Review: Everything I look for in a thriller, except...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 30, 2013
I'm suffering from sleep deprivation as I write this, because I couldn't put this book down last night until I finished it.  First, the good stuff:-  Well rounded, believeable characters.  Some of the characters don't live so very long, and even those are well fleshed out, not throwaway cardboard.  You care that they just got murdered; they're not just fodder.  And of course, you're rooting for the main characters (well, and against some of them!).-  Suspense!  And lots of it.  The end of each chapter was a cliffhanger for that character/scene and then he'd go off to another tense scene, etc.  He really ratcheted up the pacing and tension this way.  Well done and highly addictive.  The pacing was awesome; it just never, ever let up.  I can't think of a single spot where it dragged.  No way, no how.-  The technical detail was just right.  The air traffic control technical details were fascinating, yet not overdone.  He used jargon I wouldn't have understood on my own, but he very neatly and gracefully explained the jargon words. Well done.So this was a debut novel???OK, now the less than good.  The editing could have been better.  I will usually spot a typo or two in nearly any book, but such things were more extensive here than I like to see or needed to be.  One passage explaining the structure of the building was used in more than one place, if not verbatim, than nearly so.  Some transposed words, that sort of thing.  This is a bit of a peeve of mine, and it is testament to the strength of the book in all other aspects that I really, really enjoyed it despite the editing issues.