Infamy

By Tom Milton

Fenly Aquino, an American security agent, is working in Madrid with Raquel L pez, a member of a Spanish security team that has heard about a planned terrorist attack. The plot involves the use of laundered money to buy weapons of mass destruction that will be directed at a target in New York City. The key to stopping the attack is to find the trail of money and follow it to the source of the weapons. They have only two weeks to stop the attack, so time is running out on them as they desperately try to unravel the plot.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0979457955
• ISBN13: 9780979457951
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Nepperhan Press, LLC
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Couldn't Put it Down

This is another book by Tom Milton set against the backdrop of the major crises of my adult years (1960-present). In this book the crisis is the one signaled by the attempted bombing and later knocking down of the World Trade Center Towers in New York City. The author knows the New York area well- he lives and works there - and the workings of the banking world where he has had actual experience. Both areas of knowledge serve him well in this book which tells the story of an experienced Homeland Security Officer (Fenly) who is assigned to help a Spanish security team stop another terrorist attack which is financed by laundered money. For this reader, the story is riveting and revealing. I learned how money laundering works and the character of critical players in the terrorist world: poor young women who sell sex for living, cutthroat young men who work as pimps as well as money carriers, and others. Throughout the story the author refers to spiritual virtues which resonate. One cannot achieve peace through war (violence?); if you want peace work for social justice. Fenly's life is itself testament to this principle as it is saved by the intervention of a person (Stephen Wyatt) who works out of a center providing useful services to the community. That intervention results in Fenly (whose mother is an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, whose father has left the family) learning how to study, getting accepted at Princeton, and doing worthwhile work. I highly recommend this book

a riveting read

I just finished reading "Infamy," a novel by Tom Milton. It is fascinating, an attention holding read about the terrorizing and unpredictable time in which we live. It deals with the emotional and political turbulence caused by 9/11, a search to unravel a terror plot, several intriguing relationships involving trust and cultural differences, fear, and ultimately love. The non-stop action takes place in NYC, Madrid and Yonkers, NY. The cultural differences are charming and educational, at least to me. The author weaves the protagonists personal story into the plot and this becomes an additonal important and interesting story. It is hard to put this book down. The book is well written. Milton can be funny as when he tells a prostitute whose room he is investigating that he won't be long. She allows that it is rare to hear that statement from a man! His descriptions can be visceral and pungent as when he describes the odor in her room as "laden with the rank smell of human effluence - an odor of despair that no perfume, no spray could cover." The motives and behavior of some of the characters could be described in a similar fashion, though as in all Milton books, the heights of human decency are underscored. The windup is shocking. This book is enjoyable, chilling and challenging.

A riveting novel

In the face of terror, any differences can be quickly set aside. "Infamy" tells the story of Fenly Aquino and Raquel Lopez, two individuals working as a union of America and Spain in stopping a terrorist plot that seems to be targeting New York City once more. To find justice, they will have to find it through the criminal underworlds of both their countries, making "Infamy" a riveting novel.