Corte is an elite Federal protection officer. In the vernacular of his agency, he is a "shepherd." In this story, he is responsible for safeguarding the family of a Washington, D.C. police detective. Intelligence has revealed that the "lifter," Henry Loving, who six years earlier tortured and killed Corte's mentor, Abe Fallow, is targeting them. An academic and and aficionado of board games, Corte matches wits with Loving in a dangerous duel of strategy, deduction, deception, and calculated risk-taking.
I am not a big fan of Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme series, but I loved this book. The suspense, the action, and the pace of events combined to produce a very enjoyable plot. The characters were well developed and interesting. The reader experiences events from Corte's viewpoint and familiarity with the Federal officer protagonist grows as the story progresses. I appreciated both the view into his reasoning skills that make him so good at his job and the glimpses into his background and inferences about his personal life that make him fascinating as a person. In my opinion, this is one of the better books that I have read recently.
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