Insiders Book 2: Missiles From Islamabad

Insiders Book 2: Missiles From Islamabad, by Jean-Claude Bartoll & Renaud Garreta, Cinebook

AN EVOCATIVE front cover of Insiders’ heroine Najah walking towards us calmly decked out in black, and guns at ease tells us that here’s a lady who means business.

She’s working undercover for a secret US government agency – So secret those few who know it exists are busy having to contend with people trying to arrange to have their own lives cut short, and that leaves our heroine cut off from them, fending for herself.

Playing hired hitter for a worldwide criminal syndicate Najah nearly has her cover blown in this the second book of the series.

Writer Bartoll tends to push an agenda of relating worldwide terrorist and Mafia style affair journalistic facts in a fictional form to the detriment of characterisation. When there’s action, Gareta’s art has dynamic flourishes, elsewhere there’s a tendency towards talking head syndrome.

Insiders isn’t the most compelling of Cinebook’s titles despite its evocative movie style covers, but this book’s plot of criminals selling French cruise missiles to Pakistan’s military is focussed and proves to be a more cohesive storyline than the first title in the series.

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