{"id":19559,"date":"2022-11-10T16:08:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T22:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=19559"},"modified":"2022-11-10T16:08:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T22:08:45","slug":"book-47-of-52-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/book-47-of-52-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 47 (of 52) – Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Edge – Jeffery Deaver<\/p><\/div>\n

In the stand-alone novel Edge<\/em>, an agent for a secret government agency, tasked with protecting US citizens who have been targeted by mercenaries who will either kidnap, torture, threaten, blackmail, or even kill, is assigned to protect a local cop and his family from the man who killed his mentor.\u00a0 While trying to keep his charges safe, the agent works to find out how he can capture his nemesis and figure out who has hired him to target the family under his protection.\u00a0 Can he figure out which family member is the target before it is too late?<\/p>\n

This is the third one-off work from Jeffery Deaver that I’ve read, following The Devil’s Teardrop<\/em><\/a> and The Blue Nowhere<\/em><\/a>, and the best thing I can say about all of them is that I would be willing to go on another adventure with the characters if he was.\u00a0 In this outing, he (I presume) makes up a secret government agency or two and gives them a reason for being.\u00a0 While I can see how a second go-around has the potential to be monotonous, I think there is enough there to do another version in a different enough way to be entertaining.\u00a0 But, after twelve years, I assume that ship has sailed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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