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Plot Summary of Iron Orchid
"Former Chief of Police in Florida, Holly Barker is at the Farm going through her CIA training when she is pulled out of class and put on special assignment with others from her group. Teddy Fay, and ex-CIA technical wizard is not dead as was thought at the end of “Capital Crimes” and has resurfaced. Teddy has decided to go after targets in New York City that the authorities cannot. He still has a contact inside the CIA who is covering for him and with his technical wizardry no one even figures out it is him at first.

Holly and the others on her team are sent to New York to work with Lance Armstrong and stop Teddy. They just miss him when they determine that he has sat next to Holly at the Met Opera, and gone undetected as he is now a master of disguise. They narrowly miss him at the Opera Music Store. He gets away from them Sax 5th Ave by posing as Santa after shooting someone who is out to hurt Holly while Skating in Central Park.

One thing that makes it tough to catch Teddy is that he is killing people that the agency would love to have kicked out of the US but with the diplomatic immunity are not able to. So they all struggle with the fact that he is doing what they only wish they could. The team is on a race to stop Teddy from killing a Saudi Prince at the United Nations Plaza.
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Tanya, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of Iron Orchid
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Plot

Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 30%




Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
Time/era of story: - present (2000-2010)
Spying/Terrorism Thriller Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets: - preventing/finding assassin
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - spy
Age: - 40's-50's
How much violence does he/she use? - just the right amount
Ethnicity/Race - White/American
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - very athletic

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - unemployed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - an above average amount
Motive of antagonist - power
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - healthy but a geeky weakling

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Mid-Atlantic states

Style
Part of a series? Yes
Person - rotating 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - very gorey descriptions deaths/dead bodies
How many deaths? - 3-4
Unusual form of death? Yes
Amount of dialog - significantly more descript than dialog
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