DONALD HAMILTON – The Infiltrators. Matt Helm #21. Gold Medal; paperback original; 1st printing, June 1984.

   Matt Helm helps rehabilitate a lady attorney just released from prison and in the process discovers that not only is the lady’s story true, but that there are some very fancy worms in the government’s woodwork.

   I liked the first half (the reclamation project) better than the second (the work Helm gets paid for). Too much padding, and too much coincidence (although you don’t realize the latter until some time later).

— Reprinted from Mystery.File.3, February 1988.