Review: Enjoyed the serialization
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 6, 2013
"The Betrayer" by Daniel Judson really sold me on the idea of the serialized novel.  I thought of Dickens in particular who serialized his books and it seems to work very well, especially when a book is as filled with suspense as this one.  Each episode ends with a cliffhanger through the sixth and ends with the seventh.  They are delivered to the Kindle automatically every two weeks, but as soon as one episode was delivered, I read it pretty quickly.  This is a hard book to put down.The story involves the Coyle family of New York whose father was an FBI agent who was brutally murdered and labeled as a traitor.  The person most likely to have killed him was his oldest and closest friend who had ties to the Russian mob, but you can't trust that.  Agent John Coyle's youngest son, Jeremy, takes it into his own hands to hunt down the person who killed his father and in doing so starts the ball rolling for hitmen and criminals to come out of the woodwork to stop him from discovering that information.  By the end of the book, Jeremy's siblings and his brother's girlfriend have also joined in and the action and intrigue never stop.  It's very hard to determine who to trust for the Coyle family members who want to avenge their father's death.This is an exciting novel of suspense that has many twists and turns.  It was fun reading it in episodes, and looking forward to the next installment made it something to really look forward to.Recommended for suspense readers.