Man in the Middle: a novel by Brian Haig

Too many wisecracks*** June 22, 2007

Sean Drummond is back, this time on assignment to the CIA. He is called to the scene of an apparent suicide of Clifford Daniels, a high-ranking Defense Department official. There he meets and eventually teams up with a stunningly beautiful female military police officer, Bian Tran. There are many red herrings along the way but Drummond figures out why Daniels died. This takes him and Tran to Iraq where events take a weird turn. The identity of Daniels' killer is a considerable surprise. This book has all the elements of an excellent novel except that Haig throws in too many wisecracks and too many detours and dead ends along the way.