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The Amateur: A Novel of Revenge by Robert Littell
The hero is a cryptographer with the CIA in America whose girlfriend becomes the victim of a hostage-taking that goes wrong. He decides to take his revenge by hunting out and killing the perpetrators. The publisher's blurb, in my view, is not justified in claiming that the author is in the same class as Le Carré but nevertheless I found this thriller an enjoyable light read and recommend it as such.
(Jeremy Swann - bwl 34 April 2006 )