Saturday, March 14, 2015

Novel: Shall We Tell the President by Jeffrey Archer

Featuring FBI agents, this novel is really great for someone who loves adventure and investigation. Mark Andrews and other FBI agents had just figured out an assassination attempt on the first female president of the United States. They were told by a man who had been beaten in a cafe he had worked at. He had accidentally heard their plans and immediately told the FBI as he was feeling too afraid. Unfortunately, the man was killed on the hospital bed itself while the FBI agents were not around. Thus, they really had to work out by themselves to prevent the assassination from happening. They planned not to interrupt the president's schedule to make sure that the men behind all those would not know about them. However, accidents happened that caused only Mark Andrews to stay alive, which he was also pretended to die in order to keep his existence as a secret. Thus, he worked it out with the FBI leader that they finally found out the assassinate. They were flabbergasted to know that it was one of the politicians that actually planned it. At last, they managed to arrest them just before they managed to complete their plan.



I am fascinated about the FBI's decision not to tell the president about the assassination trial. Maybe most of us will not do the same thing, exposing the president to death and to capture the criminal in action. Although the plan seemed to be dangerous, but somehow they managed to solve the plan and eventually saved her from being killed. This taught me on how to have a prodigious strategy in order to defeat the criminals. Although I do not want to be a policemen, but at least I could know how they arrange the plans to save the country.

Besides, the hospitalized man also shown a great bravery to tell the police and the FBI to prevent the assassination of his own respected president. Although he had been beaten strenuously, he never afraid to tell the truth although he knew that maybe the FBI would not be 100% trust on him. He was just an ordinary cafe worker who had accidentally heard about it. He had also shown his patriotism and respect towards the president although she was just a woman. Not everyone are willing to sacrifice their own soul just to save their leader, but the man proved it.

However, I am still disagree with Mark's actions to befriend with the woman who is one of the suspect that they had been investigating. He should follow the advices given by his president to stay away from the girl because she might be involved in the crime. Nevertheless, he secretly kept his relationship and tried to meet her everyday as they were in love. Lucky for him that her father was not the one who was caught that red-letter day.


Based on the pros and cons of this novel, I generally recommend this novel for the youth that love action stories very much. Maybe it is not suitable and will not be read by the people who always interested in love stories only.

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