Fate Of The Union – Max Allan Collins with Matthew V. Clemens

For the second installment in the Reeder and Rogers series, Max Allan Collins returns, along with co-author Matthew V. Clemens, to the Washington beltway for another round of political intrigue that puts the US government at risk.  Former Secret Service agent Joe Reeder teams up again with FBI agent Patti Rogers on the death of an old colleague and a serial killer case the FBI has been working, eventually determining that they are one case.  They need to find the killer, and whoever has hired him, before he wipes out the entire government during the State of the Union address.

To be honest, I was a little concerned when Collins brought in a co-writer this early in the series run.  But, the two have worked together previously and the two put together another tight story here, so it turned out I had nothing to worry about.  There’s a third installment out there, which I will have to keep an eye out for on the Kindle deals site.