Review: Pretty Good Story!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2013
The Assassin Trilogy composes three books by Haas: Silver Bear, Columbus and Dark Men.Read the book description to give you a sense of the stories. What I Will tell you is that as a screenwriter, Haas is great. As a novelist, he's almost there. Even though his descriptions of events and his dialogue are top notch I am a bit put off by his style.Haas' writing style is straight from a Mickey Spillane novel, ie. 1950s style. There is a place for terse dialogue in a story but from start to finish - through dialogue, descriptions and commentary it becomes tiring - no - exhausting! Haas needs to soften things up in places so that the reader can take a breath and recover.Don't get me wrong. The story was terrific. Just prepare to be worn to the bone and beat down at the end.Buy this trilogy!