Laura Jay 0:01
Hello gentle readers. Welcome to Book Club Reporter Book Reviews Podcast. I’m your host and Book Club Reporter, Laura Jay. This is Season 2 - Episode 26. Today I am sharing with you my book review of Deep Cover by John Deboer, D-E-B-O-E-R.
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Okay! First let me say I do not read many spy thriller stories. Why? Because they scare the hell out of me. Author John L. DeBoer’s spy thriller novel, Deep Cover, is a perfect example of a story that puts my self-defense senses on high alert.
Would a story like this have frightened me twenty years ago? Most probably, not. But, I am reading Deep Cover during a time when the current state of the U.S.A. seems like it’s in some kind of crazy furor. And not just on two different sides, but on many different sides. Today’s politics don’t seem like the two-party system I learned about in school.
Laura Jay 01:58
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Laura Jay 03:24
Hey, okay, let’s get back to our show now. Okay, well we left off with me saying that American politics just doesn’t seem like the two-party system that I learned about in school. Right now, I feel like the state of American politics is like one of those crazy wrestlers’ cage matches. Instead of just two wrestlers though, it’s like throwing a crowd of wrestlers into the cage. Then it’s every person for themselves. It’s like the direct opposite of dancing in the street.
My take on Deep Cover could be completely off base, but as I said, I don’t read many spy thrillers. DeBoer has expertly written a fast paced thriller novel. Deep Cover will get you where you live. The story revolves around spies meddling in the politics of other countries. And also paints what is probably a very accurate portrait of Russian spies who were placed in the U.S.A. and have been here for fifteen years.
Fifteen years is a long time. I moved from New York City to Texas, and in less than a year, I had affected a darn good Texas accent. And…I loved it! I think it was Neil Diamond who sang, “New York’s home, but it ain’t mine no more.” Well, that’s the way I felt about it. Along that same vein, Deep Cover mentions a John Wayne movie. My family has been on a John Wayne movie kick here lately. I am familiar with the John Wayne movie, The Searchers. Deep Cover contains a reference to the movie likening the part of a young girl, played by Natalie Wood, to the lives of the Russian spies living in America. The girl had been captured by the Indians and she lived with the Indians, as an Indian for many years. She was an Indian. The similarity to how Natalie Wood became assimilated into the Native American culture and came to identify with the Indian way of life reflects the situation in the lives and feelings of many of the foreign spies who have lived in America for so long. I could see how that fact alone could serve to create a culture of self-sabotage by the spies who have been living comfortably for so long.
John DeBoer has written an intelligent and compelling spy thriller. Deep Cover is an absorbing and action-packed story. DeBoer makes the reader think. Deep Cover is an exceptional thought-provoking read.
Laura Jay 05:49
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