KINGDOM COME

By Jim Hougan

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Jack Dunphy is a CIA agent living in London. As his "cover" he runs a semi-legitimate, semi-shady company that sets up corporations and offshore banking setups for various people who would like to shelter / hide money from the British authorities. As a favor to his Station Chief, he "bugs" a professor at a London college. Outside his normal responsibilities, he has no idea why the professor is being bugged- he doesn't even listen to the tapes, just passes them on to the Station Chief.

The Professor is suddenly & viciously murdered in a ritual manner. Jack is recalled to Langley and put to work in the sub-basement of CIA headquarters, shuffling meaningless paperwork in a section filled with "failed agents". Things don't add up at all, and Jack starts doing some low key investigation to figure out why he is suddenly in such poor graces. More people start dying, and Jack is really on the run now....

The story REALLY begins about 2000 years ago, with a secret society formed right at the time of Christ's crucifixion. Somewhat along the lines of "the Illuminati" this secret society has penetrated to the center of world politics and world business. Jack COULD just go under deep cover and try to hide out for the rest of his life (he manages to get enough cash to live pretty well) but he decides to try to find out what is going on, and either stop it or at least expose it to the light of day.

I'm not going to get into specifics- don't want to spoil any surprises. But in this book we get some interesting (and plausible) explanations for a variety of phenomena: Crop Circles, UFOs, Holy Visions and more...

Most of the action takes place in Europe, but we also get to visit Kansas, Roswell, "Dreamland / Area 51 and several other places.

I have no complaints at all about this book. It has plenty of excitement, action, conspiracies, metaphysical and religious components, as well as the usual "spy craft". Several reviewers have likened Jim Houghan to Ian Flemming and Jack Dunphy to James Bond, but I personally find this story a lot more believable and less cartoonish than any of the 007 stories.