Review: Fails to Take Off
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 13, 2012
I thought that the story line and sub plots of Break Night were good. Unfortunately, that was really all that I enjoyed. Because the president of the US needs to appear to take a hard line against drugs to bolster his reelection campaign, DEA Special Agent Logan Watson and his new temporary partner, FBI Agent Madison Hayes are thrown together as an inter-agency effort to capture and prosecute South American drug kingpin Miguel Perez. I had the feeling that the author was unfamiliar with the FBI and the DEA and didn't have a strong handle on how those agencies are run and the components of an inter-agency collaboration. The dialog is stilted and the characters are only one dimensional. Neither the good guys or the bad guys are ever fully fleshed out and the sparks that are supposed to fire up the relationship between Watson and Hayes just kind of fizzle. There are a couple of nice plot twists toward the end, and a character is introduced who is actually very interesting, but all in all, the book just fails to take off.