Mandrake

by Paul Eddy

Book Overview

Critics everywhere fell in love with undercover cop Grace Flint. Said the Cleveland Plain Dealer, "She's brave beyond words, troubled, stubborn-she's so real, and yet so larger-than-life, that she... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0747271178
• ISBN13: 9780747271178
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Headline
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Second one's just as good as the first.

Paul Eddy, Flint's Law (Putnam, 2002) Grace Flint is back, something for which we should all be happy. If you missed Paul Eddy's first novel, Flint, go find it and read it before you take this one on. Both of them are page-turners well worth your time and attention. It's an unspecified amount of time after the events of Flint. Grace, newly-married, is now living in America, working with old pal Aldus Cutter on the Financial Strike Force. They've been going after Karl Grober, code name Hustler, for a while now, and the big drop is about to occur. Things, as they say, go horribly wrong, resulting in the death of an agent and a lot of recrimination among the team. Grace discovers the leak, but can't bring herself to believe it is who all the signs point to it being; nevertheless, she has to hunt him down and find out what's going on before the FSF loses Hustler for good, and she's out of a job. Eddy knows what he's doing with the conventional thriller. All the elements are there, but it never feels like a retread; this is good, solid genre writing, on a par with early Ludlum. If you're a fan of the genre, and have not yet discovered Paul Eddy, you're going to like what you see. *** ?

Mandrake - four and half stars

"Mandrake" (I use the UK title of this book.) is a couple notches better than "Flint". While that was sometimes very confusing, with all the flitting back from past to present, and all the to-ing and fro-ing of the various fraudulent monies, and lots and lots of characters who all seem to meld into one. This one is far better. It's still confusing, at times, but not nearly as much. The writing is brilliant...its incredibly compelling and powerful, written in a tense, brutally efficient and to-the-point style. The book speeds all over the globe, from the US to Croatia and the pace never lets up. The characters are mercifully fewer, and are slightly better developed. the plot is complex and interesting. I can certainly reccomend this book.

superb thriller

The Financial Strike Force is an international organization that focuses on money laundering on a global scale. Grace Flint, FSF Assistant Director is poised to bring down German crime czar Karl Groeber but it turns sour when an agent is killed. Grace takes this personally because she personally recruited the operative.After going over the failed investigation, it becomes apparent that someone with insider knowledge sold them out. That person is Grace's husband Ben. It turns out that there is no record to prove that Grace's husband ever existed, which means he was a spy designed to get close to Flint. When Ben causes Grace's father grievous injuries she vows to hunt him down and bring him to justice even if it means going through Karl Groeber to do it.Grace Flint is a flawed imperfect heroine who endears herself to the audience because of her willingness to take responsibility for her actions. Except for her, it's hard to tell the heroes from the villains in FLINT'S LAW because most of the players have their own agenda and alliances. The story line compulsively compels readers to finish this tale in one sitting. It will be very hard to wait for the next installment in this dynamic new series.Harriet Klausner