Conspiracy - A Book Review

Judith Tramayne’s Conspiracy is a splendid novel comprised of mystery and thriller, filled with adept narration and characterization. The story revolves around a high-level conspiracy involving IRS, FBI and Congress. The suspense in the story is breathtaking and keeps the reader at the edge of their seat until the finale.

Breanna, the protagonist of the story, is blessed with supernatural powers which she has possessed and secretly maintained after she was struck by thunderbolt at the age of thirteen, which helps her to identify any defective documents by laying her left hand on them, and the fallacious disposition of a person by placing her right hand on their signature. She can even unlock any locked doors by placing both her hands on them.

During college she finds a part-time job at Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in Seattle as an auditor to analyzes the tax returns and identify the authenticity of returns submitted, which she could do with tremenderous speed and spellbound accuracy using her special powers. Becoming an asset to IRS, she also becomes a close friend to Andrea Hamilton-Black, her superior, owing to their commonality – Andrea’s physic powers. Life is so smooth and Breanna enjoys her job and Andrea’s nepotism until on a meeting with Andrea on the Thanksgiving Day, where she finds out from her, about the conspiracy at the upper echelon of IRS on the misconduct of tax enforcement.

Soon after Andrea reveals the conspiracy to Breanna, she and her newly wed husband Scott were found dead in a hotel while honeymooning. Breanna determined to punish the killers of her best friend-mentor, starts her investigation to find the murderers and soon supported by Alex, Andrea’s son and an active columnist of the Washington-Post and Stone Reeves, an FBI agent, but actually a mole for the Justice Department, with whom she falls in love, in her pursuit. An attempt on Breanna life is also made. Someone wants to eliminate her desperately. Before it is too late, they had to get closer to the killer.

With danger surrounding them all around, the trio takes help of Adrienne, the lover of Alex who put them under the charge of her uncle, Jake, an antagonist of the government and wanting a revolutionary changes to the current constitution. All of them with Jack’s supporters join hands together to expose the high-level conspiracy, with their enemies hot on their tracks to find them and stop them before Alex exposes the conspiracy to the outer-world through his power of media.

The Climax is about whether their mission to put and end to the conspiracy and reform the government is accomplished, and all their attempts to safeguard themselves from their adversaries are successful.

Conspiracy is truly a gripping novel, enchanting the readers with its skillful recitation of actions.