Review: A "Hardy Boys" novella at best
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 31, 2014
Frankly, I'm surprised at how many positive reviews this book got. The book is definitely High School, if not 7th or 8th grade reading comprehension level, at best.I will admit that I only picked up this book because I could not stay interested  in the author's other book "Wanted". I put that book down twice then started skim reading it just to see if I could finish it. I'm still trying.To begin with, the protagonist, Leopold Blake, is simply unrealistic in my view. He comes across as an amateur sleuth, working along side of law enforcement to solve the crime at hand. As is it structured by the author, the police are relatively incompetent, or should I say, less competent than Blake at conducting the investigation.This is what I meant by saying "Hardy Boys", because if you ever read any of those books (I read a bunch in grade school), you got the distinct impression that they were the only ones who knew how to solve the dilemma. They were, in fact, the "heroes" outsmarting not only the so called good guys in the investigation, but in the end, capturing the bad guys as well.Sorry, I digress. I read a lot of this genre, to wit by authors such as Donnelly, Lehane, Pratt, Dixon, and  Grisham just to name a few. So far, this author's material simply doesn't measure up to any of them.I simply cannot recommend this read.