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Gordon Kent the Falconer S Tale

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Jerry Piat, a renegade CIA agent and small time dealer in bogus antiquities, has also been a bit player in this series of Alain Craik adventures by Gordon Kent. In this story he finally gets his chance to be a full time player in both avocations. One of his old bosses at CIA contacts him to recruit another former agent for a new assignment. Piat doesn't think this guy to be outstanding material, but he does as he's told (there's money in it). It turns out this new agent is an expert in falconry; all he can talk about are his birds. But he grows on Piat and on the reader.

Meanwhile Al Craik and his long time friend Mike Dukas of NCIS are trying to figure out why CIA wants Jerry. It turns out there's a rogue operation going on. I won't tell you what happens, but it's exciting and Jerry turns out to be a good guy after all. There's a hint at the end that Al may soon have to retire from Naval intelligence. I, for one, hope his retirement is long postponed.

This was most certainly not an adventure in reading if you wanted a fast moving, interesting read.

I could not read more than a few pages at a time, and I normally read a full book every two days.

I am not interested in how to train a falcon, but at least finally in the last pages of the book, it became interesting.