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Brett Battles is the next big thing. I've been with him from the beginning. His Jonathan Quinn novels just keep getting better and better. With each new installment we learn more about Quinn's posse--his lover, Orlando and his cleaner-in-training, Nate, and with each novel we see the larger architectonics of Battles' overarching saga as we return to old villains, old organizations and old debts that need to be repaid.

In Shadow of Betrayal Quinn is attempting to break up what appears to be a terrorist plot, a particularly nasty one, involving the use of children and explosives. Set in Ireland, Montreal, Toronto, New York, Los Angeles, China Lake, Africa and Morro Bay, the plot is both complex in its structure and simple in its conception. Orlando's nemesis, Tucker, is back, though I can't promise that he'll make it through the last reel.

The key to a Battles novel is the integration of a series of scenes, each of which involves suspense. Sometimes the suspense involves action, sometimes claustrophobia, sometimes ticking time bombs. The result is a breakneck pace that is only exceeded by Lee Child.

All three of Battles' novels are excellent; Shadow of Betrayal may well be the best, with special points for an ending which ties up the loose ends, satisfies, but still looks ahead to new elements in a continuing story. If you're ready for a sleepless night I can't think of a better way of spending it. Highly recommended.


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Shadow of Betrayal Brett Battles 9780385341585 Books Reviews

i have finally completed all the Quinn Series books and have thoroughly enjoyed each and everyone. Like the other books Brett B. Does an excellent job building each new character so that there is an emotional attachment that causes you to like or dislike them. I am glad I read several of his other books because it helped me understand the interaction between the main characters better ( Quinn, Orlando, Peter and Nate). At time it was somewhat comical. I also like that the author has portrayed Quinn and his team with a good sense of morality. All in all I would recommend this book and all the books in this series.
I'm not going to lie. I read Becoming Quinn a while ago, like at least a year. I loved Jonathan Quinn, but I had a bunch of other books in the old queue and then when I cleared them, I kind of forgot about Quinn. Last week, something jogged my memory and I picked up book 1 of this series. In the last 6 days I've read 3 of them. And had a few nights where I was up until midnight. Brett Battles, you owe me some sleep. This is the third book of the series and I loved it. Quinn's team is racing against the mysterious LP organization. And at the center are special needs children. I have a cousin with Down's Syndrome and I couldn't help but think of him. Orlando and Nate make perfect teammates. I'll be continuing with this series for sure.
In his three Jonathan Quinn novels, Brett Battles definitely has demonstrated that he belongs on center stage with the great suspense/thriller writers of today. Each of the three, "The Cleaner", "The Deceived", and now, "Shadow Of Betrayal" demonstrate Battles' ability to write highly literate, tightly plotted novels that grab the reader from the first chapter and leave him/her exhausted from the frenetic fast-paced action. The reader gets caught up in the action and prose to such an extent that time passes relentlessly yet almost unknowingly.

In "Shadow Of Betrayal", Quinn is still working off his debt to Peter and "The Office" when things spin out of control. A "cleaner" usually watches and observes unless called upon to clean up a mess that unexpectedly occurs--a clean up that might include removing evidence and clues or might include taking physical action. After a failed assignment in Ireland, Quinn is ordered to find Marion Dupuis, a UN aide, who is on the run from kidnappers with a five-year-old African child with Down syndrome.

Quinn and his small but deadly crew of Nate, his protege, and Orlando, his lover as well as an assassin, follow Marion's trail from Montreal, to Washington, D.C., to New York and ultimately to the desert and coast of California. Along the way, old nemeses reappear and, as usual, politics in Washington get in the way. Who is stealing developmentally disabled children and why? What is that shadowy organization, LP, doing in the center of things? Who is playing and manipulating whom in this thriller that contains mysteries within mysteries? It all leads to a diabolically evil plot that many readers may find disturbing in its callousness.

Battles' books can stand strongly on their plotting, pacing, and action. yet I find his style progressing with each effort particularly with the increased attention to characterization. Quinn, Nate, and Orlando have each evolved over the course of the three novels and their characters have become fully fleshed and are characters the reader really cares about. Suffice it to say that Quinn and Orlando are not people you want chasing you or seeking vengeance against you...yet they have become people this reader cares for. I strongly recommend this novel as well as the entire series.
It starts with a meeting of a fifty year old shadow organization called the LP in County Cork Ireland with the meeting and. Then moves to an abandoned church in rural area in the county where cleaner Jonathan Quinn and his apprentice Nate who work for a company called the Office are on a stakeout. Four men meeting in the church have just been shot by a sniper. Meanwhile the action moves to a tiny West African country called Cote d’Ivoire where a UN observer named Marion Dupuis is playing hide and seek from an army patrol. She made her way to an orphanage
where she was asked to take a downs syndrome little girl named Iris away to keep her safe from the army who were looking for her and others like her. It turns out that it’s not the army that wants her but a non-African group the army is working for. The plot thickens and the chase is on. It’s an interesting story that at times tugs on the heart strings.
G She made her way to an orphanage
Brett Battles is the next big thing. I've been with him from the beginning. His Jonathan Quinn novels just keep getting better and better. With each new installment we learn more about Quinn's posse--his lover, Orlando and his cleaner-in-training, Nate, and with each novel we see the larger architectonics of Battles' overarching saga as we return to old villains, old organizations and old debts that need to be repaid.

In Shadow of Betrayal Quinn is attempting to break up what appears to be a terrorist plot, a particularly nasty one, involving the use of children and explosives. Set in Ireland, Montreal, Toronto, New York, Los Angeles, China Lake, Africa and Morro Bay, the plot is both complex in its structure and simple in its conception. Orlando's nemesis, Tucker, is back, though I can't promise that he'll make it through the last reel.

The key to a Battles novel is the integration of a series of scenes, each of which involves suspense. Sometimes the suspense involves action, sometimes claustrophobia, sometimes ticking time bombs. The result is a breakneck pace that is only exceeded by Lee Child.

All three of Battles' novels are excellent; Shadow of Betrayal may well be the best, with special points for an ending which ties up the loose ends, satisfies, but still looks ahead to new elements in a continuing story. If you're ready for a sleepless night I can't think of a better way of spending it. Highly recommended.