Pineapple Grenade by Tim Dorsey, 342 pages
Serge's latest dream is to become a spy even if he's just spying for himself, which he does by sneaking around photographing foreign consulates. When his talents for snooping around and leaving cryptic messages is discovered however the intelligence community becomes obsessed with figuring out which of them he is working for and how they can hire him to their side. Along the way a congressman convinces the CIA to continually raise the national threat level to new slightly darker colors while someone else ships weapons around the clock to rebels who are actually American agents who just want to be fed. Eventually everything reaches a climax as the plot to assassinate the president of a small South American country is exposed, except no one actually knows who the murder is supposed to be pinned on.
Dorsey continues his fast paced series complete with all of his usual insanity in this fifteenth book by giving us a great spy thriller. While just as good as most of his previous books I felt the ending of this one was a little anticlimactic and that this story could have been carried into the next book as well.
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