Brad Meltzer returns with his first solo work since 2015.  The Escape Artist tells the tale of a military mortician who teams up with the army’s artist in residence, who he knew when she was a child, to figure out what, or who, caused a plane crash that killed a friend of the President.  Can they figure out the truth before the past comes back to haunt, or kill, them?

Meltzer leaves behind his Culper Ring series to focus instead on two new protagonists, who are connected by an event in their past.  Meltzer again weaves obscure historical facts in to his tale, this time about the magician, John Wilkie, who once ran the Secret Service.

This is the 12th Brad Meltzer novel that I’ve read and I am looking forward to the next one, whether it takes 2 or 3 years.