Review: Starts slow, feels like endless recycling of scenes
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 9, 2014
This is a dark and gritty thriller, but I felt like I had to force myself to read it.  Brant could be a compelling character, but it was difficult to get much of an understanding of what he was like between the flashbacks and his loneliness.  When his niece is kidnapped by a sex slavery ring, his attempts to get her back draw him into a morass of criminalityFrom the beginning, it felt as if I was reading the same scenes over and over again:  We'd have Brant being all dark, a Vietnam flashback, Kit in danger, Brant fighting with authority figures, Kit in danger, a Vietnam flashback, somebody throwing up, Brant shadowing someone, Kit in danger, someone vomiting, etc.  Too many of the characters felt like empty cliches.  This would have been okay if the plot kept us moving along, but it didn't.