Review: Unbeatably tense and pacy thriller
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 29, 2011
I'll start with the good news for readers wondering about whether the sequel to the bestselling Pharos Objective is as good as the first in the series; it's even better.Next is a warning: if you like to read your thrillers two or three chapters at a time and leave space for the plot to whirl about in your head - I'd get something dull and plodding instead.The Mongol Objective is unputdownable. More so than the first, because by now readers are familiar with most of the characters who race from Antarctica, to Turkey, through Mongolia, to China and then to a crazy climax in Egypt - and are urging them on to victory against an increasing array of dark, shadowy powers whose schemes and machinations make the bad guys in the first book look like rank amateurs.Written with the well-paced genius of trickery, oniony plotting (it zooms outwards every now and then and you realise what world-dominating plots are really at play), and brilliantly conceived traps and puzzles; the Mongol Objective is replete with new and cunning methods of killing the henchmen, putting the main characters in dire peril and generally keeping you hooked until the very end, where the final part of the Trilogy, the Cydonia Objective is prefaced with a huge cliffhanger, several `aaaah, so that's why they did that...' moments and a sneak into the past of the Crowe family.As ever - Caleb Crowe is up against it, this time racing to rescue his son, abducted by a former colleague, the devious Xavier Montross. We also meet a vengeful old lover he thought long dead, several handfuls of cronies, an FBI Agent who is far more than she lets on, and a mysterious group of protectors, oh and some really shadowy characters pulling the strings from very far away and very far up the Power Chain. Aided by his sister Phoebe, their new Morpheus initiate Orlando, and from afar, his son Alexander - Caleb must use all his wits, courage and psychic power to outwit the raiders of the Great Khan's Tomb.Hurry up with Book Three Mr S!!