Blurb:
Jake
Boxer, investigative journalist and host of the conspiratorial news show
Bullseye, is in serious trouble. Not only is his soundman murdered by Russian
intelligence agents while reporting on a secretive New World Order, but his
network cancels his show, leaving Jake humiliated and spiraling into a deep
dark depression.
Years
later, a condemned murderer, who claims he was abandoned by the CIA, and who
starred in an early episode of Bullseye, is finally executed for killing two
supposed Soviet spies back in the 1970’s.
Jake
Boxer, still trying to piece his life back together, is on his honeymoon in a
posh ski resort in the Alaskan mountains when he gets word of the inmate’s
execution…and the old killer’s final words: “The good spy dies twice.”
Those
five words, seemingly meant for Jake, draw the ex-reporter out of his forced
retirement and into a complex and deadly global conspiracy involving his
newlywed wife, the secretive New World Order, and the hotel’s hundred or so “guests.”
Everyone
is a suspect.
Described
as James Bond in a Stephen King novel, The
Good Spy Dies Twice is the explosive first book in the Bullseye Series.
Part spy thriller, part whodunit, this fast-paced novel introduces an exciting
new hero, the intrepid, conspiratorial journalist, Jake Boxer.
About the Author:
Mark
Hosack is the author of The Good Spy Dies
Twice (Book 1: The Bullseye Series), and Identity (Simon & Schuster). He also wrote on the web series Sequestered for Sony Crackle, the
screenplay for Give ’Em Hell, Malone (Thomas Jane, Ving
Rhames), and he both wrote and directed the award wining independent film Pale Blue Moon. Mark lives in Los
Angeles with his wife and a brood of gremlins who insist on calling him Dad.
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Review:
The Good Spy Dies Twice was a pretty good
read. At times it was difficult to tell what was real and what Jack Boxer was
hallucinating, but as he followed the bodies and the clues uncovering a
conspiracy that reached back to the 1970s, it was difficult to tell the good
guys from the bad. He wasn’t even sure he could trust his bride. After all, she’d
been in love with his soundman who was killed in Russia. Why had she chosen a remote
mountain in Alaska that had ties to the Cold War? Why did she insist on skiing
a double black-diamond trail knowing he wasn’t that good? Where did she
disappear to the rest of the day?
When
Jack was injured in a ski-lift accident, I found it somewhat difficult to
believe some of the feats he mastered with a broken back. I was amazed he didn’t
manage to become at least a paraplegic. But then, I guess it depends on the
type of fracture the vertebrae sustained, and he didn’t get up until after a
surgeon removed the splinters from his spine. Still, even popping pills and
fighting the pain strained a bit of my credibility.
At
any rate, if you’re looking for a rather eerie thriller, The Good Spy Dies Twice is it.
Author Website: http://markhosack.com
Heat Rating: R
Length: 336 Pages
Prices:
Print: $15.95
Digital: $4.99
Hardcover:
$29.95
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