The Rhythm Section - Softcover
A terrorist with multiple personalities doesn't count on falling in love.
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Mark Burnell was born in Britain and grew up in Brazil. He now lives in London and is currently working on his next novel.
After the death of her parents and brother in a plane crash over the Atlantic, Stephanie Patrick descends into a life of prostitution and dissolution. She begins to pull herself together when a journalist tells her that the crash was no accident, that it was a terrorist bombing covered up by the world's intelligence agencies. Then the journalist is murdered, and Stephanie is recruited into a shadowy law enforcement agency to become a killer. If the plot of this first novel sounds a little like the movie and TV series La Femme Nikita, that's understandable. But Burnell manages to inject some new life into the tired premise. Stephanie is a tough, resilient heroine, seriously challenged by the multiple personalities she's forced to don, while focused laserlike on avenging her family's death. Even the terrorists emerge as more than cardboard cutouts, especially in the climactic scene in which Stephanie confronts her antagonist. What begins as a B-movie knockoff ends as an entertaining meditation on the futility of terrorist brinkmanship. George Needham
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- PublisherHarper Collins
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0002259168
- ISBN 13 9780002259163
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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