I quite enjoyed this story. It felt more believable than many such thrillers and had a timeline that worked where our hero took years to conclude his case rather than travelling all over the world in a week. ( )

Dan Gordon works for the US Government chasing criminals who have committed crimes such as money laundering and embezzlement. When he gets handed a 20-year old case with no new leads he doesn't realize the whirl wind that this case would take him on. He travels the world searching for the Chameleon, or at least searching for clues to find where this man has hidden.

This book was pretty good. Carmon does a great job keeping you reading. I hated when I had to set this one down. It is suspenseful, to say the least. There are lots of twists and turns, and most all of them are completely unexpected (at least I didn't see them coming). The characters are somewhat two-dimensional, with the exception of Dan Gordon, but the plot more than makes up for a small lack in character development.

Overall I'd say I liked this one. It was well written, and the situations seemed plausible to me. It was an interesting look at how a government agent gathers information and uses that information to track the bad guys. I will defiantly be getting my hands of some of Carmon's other works. ( )

One of my favorite genres of reading is espionage, spy, CIA type plots. When I started this novel and it was about tracking down money-laundering schemes and recovering the money, and the agent was an attorney from the Department of Justice. I first thought, this was not going to be my "cup of tea". Well, I was wrong. It started out slow and I almost lost interest, but it built and it built and then I could not put it down. Dan Gordon is a very believable character and you can almost feel yourself immersed in the details of unraveling the scheme.

The international flavor of moving the action from New York to Switzerland, Vienna, Iran, etc. really adds to the enjoyment of the novel. The twists and turns are not necessarily predictable, but pretty straightforward. ( )