Spy

By Ted Bell

Sailing up the furthest reaches of the Amazon on assignment for the British Secret Service, Alex Hawke is captured by a brutal tribe of indigenous cannibals. Forced into slave labour, he witnesses the unimaginable: vast armies are being recruited and trained deep within the Amazonian jungle. Possessing weapons only dreamed of by the Western allies, their aim is to launch a vicious jihad that will unite one continent - and destroy another. Somehow Hawke must escape his captors and live to tell the tale.

From black magic, poison-tipped arrows and blowguns to an awesome arsenal of the most advanced military hardware, Hawke faces insurmountable odds as he searches for a river with no name in a quest to seek out and destroy a lawless mastermind who threatens the West's very existence.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Release date: Sep 4, 2008
• ISBN: 9781847395658

Ted Bell

Ted Bell is the former Vice-Chairman of the board and World-Wide Creative Director of Young & Rubicam, one of the world’s largest advertising agencies. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Hawke, Assassin, Pirate, Spy, Tsar, Warlord, Phantom, and Warriors, along with a series of YA adventure novels. He lives in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Reviews for Spy

[jerry_sonenblick · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I really enjoyed this book.

[dharper1_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This was a nice book to read. It was action packed and well written. While it is fiction, there are a number of facts that were well researched. Those facts helped me engage more with the story.

[homechicken · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

In this latest Alexander Hawke adventure (this is book four), our hero is sent on a recon mission into the Amazon jungle where suspected terrorists are actively training. Hawke is captured and tortured, only to be rescued by Harry Brock at the last minute. Hawke recovers and tells his government of the danger to the US, but they downplay the importance of Hawke's intel, not believing it's a serious as he states.Meanwhile, along the Texas/Mexico border, things are heating up. More border patrol officers are being shot at by increasingly well-armed border crossing Mexicans. A sheriff in a small town finds evidence of an even larger smuggling plot that eventually leads them to a large, coordinated terrorist attack on the president during his inauguration speech. Hawke goes back to the Amazon for revenge, accompanied by Stokely and Congreve (who is decrypting an important confession letter). Congreve is captured by Muhammad "Papa" Top, the same terrorist leader that tortured Hawke. Hawke and Stokely, with some help from a few Thunder and Lightning members, infiltrate Top's jungle stronghold to stop the invasion being coordinated from there and rescue Congreve.It's quite a thrilling book, with lots of action, and very difficult to put down. I have really enjoyed the Hawke books, and hope to see more in the future. Sniper, Hawke's parrot, only had one brief mention in this book, and I had hoped to hear more about her, but perhaps next time..

[pwoodford_5 · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

A dear friend — a voracious reader who reviews books for Amazon — told me I should read Ted Bell. Perhaps I picked the wrong Ted Bell novel. Perhaps there is another author named Ted Bell. This Ted Bell is a second-rate Clive Cussler, and his hero Alex Hawke is even less dimensional than Cussler’s Dirk Pitt.This Ted Bell likes imagery: when cars accelerate, they fishtail. Always. Motorcycles, boats, airplanes too. All vehicles must fishtail! Thank goodness he didn’t work the Orient Express into the story.Fans of Lou Dobbs will love the plot: dirty brown latinos invade the USA to reconquer territory lost in the Mexican-American War, egged on by dirtier browner terrorist half-breed muslins. Chickenhawks will love the military techno-babble, especially since the author, like them, clearly knows nothing about weapons or warfare. This Ted Bell? You can have him.

[Ripley · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I enjoyed it but it wasn't as gripping as his first Hawke.

[mashak99 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Non-stop action and (for once) plausible villains make for very good entertainment. This author never disappoints and deserves more appreciation from the political thriller fans.