Review: Chameleon steps it up a notch
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 22, 2011
There is no doubt that I was interested in reviewing J Jackson Bentley's latest offering (he had to change his pen name from Jack Daniels due to potential confusion, apparently), anyway Mr Bentley takes us way further with this book than he did in 48 Hours. Again set in London, wholly believable and well researched, the book races away from page one. I was expecting the usual infallible heroes (as with Child, Flynn, Hilton et al) saving the day and so I was in for a shock early on in the book and the shocks just kept on coming. There are so many twists that I genuinely forgot I was reviewing it and read it straight through without making a note. The book is easily as good as the competition and with the exception of perhaps Lee Child and a few other well established authors, it is better than most. I notice that it is now selling at 99 cents and my review copy cost many times that but I have to say it was value for money as my wife and friend have both read it.The premise is all too likely, an African lady wants to give evidence of African corruption at a Conference on Poverty but she must be stopped before she embarrasses a number of African nations and their Western contributors. The book then takes a surprising turn and leaves you gasping as it races through to a shock ending that I had to read three times before it sank in. At the end I felt as though I had been everywhere the book described from secret tunnels in London to small town America, the sign of a good book. Entertained me, my first five stars for a good while.