Blown

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Former CIA analyst Francine Mathews has created one of the toughest female secret agents weve seen in a long time.* Using her firsthand expertise of international espionage, Mathews offers another brilliantly realized suspense novel so intense, so authentic, it lethally blurs the line between fact and fiction. In Blown, Caroline Carmichael returns in a white-hot tale of terror on the streets of Washington, where one woman must gamble her life to save her country.

As thousands of runners line up for the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, D.C., no one suspects that in a matter of hours the event will become a race between life and death. CIA analyst Caroline Carmichael is about to tender her resignation, when the first reports of a terrorist attack pour inand she instantly recognizes the hand of an enemy shes battled for years: the 30 April Organization. The neo-Nazi group is alive and well and operating in the United States, assassinating top officials and abducting a vulnerable child from the front ranks of a state funeral. When Carolines husband, Eric, is arrested in Germany as a 30 April operative, Caroline has no choice but to take to the streetsand target the evil herself.

Eric has worked as a legend for yearsa false identity so perfect, the CIA believes hes deadand gone deep undercover within the terrorist group Caroline is determined to destroy. Now his covers been blown, and Erics intimate knowledge of 30 Aprils plans makes him a target for both sides: the killers hes betrayed, and the American government hes sworn to protect.

Torn between a desire to save her husband and her duty to save her country, Caroline is drawn back into a treacherous labyrinth where trusting others is as good as suicide. For the enemy this time wears a familiar face: that of an American patriot, waving his flag alongside his gun. To stem disaster, Caroline has only one choice: to betray everyone in which she believesor everyone she loves.

For an agent without coveran agent whos blownis worse than betrayed: shes as good as dead.

*USA Today

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"Mathews, a former CIA intelligence analyst, dexterously serves up strong suspense and crisp espionage maneuvers. With Caroline Carmichael at the wheel, its a riveting, wild ride right to the nail-biting conclusion."Publishers Weekly

"Mathews makes it all impossible not to gasp at. She also makes [her heroine] Caroline Carmichael such a complicated and real person that we never doubt her existence for a moment."Chicago Tribune

"Mathews hits the ground running, coming across like an interesting mix of Robert Ludlum and Thomas Harris.... Blown is an edge-of-your-seat summertime thriller."The Denver Post

Author Bio

Francine Mathews spent four years as an intelligence analyst at the CIA, where she trained in operations and worked briefly on the investigation into the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. A former journalist, she lives and writes in Colorado, where she is at work on her next thriller, The Alibi Club.