The God Project

Politicians, a televangelist, and Malcolm Keyes, of eidetic memory, encounter a CIA project that will permit the government to send forces into a foreign country without any public repercussions at all, but the Project has disappeared

This political thriller gets off to a strong start as Malcolm Keyes, an ad-man with perfect visual and aural memory, is named executive assistant to newly elected liberal President Richard Halliday. After Keyes gets wind of a top-secret CIA plan called the GOD project, Halliday and beautiful Vice President Madeleine Smith assign him to sniff it out further. He learns that the CIA is searching for a missing man, involved with the project, who may be leftist televangelist John Burns, but who also may be Keyes himself. Feuding with one another as they fend off the new administration's incursions, CIA officials authorize kidnaps here and wiretaps there. Keyes and the v-p develop a romantic relationship, while the investigations of a Russian agent parallel Keyes's own. Unfortunately, the more we learn about the GOD project, the larger Lee's ( Dunn's Conundrum ) soapbox looms, as his characters preach lengthy ideological sermons, turning what could have been a suspenseful, witty, thoughtful adventure into a tiresome rant.
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Hearing rumors of a CIA secret weapon called the GOD Project, incoming U.S. President Richard Halliday calls on political campaign aide Malcom Keyes to use the powers of his incredible photographic memory to sort out the villains and uncover the plot. Readers who enjoyed Lee's first novel, Dunn's Conundrum (LJ 12/84), can look forward to another hilarious romp through a series of comical scenes masquerading as an espionage thriller. The characters are carefully drawn and the action continuous. The book offers comic relief for serious spy thriller fans and fun reading for the rest of us. Enthusiastically recommended for all popular fiction collections.
- Brian Alley, Sangamon State Univ. Springfield, Ill.
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