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Saving Faith
768 pages
A breathless, paranoid sprint through the dark corridors of Washington power and the desperate fight to survive its secrets.
What it feels like
This is a quintessential cat-and-mouse thriller that wraps the reader in a thick blanket of political paranoia. From the very first page, the atmosphere is charged with a relentless, ticking-clock urgency, plunging you into a shadowy world where no one can be trusted and every shadow hides a lethal threat. The prose is lean and cinematic, engineered purely for momentum, pulling you through narrow escapes and high-stakes confrontations with breathless speed. It feels like watching a blockbuster action film, complete with unlikely alliances forged in the crucible of survival and the satisfying dismantling of corrupt power structures. It is the perfect escape for anyone who loves a gritty, propulsive chase where the odds are impossible and the tension never breaks.
- Mood
- paranoid
- tense
- shadowy
- high-stakes
- Tone
- urgent
- cynical
- suspenseful
- gritty
- Pace
- propulsive
- Themes
- institutional corruption · survival against the odds · unlikely alliances · the cost of power · trust and betrayal
- The writing
- Direct, cinematic, and sharply focused on momentum, the sentences are built to keep the pages turning.
- The arc
- The journey moves from suffocating paranoia and desperate flight to a hard-won, adrenaline-fueled reclamation of agency.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave high-stakes political conspiracies and breathless cat-and-mouse chases.
Content notes
- gun violence
- murder
- assassination attempts
- political corruption
About the book
In a secluded house not far from Washington, D.C., the FBI is interviewing one of the most important witnesses it has ever had: a young woman named Faith Lockhart. For Faith has done too much, knows too much, and will tell too much.
Feared by some of the most powerful men in the world, Faith has been targeted to die. But when a private investigator walks into the middle of the assassination attempt, the shooting suddenly goes wrong, and an FBI agent is killed. Now Faith Lockhart must flee for her life – with her story, her deadly secret, and an unknown man she’s forced to trust...
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