Book: Argylle

 Book: Argylle

Author: Elly Conway

Pages: 384

This is my 63rd read for the year

This is the story of Aubrey Argylle.  A young adult who has been living a quiet life in the jungle finds himself a CIA agent sent on a very important mission. He needs to get to a Nazi hoard before a rich Russian magnate reaches it.  Argylle's parents have a troubled past but Agent Coffey of the CIA knows that Argylle's potential contribution to the mission is more vital.  Argylle is thrown in with a team who are not sure what to make of him.  And as the mission evolves, Argylle realizes there is a spy among them feeding information to the Russians.  It is a race against the clock to see who gets to the hoard first.

This was a pretty good book.  I picked it up on a whim while visiting my local library.  The show is coming to Apple TV soon so I thought reading it first might be fun.  (then I found out the movie is very different that the book - ah well).  However - the book was interesting.  I liked Argylle the character as well as several other of the characters in his CIA group.  The story moved along nicely, however the twist wasn't that exciting.  But overall a solid read.

Stars: 3.5