Genre: Mystery/Thriller

Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada, Published February 9th 2021

Format: Paperback

Pages: 432

Rating: 4/5 stars

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award winner Alex Berenson comes a supercharged thriller about marriage and the dangerous secrets spouses keep.

Rebecca and Brian Unsworth appear to have it all. A nice house in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Two well-behaved, healthy teenage children. Important government jobs—Rebecca working in counterterrorism for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Brian serving as a coder for the National Security Agency. Their lives stand to improve even more as Brian, in his off-hours, has just developed and sold a highly profitable app.

However, the Unsworths’ marriage isn’t as perfect as it seems. After two decades together, they’ve drifted apart, talking little and having sex even less. Seeking to revive their strained relationship, they decide for their twentieth wedding anniversary to take their two kids, Kira and Tony, on a European getaway.

They have a blast…until one night in Barcelona when Kira doesn’t come home from a dance club. She’s gone. Abducted. Over the course of a single weekend, the Unsworths will do everything possible to find her—as Kira herself discovers just how far she’ll go to break free of the trap that’s been set for her. And even as Rebecca and Brian come together for Kira, they realize their marriage is more tenuous than they realized.

The Power Couple is both a fast-paced, globe-trotting espionage novel full of surprising twists and a nuanced look at modern marriage—the challenges of balancing career, parenthood, sex, and love. 

My Review:

Thank you Simon and Shuster Canada for the copy of this book.
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I really enjoyed the action in this book and the way the story was told. The book starts off with the daughter of Brian and Rebecca, Kira, getting kidnapped while the family vacations in Spain. Through alternating perspectives, we learn about Kira’s ordeal, as well as the background into Brian and Rebecca and their history together.
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I really liked the alternating perspectives and that we were reading about what was happening in the present while simultaneously reading about Rebecca and Brian’s experiences while married. Rebecca is an agent with the CIA and Brian does odd programming jobs, eventually landing a job with Home Security (I think that was it?).
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The book was a little predictable but I was still engrossed in finding out what was going to happen. I really liked Kira as a character. She showed strength and resiliency through her terrible experience.
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CW: sexual content, kidnapping, murder, death of a loved one.