A review by jfranco77
Red Cell by Mark E. Henshaw

5.0

A very enjoyable book from start to finish... the blend of espionage and fighter jets was very reminiscent of Stephen Coonts' stronger books.

Kyra Stryker is the heroine, though the story focuses on a few different characters. Kyra graduated with very high marks from the CIA's training school, but her first assignment to Venezuela fell apart unexpectedly. As she recovers, she is assigned to Red Cell, a group within the CIA tasked with investigating a brewing conflict between China and Taiwan. She works with Jonathan Burke, a curmudgeonly sort of analyst who loves to be contrarian, to analyze data from the CIA's best source inside China, and gets assigned the extraction of that agent when he is compromised.

There were several strong characters within the book, and a handful of well-linked plots. I really couldn't put this one down.