I just finished reading The 9th Man, "a Luke Daniels Thriller," by Steve Berry and co-author Grant Blackwood. Berry has written 17 Cotton Malone thrillers, featuring a retired government agent living in Copenhagen, who owns an antiquarian bookstore, but is frequently called back to his former agency, the Magellan Billet, for special assignments. This time, however, the story features one of his Magellan Billet sidekicks, Luke Daniels, who gets a call from an old friend, Jillian Stein, who has unwittingly drawn the attention of a sinister group that wants to keep a secret about the Kennedy assassination buried at all costs. The action moves from Belgium to Luxembourg to Louisiana to Wyoming, with a grand finale in the Bahamas. The story was fast paced, with a surprise ending, and I enjoyed it, but in my opinion, Daniels just does not have the charisma of Cotton Malone. It is definitely worth reading, but I still have to ask when the next Cotton Malone will be coming out? Soon, I hope.
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