In the Blood is the fifth book in Jack Carr’s “Terminal List” series. The novel starts with a female Mossad agent who has killed someone in the nation of Burkina Faso in Africa. Leaving in a jet, it is blown out of the sky. She was a friend of James Reese going back to a deployment of his in Iraq.

Thus begins his quest to find who killed Aliya Galin. The plots thickens as Nizar, the Syrian sniper who Reese is after was involved with downing the jet. Russian foreign intelligence and the FSB are involved. They want Reese dead before he can discover some piece of evidence involving the death of his father. Killing Galin was bait to lure Reese to his death.

The President of the United States lets Reese into a big secret. There is a massive computer underground at Lakcland Air Base at San Antonio. The computer (Alice) analyzes data from around the world constantly. It has achieved sentience.

Nizar has been captured in Burkina Faso and Reese travels to take him into custody. A helicopter carrying both is sabotaged and Nizar escapes.

Reese travels to Israel ((Our Greatest Ally™)) looking for clues. He meets with Aliya’s sister at a kibbutz in northern Israel which is attacked by a terrorist unit of Hezbollah employed the Russian Foreign Intelligence. Reese travels to northern Italy to meet with a former Mossad agent who may know where Nizad is hiding. There is another attack by Arabs employed by the Russians.

Nizar is in Montenegro where Reese plays a game of sniper cat and mouse with some help from Alice. The climax is well done and suspenseful.

As per usual in this series, plenty of gun battles, action, and intrigue. I thought this book fell into cliché with Israel good, Russia bad. Is Jack Carr working for the Kagans? The end of the novel does end on quite a new cliff hanger. I will see if I will bother to read the next novel down the road.