The Spy's Daughter, Brookes - B+

                                            This, the third book in this series, confirms the author as an up-and-comer in the spy thriller genre. Following up on a name and address from the previous book, Mangan obtains a lead in Suriname that brings him to Washington, D.C., where he and Patterson unearth a plot by the Chinese to use the talents of a college student with a brilliant mind and a job at a firm that focuses on AI. Young Pearl was brought to he US by her parents as part of a long-term sleeper program. The author explores the depths of China's efforts to take on the US, as well as  the total cynicism and lack of morality that drive the big spy agencies.