The Power Couple
Books | Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
3.9
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Alex Berenson
From #1 New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award winner Alex Berenson comes a supercharged thriller about marriage and the dangerous secrets spouses keep.Rebecca and Brian Unsworth appear to have it all. A nice house in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Two well-behaved, healthy teenage children. Important government jobs—Rebecca working in counterterrorism for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Brian serving as a coder for the National Security Agency. Their lives stand to improve even more as Brian, in his off-hours, has just developed and sold a highly profitable app. However, the Unsworths’ marriage isn’t as perfect as it seems. After two decades together, they’ve drifted apart, talking little and having sex even less. Seeking to revive their strained relationship, they decide for their twentieth wedding anniversary to take their two kids, Kira and Tony, on a European getaway. They have a blast…until one night in Barcelona when Kira doesn’t come home from a dance club. She’s gone. Abducted. Over the course of a single weekend, the Unsworths will do everything possible to find her—as Kira herself discovers just how far she’ll go to break free of the trap that’s been set for her. And even as Rebecca and Brian come together for Kira, they realize their marriage is more tenuous than they realized. The Power Couple is both a fast-paced, globe-trotting espionage novel full of surprising twists and a nuanced look at modern marriage—the challenges of balancing career, parenthood, sex, and love.
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Author
Alex Berenson
Pages
432
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2021-02-09
ISBN
1982103698 9781982103699
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"The entire book was full of unlikable characters. I couldn’t empathize or root for any of them. The wife is a big dog with the fbi and her husband is a narcissist who finally got a job with them but on a much lower level. He gets into bed with the Russians and starts selling Intel to them. They give him 2 million but soon he wants more. While on vacation abroad the Russians kidnap his daughter but she escapes and is found. The mother blames herself because of her job and the father let’s her because he doesn’t want to go to jail. He could have helped get their daughter back without her having to escape but he chose not to so he could save himself. The self absorbed mother blamed herself because everything is always about her. She later finds out her husband is a spy but sits on the info. The husband decides to kill her because he suspects she knows and he can’t let her tell. They go on vacation again and he drugs her and throws her overboard a boat. She’s not drowning so he jumps in to finish the job. She had a needle with poison and injects him and he dies. She vows to never tell."
Elizabeth Hart
"I liked that the book didn’t end where one would usually expect. I liked Kira and Tony. I did not like their parents, apart from the feminist appreciation for strong women. I had a difficult time feeling empathy for the characters most of the time – I mean they definitely got themselves into these messes – but I was still rooting for the gal. Overall a good read and certainly well-articulated."
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Cadence Rudzinski
"Best selling author who spins an intense storyline!!"
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