Apr 2016
The Man Who Stole the World - Part 4
By Ed Brubaker, Steve Epting, Elizabeth Breitweiser
Colt shows up. Max is dead. Colt learns what he can from the dead bodies and security camera footage. He reports back to Senator Hildebrandt and Simonson on his inconclusive findings.
Velvet looks for answers. She wants them from President Richard Nixon, about the Watergate break-in. She blackmails Vice President Gerald Ford into helping her abduct the President right out of the White House. She takes him down into the Metro tunnels that run near the White House. The Metro isn’t open yet but construction is under way. She interrogates him there after drugging him and gets the answers she needs. She now understands what Damian Lake is up to.
I’m still enjoying the book but it has risen to a new level of ridiculous. Much more James Bond than George Smiley but then I guess it always was. There’s just something about seeing her break into the White House and kidnap the Nixon that crossed a line that it felt like the book hadn't before.
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