Review: Poorly Written and Poorly Plotted Political Thriller
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 29, 2013
There are tunnels beneath the White House, and DCPD officer Jack Mitchell is convinced that they lead straight into a conspiracy to assassinate the new president. Can he find support for this theory in order to stop the plan in time?Take one tired conspiracy theory of a hereditary group that has controlled the politics of the country for centuries and plans presidential assassinations, a DC cop with parental issues and unprofessional conduct, and an author who writes in third person present tense and you've got a story that reads like a B-list comic book complete with lots of sound affects written in. I haven't seen so many Crash! Blam! Booms! since the old Batman TV shows.There is virtually no character development, no intricate plotting, or explanations of the motivation of any of the conspirators. It's a bare-bones story with no finesse and characters who are mostly interchangeable since none of them except the main character are given more than a name and a short physical description and job title. All we are told is that Jack has discovered an assassination plot based on sparse evidence supposedly because of some new landmark legislative initiative the president will be presenting to Congress. We never find out exactly what this initiative entails nor why it is so threatening to the secret society to make them feel like they must take immediate action.The assassination plot is more like an excuse for having a big action scene with lots of bullets flying and explosions blasting. It's not the subtle plan that you would expect a secret society with lots of powerful high rollers to have come up with. But then how secret can the society be when all of their members wear rings and cuff links with the secret symbol on them for anyone to see?The book was difficult to get through because of the poor writing style and the lack of meat and substance to the plot. This is a very amateurishly written book. Not recommended.