Talia Inger is a rookie CIA case officer assigned not to the Moscow desk as she had hoped but to the forgotten backwaters of Eastern Europe–a department only known as “Other.” When she is tasked with helping a young, charming Moldovan executive secure his designs for a revolutionary defense technology, she figures she’ll be back in DC within a few days. But that’s before she knows where the designs are stored–and who’s after them. With her shady civilian partner, Adam Tyler, Talia takes a deep dive into a world where only criminal minds and unlikely strategies will keep the Gryphon, a high-altitude data vault, hovering in the mesosphere.
Even Tyler is more than he seems, and Talia begins to wonder: Is he helping her? Or using her access to CIA resources to pull off an epic heist for his own dark purposes?
In this Ocean’s Eleven-meets-Mission Impossible thriller, former tactical deception officer and stealth pilot James R. Hannibal offers you a nonstop thrill ride through the most daring heist ever conceived.
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Summary
The Gryphon Heist is an exciting adventure in the vein of Ocean’s 11, Mission Impossible and Leverage. The lead character is a female rookie CIA officer that I related to immediately. James creates a male geeky partner for her without romantic intentions. Their interactions and scenes were fun and made the characters more human.
Adam is the civilian partner with plenty of resources and talents. He convinces her boss that they should look into the security for a Moldovan executive. Talia is not excited about this babysitting assignment. However when she meets the young, charming and charismatic executive her thoughts change slightly.
Adam and Talia build a team for an epic heist you get to mean some highly skilled and crazy secondary characters. I can totally see this book playing out as a movie.
I highly recommend the book if you enjoy a con where you are trying to figure out who you can trust and who is one step ahead of who.