.
       The mystery behind these questions make up the first book as the reader is shown the situation behind the problem and learns along with the characters what the truth really is. The second book does not have that situation but lets the reader follow the main character as she learns to deal with the truth.
       Sansborough is the child of agents, two people who were very good at what they did and from whom she learned a lot of her tradecraft, even if she did not know she was learning it at the time. It was only natural that she would go to work with Langley. She had been an agent for several years but grew tired of the violence and wanted out so she left. Just wanting to get out, though, is often not enough especially if the agent is the daughter of the world’s best assassin, Hal Sansborough aka the Carnivore, and neither he nor those who he works with nor those he works against is willing to let her go.
       She is forced to show everyone that, while she does not like what she has to do, she is very, very good at doing it.
       

       When I first read the first book in this series soon after it came out, I walked away a bit confused. There was a lot going on in my life at the time and I did not give the book the chance it deserved and did not give it the credit it was warranted. Almost a decade and half later, I tried again and saw that what I suspected was true – Ms. Lynds can absolutely, definitely write.
“Certainly the author’s work on other books shows she is a darned good writer. I sometimes am not a darned good reader.” Those are the words I used in My Comments the first time and I happily, readily eat those words.
Ms. Lynds, if you had the misfortune of reading my comments back then, I apologize. I have read these two books again and totally change my previous opinion and would like to think that you will give us more of Liz Sansborough.

My Grade: B+

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