Taylor Stevens

Nine years after escaping the violence in Cameroon, Vanessa Michael Munroe, the daughter of American missionaries, agrees to help Houston oilman Richard Burbank find his adopted daughter, who vanished four years ago while visiting west central Africa.

A Thriller

The Informationist

Governments pay her. Criminals fear her. Nobody sees her coming. Vanessa “Michael” Munroe deals in information—expensive information—working for corporations, heads of state, private clients, and anyone else who can pay for her unique brand of expertise. Born to missionary parents in lawless central Africa, Munroe took up with an infamous gunrunner and his mercenary crew when she was just fourteen. As his protégé, she earned the respect of the jungle's most dangerous men, cultivating her own reputation for years until something sent her running. After almost a decade building a new life and lucrative career from her home base in Dallas, she's never looked back. Until now. A Texas oil billionaire has hired her to find his daughter who vanished in Africa four years ago. It’s not her usual line of work, but she can’t resist the challenge. Pulled deep into the mystery of the missing girl, Munroe finds herself back in the lands of her childhood, betrayed, cut off from civilization, and left for dead. If she has any hope of escaping the jungle and the demons that drive her, she must come face-to-face with the past that she’s tried for so long to forget. The first book in the Vanessa Michael Munroe series, gripping, ingenious, and impeccably paced, The Informationist marks the arrival or a thrilling new talent. “Stevens’s blazingly brilliant debut introduces a great new action heroine, Vanessa Michael Munroe, who doesn’t have to kick over a hornet’s nest to get attention, though her feral, take-no-prisoners attitude reflects the fire of Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander….Thriller fans will eagerly await the sequel to this high-octane page-turner.” —Publishers Weekly, starred, boxed review

A Vanessa Michael Munroe Novel

Sonia Flores

I guess everyone has a type of book. This is exactly MY type, non-stopping action, mistery, betrayal and the thought of always having to guess the worst about every situation. I never got bored, I couldn't stop reading and most important thing, I always followed the story like I was watching it happen in front of me. Even though it was kinda surreal, I loved it. Vanessa Munroe is a kick-ass and I like kick-ass women. Besides, all the location stuff was so on point, there's nothing I can tell against this book. Even the last part, when she shows for the first time the fact that she is HUMAN.
Every time I needed to put the book down, I was like NO I JUST CAN'T.

It's been a long time since I rated a book this high, and the reason I say everyone has a type of book is that I started reading this book looking for some action and it was exactly what I got. I'm not even gonna lie, I bought the book because I found it very cheap and decided to give it an opportunity, when I opened, I didn't thought I was gonna like it, but it gave me what I have been looking for.

The Informationist A Thriller

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