Noel Hynd, The Enemy Within

The Enemy Within

Noel Hynd

Forge, March 2006, $25.95

ISBN: 0765306123

In 2009, because she is a female Presidential Protection Detail Secret Service Agent, Laura Chapman is tasked to stop a paid assassin from killing the President. Little is known about the assailant except that he is male and a secret service agent.

Thirty something Laura begins her investigation by tracking down the source of the tip, a person who used the name "Charley Boy". Laura learns that Charley Boy is actually hooker Anna Muang, who overheard a client explaining the hit on POTUS. As Laura continues to dig for the blond evil, she finds herself racing against time and not getting any closer. Who amongst her peers has the audacity to accept $10 million from an enemy foreign government to kill the president of the United States?

THE ENEMY WITHIN is an exhilarating thriller that never slows down from the moment that Laura learns her gender gives her the assignment, until the final showdown inside the White House. Though the action-packed storyline contains too many sidebars that enable the audience to also better understand the motives of the heroine, the countdown threat to the assassination keeps the audience enthralled, as increasingly it looks like the rogue agent will succeed. Noel Hynd provides an edge of the seat thriller to his many fans.