Margaret Trumans Allied in Danger, Margaret Truman
Margaret Trumans Allied in Danger, Margaret Truman
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Margaret Truman's Allied in Danger
A Capital Crimes Novel

Author: Margaret Truman, Donald Bain

Narrator: David de Vries

Unabridged: 9 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/27/2018


Synopsis

PI Robert Brixton is back in Margaret Truman’s Allied in Danger, Donald Bain’s next installment in the New York Times bestselling Capital Crimes seriesDavid Portland works security for America’s British Embassy in London. His life is upended when his son Trevor dies mysteriously in Nigeria, while employed by a suspicious security/mercenary company known as SureSafe. One night, Portland sees a man in a bar wearing a bracelet—a family heirloom, which he had given his son—and attacks the man. The information he learns will send Portland down a rabbit-hole of deadly deception—one which he hopes will lead him to the truth about his son’s death.Meanwhile, Robert Brixton, a noted Washington DC-based international investigator, has been hired to look into a fraudulent charity and a criminal warlord in Nigeria. His life and his investigations will soon become intertwined with Portland’s probe and that of his estranged, ex-wife, Elizabeth. Their interconnected cases will take Brixton to Nigeria, into that country’s Heart of Darkness and on one of the most violent and dangerous journeys of his life.

About Margaret Truman

Margaret Truman won faithful readers with her biographies and her novels, particularly her Capital Crimes mysteries. Her books let readers into the corridors of power and privilege, poverty and pageantry, in the nation’s capital.

About Donald Bain

Donald Bain, the author of 115 books, including forty of the bestselling Murder, She Wrote novels, was a longtime friend of Margaret Truman. He worked closely with her on her novels, and more than anyone understood the spirit and substance of her books.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jack

3 Stars. I've always wanted to try Margaret Truman's Capital Crimes series, but #30 didn't catch fire. It was good enough for me to say there will be a next time, but that will be an early one. The tension escalates from Washington to London to Port Harcourt, but I never felt empathy for any of the......more

Goodreads review by Woody

This is the first Margaret Truman novel not written by her that I've read. It might be the last. The characters I wanted to read about were demoted to third-tier, stilted dialogue, repetitive, uneven pacing, and the entire plot seemed completely pointless. Unless the point was to constantly hammer h......more

Goodreads review by Steve

April & Jan. 2019 I was looking forward to a D.C. centric whodunit. Much of the book is either in Nigeria or dealing with the various Nigerian Prince financial frauds. Lots of repetition laying out the plot. The final 4 chapters were fine.......more

Good book. Quick read. Very intriguing.......more