Matthew Quirk brings to life an invigorating lockdown thriller that brings to mind Vince Flynn’s incredible Transfer of Power in all the best ways. Inside Threat is one of the finest powerhouse thrillers you’re going to read this year.
Erik Hill is contemplating the downfall of his extraordinary but murky career in the Secret Service when a deep-rooted threat to the President requires relocation of the President and a handful of Secret Service agents to a doomsday bunker. What Hill and his team don’t completely cover is the possibility of an inside following the President into the bunker, creating the setting for a suspenseful locked-bunker thriller where Hill and his trained agents must uncover the threats among them while escorting the President to safety without truly knowing who to trust.
Inside Threat is set up and executed marvelously by Quirk who hits the ground running with a fast-paced evolution of the plot from the very beginning. This is done so without compromising the emotional integrity of the narrative as we get appealing glimpses into Hill’s past that not only break any possible mundanity in an action-heavy story but also make him a genuinely likable protagonist.
What I found most distinctive about Inside Threat was how vividly Quirk describes the intense situations. From the moment the threat surfaces and all the way to the resolution, every page carries along a note of danger, excitement, anxiety, and an eager drive to captivate readers with a whodunit element. As Hill and his team worked together to uncover the threats while safeguarding the President, I couldn’t help but sit in ecstatic anticipation, much like how I had sat transfixed while reading how dangerously the events of Vince Flynn’s Transfer of Power unfolded; both with the lives of Presidents at stake, both with a perspiring uncertainty of how it would all go down, and Ofcourse both packing heavy firepower in the hands of a powerful protagonist.
If The Night Agent instilled an awe of Quirk’s writing abilities, Inside Threat cements his prowess at tackling creative conspiracy-action thrillers that hold their own with the best of the best.
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