The Lost Key: A Brit in the FBI, Book 2

This book is "a real page-turner." It starts off with charming and colorful background for a great cast of characters and quickly goes to ground with a fast paced mystery. Nicholas Drummond is a British in the FBI. He is also a computer genius and man of action. His partner at the FBI is Michaela Caine, experienced agent and woman of great personal strength and courage. The two work smoothly together. Nicholas and Mike form a partnership in this story which lays a foundation for future adventures and leaves the reader wanting to have more time in their world. I recommend this book to anyone who is willing to suspend disbelief and spend a few hours unable to put the novel down! This book has charming characters, a plot with constant twists and turns, international settings and a maniacal arch villain. A fun read.

What the hell? I could read earlier books on my Kindle in the left-aligned format, but this one comes up with justified margins and says it can't be changed. That is unacceptable. I will update after reading the book, but this is a very annoying situation. I basically paid $400 to get the Kindle that allows left-aligned margins and now I'll have some books that prevent it? Sheesh.OK, I do like this series, although I don't understand Coulter's penchant for calling out song titles as ring tones. Anyway, it's nice to have more FBI thriller novels with new characters and less involvement with children. I like the relationship between Nicholas and Mike, and all the action and skills they get involved with. There is no need for them to become romantically involved, although I'm sure it will come to that. I also like not being able to figure out the ending. I do wonder about one other oddity, though. I first noticed the use of "bespoke" in the Agent Pendergast series by other authors, and now I'm seeing it in Coulter's FBI and Brit series. What's up with that? The word "custom" is just fine for clothing, or even "tailor-made" if you want to be fancy..."bespoke" is just antiquated and supercilious, and when you start using it even for pants, that's just weird.

this book should have been about 200 pages shorter. The story line was repeated multiple times through out the book. In one chapter there was a conversations between to people in the next chapter the conversation was repeated word for word as heard by a third person. this went on thru the entire book. I did not think the first book was that good but I always like to give things a chance. this second book was terrible. There is no way any on or two people can live through what the author wrote in a life time let alone 2 days. To bad because I have been reading the Sherlock and Savich books since they came out. Save your moneyStick with what you know.

Nicholas and Mike could be my new favorites right alongside Sherlock and Savich. This one has everything—a terrific cast of characters with depth, a great storyline, well thought out plot, action, adventure, and suspense. Something for everyone. It will grip you by the throat and hold on all the way to the end.

This is a great story, with heroes, heroines, bad guys, very bad guys, intriguing subplots, secret society, and just the right touch of romance. I loved it. Every time I put it down to attend to duties I groaned. it has A couple of minor copy edit misses, and a magical Low Earth Orbit synchronous satellite that defies all the laws of orbital physics. A LEO satellite cannot be geosynchronous. A LEO satellite travels very fast and flies a complete circuit around the Earth every ninety minutes. If it didn't it would fall to Earth. But what the heck, it is a fiction story.

The Lost Key had much to recommend it. The main characters--Nicholas Drummond and his FBI partner, Michaela Caine- are gifted and very spunky, and the bad guys are ferocious! It's quite exciting as they try to solve two murders and unravel a clue they have been given--"the key is in the lock". Two young people, quite brilliant, the children of one of the murdered men, add a lot to the story.BUT, the book is awfully long, and the hero, Nick, is way too perfect. His partner calls him James Bond because he is a Brit who is newly trained as a FBI agent, but he reminds me of Batman, mansion, butler,and all. There is also maybe too much dependence on real and rather unreal 21st century technology innovations--it roams into sci-fi land, where I don't really like to go.One excellent addition is quite a bit of information about Marie Curie, one of whose discoveries figures in the plot.

I`m very happy that the Nicholas Drummond character is going to be a continuing part of this long standing series. It was clear in the book that introduced him that Nicholas is a different type of protagonist than Dillon Savitch. While both are computer geniuses, there's a much harder edge in Nicholas - the kind that exists in military snipers and covert operatives. People who do the jobs that the majority of us don't want to acknowledge as real. Both Savitch and Drummond regret the act of killing, but Drummond doesn't hesitate to use his hands, face to face, - a different mindset than a gun. This story is a cross between James Bond and the F.B.I. It's action oriented, informative (if taken with a grain of salt) and an easy read. The reason I've given it four stars - ironically, while the authors have succeeded in differentiating Drummond from Savitch, they've simply duplicated Sherlock in Michaela Caine. I hope that in future books the female author will make a concerted effort to give Michaela the individuality that is due to her female characters as well as her male characters. Please, we are not made from cookie cutter molds.

Lots of action and suspense as always with her book you get involved early on and then want to read more

Very Good Book. Will use company again

Good book great story.

Nicholas Drummond, the hero of this saga is a titled Brit; a James Bond clone minus the original's libido. His partner, Mike, is a female FBI agent whose masculine name is an unnecessary distraction. The plot is well known and so frequently travelled as to be a cliche in its own right. It depicts a mad scientist prepared to launch a nuclear weapon on the world in order to achieve ultimate power. Needless to say his plans are foiled by our intrepid heroes: Nicholas and Mike. The dialogue is often embarrassingly corny and clunky, full of cliches and sycophantic references to the manners and customs of the British upper class. Our hero even has his own butler. The only reason I've given it two stars is that I made it to the end.

Could have been much better if the science behind the story had been more believable. Science fiction requires a certain level of believability and should build on existing science. Concepts like compounds, elements, radioactivity, triggers and nuclear bombs are not discussed correctly; 100 years old muriatic (hydrochloric) acid in an open beaker!, etc. It would have been easy to fix these problems with a bit of research, rather than trying to explain things using scientific terms that the authors did not understand. The implants were believable, but not the chemistry/physics.