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Book Review By Tanya
Blindfold Game by Dana Stabenow

Hugh and Sara have been married but living apart for years. Hugh is a Washington DC based CIA desk jockey and Sara is the XO about an USCG cutter. This action packed story is about how their paths cross to thwart a terrorist operation.

Hugh gathers information for the CIA and one of his contacts brings him startling news about a number of terrorists who have been seen consorting together in Thailand and Russia. Hugh puts together the information that this is a plot to drop a dirty bomb on an Alaskan city

The terrorists are getting the bomb to Alaska in different parts via shipping and fishing vessels in the Bearing Sea. Sara encounters part of their contingent unknowingly.   When Hugh is convinced of what is to happen and no one at the CIA believes him he heads to Alaska where he knows someone who will.


Plot & Themes
Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
Time/era of story:
Spying/Terrorism Thriller Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
descript. of violence and chases - 30 %
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40 %
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10 %
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 20 %
Who's the terrorist enemy here?

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status:
Age: - 40's-50's
Ethnicity/Race

Main Adversary
Identity: - an organization
Age: - 40's-50's
The antagonists are: - communists
How sensitive is this character?
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Alaska
Asia/Pacific Yes
Asian country: - Pacific Islands
Water? Yes
Water: - lifeboat - warship

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
Explicit sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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