Hunt the Lion (Sam Callahan, 3)

The CIA, FBI, Russian gazillionaire, the Gray Wolf 🐺, and the Lion 🦁, all come into play in this international political thriller that is amazingly hard-to-put-down! Sam Callahan is the star of the show, but he has been lying to his fiancée for a month or so, while he trains for a covert mission with the CIA. There is only one reason he is doing this; he needs to be close to the Lion!

Sam is a lawyer with lots of street smarts from an unfortunate childhood, and an “uncanny ability to remain calm in a highly stressful situation”. This thriller is very complex and easy to get the characters confused with each other. Maybe, take notes. 😀 From Washington D.C., to London, to Russia, and back, the action is high-speed and exciting. References and information from the previous books in the series are not necessary, I felt, as it didn’t add much to this storyline. So basically, this book stands alone well. Then again, these characters are so likable I’m thinking of reading the first 2 Sam Callahan books anyway. I learned 2 things. This author likes to assign animal names to characters, and this is an imaginative and entertaining read!