The President’s Dossier. James A. Scott

Fans of Ludlum, Demille, and David Baldacci, stop looking for the next to spy author, he’s here. If you love those authors for their full on international espionage thrillers this book is going to be right up your street.

Max Geller is a former CIA agent that left the Company when emails, disparaging to the US President, were found on his works account. If that sounds strangely familiar then the rest of the intrigue around President Walldrum is going to sound really familiar.

Gellar is sought out by a Lawyer representing a group that wants to discredit the President. There are rumours that a dossier has been put together which carries information on how Walldum is in President Putins pocket, and that he had help getting into office.

The Dossier allegedly contains information on how Wulldrum laundered money, took illegal payments, used hookers for rough and humiliating sex, and shows his connections to Putin through the Oligarch network.

So it’s not surprising the Lawyer is offering big money and a no limits expense account.

Gellar puts together a small but efficient team and the hunt for confirmation of the information contained in the Dossiers starts.

Following the trail from America to the U.K, on to Europe and Russia, and back across the Atlantic, Geller goes full Jason Bourne. The story plot thickens as the body count mounts.

Everybody appears to want the information the team are uncovering, MI6, The CIA and the FBI, Oligarchs, and The Russian Security Services are all after Max and his team, and none of them are friendly.

Nobody can be trusted. Even Max’s closest allies in his team come under suspicion as the various agencies get way too close to Max

This book races around the world at a frantic rate, and had me turning the pages at the same speed.

It’s a real throwback to the spy stories that were popular in the 70’s and 80’, and I loved those books.

I mentioned a few authors at the start of this review and James A. Scott will sit comfortably amongst that group with this book.

If, like me, you’ve been waiting for a book like this, don’t plan on doing anything once you’ve started it, because you won’t put it down till you’ve finished it.

It’s an absolute stunner of a read and hopefully the first of many

Pages: 320

The President's Dossier is an action-filled tale revolving around suggestions of Russian influence on an American president. I enjoyed the story, reading it almost straight through. But, in my opinion, author James A. Scott didn't know when to quit He kept adding dangerous situations and deception until it became less thrilling. Not that I don't recommend it, but be prepared to wait a while before things wrap up.
Thanks, NetGalley, for the ARC.

What a Story! President Walldrum may be the President of of the United States, it does not prevent him from heading a money laundering business through his high-rise buildings and hotels, Supported by Putin who is using him like a puppet on the North and South Korea political and nuclear battle, Walldrum has no idea what is exactly going on. Max Enger, former CIA agent is hired for a big amount of money to discover Putin's machiavellian plan. James A. Scott keeps us on the edge of our seat. Is it fiction or reality? There are many reasons to believe that even if Max Enger is a fictional character, what happens to him is real. This is a great book.

Another example of the current trend to throw dirt at the American President, real or fictional, and this one is a spy novel with a good enough basic plot. The problem is the lack of suspense, as the story is written in a boring and even tone, like just following a procedure.

The story about Max Geller who was fired from the CIA is now being hired to prove the dossier on the president. He gets a crew together to help him with the assignment. The story will take him all over Europe, Russia and Panama to prove there was money laundering and bad behavior involving the president. Who wants the info to come out and who is trying to hide the info Max and his team with find. This is a work of fiction and has to be read with that in mind.

I received this book through NetGalley's program.

This story begins with Max thinking about his life since he was fired from the CIA. He meets an individual who hires him to look into verifying a dossier that paints the President in a bad light. He is looking for verification that the dossier was correct. In taking on this assignment, Max establishes a team which will work with him. In addition, he is forced to work with a person who is representing his employer. His assignment takes him to London 1st where he winds up in a dangerous situation. After gathering what facts he could he then goes to Russia, Panama and Switzerland to present his findings so that he can receive the funds he is due.

Things do not work out the way he expected and he has to take other measures. To find out what dangerous situations he runs into, who the makeup of his team is, who the individual representing his employer is, then you must read this book. You won't be disappointed.