Weaponized
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4.6 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A globe-spanning, wrong man thriller co-written by the screenwriter of the #1 film Safe House.
Kyle West is a wanted man. Having fled the country to escape the false charges filed against himself and his former boss, billionaire government contractor Christopher Chandler, Kyle's hiding in Cambodia, living on borrowed time and finding more and more reasons to be paranoid.
When a mysterious stranger named Julian Robinson walks into Kyle's favorite cafè and offers to swap passports with Kyle, Kyle can't believe his luck. Robinson looks so much like Kyle it's almost unreal, and seems in every way the yin to Kyle's yang: self-assured, charismatic and wealthy beyond measure. Traveling on business, Robinson needs Kyle's passport to get to Africa, where a lucrative deal awaits. Kyle needs Robinson's passport to safely flee Cambodia. The swap seems almost too good to be true.
Unfortunately for Kyle, it is. This one decision plunges Kyle into a Pandora's Box of intrigue that threatens to swallow him whole. Suddenly he finds himself being pursued by Russian oligarchs, Chinese operatives, the CIA, and a beautiful woman trained to kill -- all because Robinson certainly isn't who he seemed. And time is running out for Kyle to discover who he is.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Memorable prose distinguishes Mennuti and Guggenheim's excellent first novel. American Kyle West, a software genius whose algorithms linking the 9/11 terrorists impressed the U.S. intelligence community, has sought refuge in Phnom Penh, Cambodia (a city that, at night, resembles "the love child of Blade Runner and Rudyard Kipling"), after he and his boss, Christopher Chandler, become the objects of a Senate investigation. A stranger, Julian Robinson, offers a way out of life on the run by proposing that he and West swap identities, but of course things soon go awry. The authors have their fingers on the pulse of contemporary life, trenchantly observing, for example, that revolutions are outdated, because "when the revolution finally figures out what it wants, it's already too late the opposition has factored it into its own plan." That sophistication extends to the plot and characters as well, making this the rare suspense novel that will genuinely surprise jaded genre readers.
Customer Reviews
A timely thriller
An eerily prescient thriller for the post-Snowden era, about an NSA contractor in exile and on the run in lawless Cambodia. Simultaneously an homage to the classic wrong man plot and a thoroughly modern edge-of-your-seat chase story.