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A review by lorinlee
House Divided by Mike Lawson
4.0
Mike Lawson, House Divided: a Joe Demarco Thriller
Joe Demarco is a lawyer working for a member of Congress; he handles unorthodox requests. But when his cousin, who he barely knows, is murdered, Joe plunges into unorthodox operations by two government outfits, the NSA and Department of Defense. Published in 2011, before Snowden revealed the extent of NSA spying within the US, House Divided involves a secret bureau with the NSA which conducts of illegal surveillance. The Chief of Staff at the Defense Department also has a secret black op program. Demarco’s cousin, a hospice nurse, gets caught in the cross fire when he threatens to divulge some of the secrets passed along by a general on his death bed.
It’s a thriller and Lawson knows how to keep the pages turning. I liked his characterizations and the discussion of technological tools used by the NSA.
In a couple of places Lawson engages in lengthy narrative descriptions of the NSA post 9/11, what’s legal and what’s not. Much of that, I thought, could have been divulged via scenes.
Given what Snowden revealed, the imaginations here don’t seem so far fetched.
Joe Demarco is a lawyer working for a member of Congress; he handles unorthodox requests. But when his cousin, who he barely knows, is murdered, Joe plunges into unorthodox operations by two government outfits, the NSA and Department of Defense. Published in 2011, before Snowden revealed the extent of NSA spying within the US, House Divided involves a secret bureau with the NSA which conducts of illegal surveillance. The Chief of Staff at the Defense Department also has a secret black op program. Demarco’s cousin, a hospice nurse, gets caught in the cross fire when he threatens to divulge some of the secrets passed along by a general on his death bed.
It’s a thriller and Lawson knows how to keep the pages turning. I liked his characterizations and the discussion of technological tools used by the NSA.
In a couple of places Lawson engages in lengthy narrative descriptions of the NSA post 9/11, what’s legal and what’s not. Much of that, I thought, could have been divulged via scenes.
Given what Snowden revealed, the imaginations here don’t seem so far fetched.