The Skorpion Directive

excellent espionage thriller

CIA "cleaner" Micah Dalton is in Vienna meeting with former-Mossad field operative Issadore Galan when he feels something is not right. Used to cleaning up the mess of failed operations, he fears he will need a cleaner too, as he quickly realizes that he is under surveillance by unknown assumed to be hostile enemies. Not one to sit back and wait, Micah catches one of them, Veronika Miklas.

After sex, he flees with her accompanying him following a failed assault on him. Someone wants Micah dead, but he is unsure why; especially since his CIA contacts and handlers are part of the death squad pursuers. He turns to his alcoholic psychopathic friend Ray Fyke to insure he has his back covered. As the trio travels to the Balkans, the former KGB assassins, an American top secret agency, other espionage groups, and Smoke the Serbian killer follow with death to the threesome as their mantra.

The latest Cleaner espionage thriller (see The Venetian Judgment, The Echelon Vendetta and The Orpheus Deception) is a great conspiratorial story line filed with action, action and more action. The cast is especially powerful including the enigmatic killing machine Smoke while the locales enhance the exciting plot. Genre fans will enjoy The Skorpian Directive as someone high up has decided to clean the cleaner.

Harriet Klausner

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Too predictable

I have really enjoyed this series up until this one. This book felt too much like "more of the same". It felt like I had already read it. I enjoy the characters but they need to be put into a totally new atmosphere.

Pretty Good, Until...

I agree with Publishers Weekly that a "limp ending" was a major flaw to this otherwise highly enjoyable novel. Putting one of the characters in a Venetian jail also seemed to be a limp way to get her out of the picture once the author was done with her. But don't let these flaws keep you from reading the novel. I liked it most of the way, and the ending is arguably okay, so go along for the ride and have a good read.

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