Fatal Code By Natalie Walters

 

Fatal Code, by Natalie Walters, is the second installment in The Snap Agency series. This book was hard for me to get connected to, it didn't really capture my attention like some of the others this author has written. Maybe it was just the timing, but I had a hard time getting excited to open it each time I picked it up. It seemed to drag a little in several parts. The way Kekoa uses the phrase, "brah" all the time was annoying. I get that it's part of his Hawaiian culture, but it was overkill. Some pages I just glossed over because they weren't moving the story forward. I never found myself rooting for Elinor as the main character, I just didn't really care what happened to her. It was a clean read though, and for that I'm happy. 

From the back cover:

In 1964, a group of scientists called the Los Alamos Five came close to finishing a nuclear energy project for the United States government when there were abruptly disbanded. ow the granddaughter of one of those scientists, aerospace engineer Elinor Mitchell, discovers that she has highly sensitive information on the project in her possession - and a target on her back. 

SNAP agent and former Navy cryptologist Kekoa Young is tasked with monitoring Elinor. This is both convenient since she's his neighbor in Washington, DC, and decidedly inconvenient because...well, he kind of likes her. 

As Elinor follows the clues that her grandfather left behind to a top-secret nuclear project, Kekoa has no choice but to step in. And with danger closing in on all sides, Elinor will have to trust the man who has been spying on her to ensure her discoveries stay out of enemy hands - and she stays alive. 

This book provided for review by Revell.