[.ca] Condor (ISBN 2251771727)

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Known primarily as a writer of horror fiction, Masterton enters the Ken Follett/Robert Ludlum field with CONDOR. Masterton weaves a masterfully tale involving three groups of people and how their stories end up coming together. Senator Reynard Kelly is poised to become the next president of the United States. Kelly has some deep dark secrets however going back to the time of World War II. He also has a mistress named Chiffon and a wife, Greta, who has left him unofficially. Kelly bribes his wife to come back and be his first lady, and sends Chiffon to a different fate, although not the one he planned. Nine year old Michael Osman while playing in nearby woods stumbled upon the wreckage of a WWII aircraft. He finds the dead crew and six vials of some mysterious liquid. Hours later, the boy is dead and an epidemic of terrifying proportion is unleashed. In Sweden, a British vacationer named Humphrey recognizes Hermann, a Nazi fugitive; he is soon joined by operative Bill Bennett in tracking down this infamous criminal. How all these stories weave together makes for some interesting and provocative, as well as exciting, reading. Masterton is to be commended for this intricate plotting, and in-depth characterizations. A good read!