The Traitor

TLDR: “A fun page-turner. Nothing too deep. Very predictable.”

Book review by Deane Barker • • tags: fiction, spies •
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Like the first book in the series, this is a fun spy novel. Emma Makepeace is a James Bond-ish woman working for a secret agency inside MI6.

This one takes place largely on a yacht on the Cote D’Azur. There are scary Russians, commandos, spies, and intrigue.

It’s not a dark or a deep novel. It’s…breezy? It reads quickly and doesn’t demand a lot from you. There’s not a lot of additional characterization of Emma in this novel compared with the first one.

I just noticed that author has written a third installment.

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Book Info

Author
Ava Glass
Year
Pages
336
Acquired

This book belongs to a collection I am tracking: Emma Makepeace Novels

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