The Machiavelli Covenant by Allan Folsom

Outlandish plot*** March 5, 2007

Put together a former LAPD exile, a beautiful French journalist and the US President, stir wildly and this is what you get. Nicholas Marten comes back from hiding in Europe at the request of Caroline Parsons who claims to have been infected by a mysterious virus and believes her Congressman husband and child were killed in a planned plane crash. Nicholas pledges to investigate these sinister forces. Meanwhile the US President is presented by his top advisors with a request to assassinate the leaders of France and Germany and then unleash biological weapons upon an unsuspecting Muslim world. The President realizes that if he doesn't carry out the desires of his erstwhile friends he will be killed and the plan will proceed so he escapes from his handlers. He teams up with Martens and together they unravel the plans of a secret cult of the powerful.

This book is much too long. The dialogue often seems contrived. an ok read but nothing great.