Review: Brutality as cop versus assassin
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 12, 2012
Brutal - the word really sums up a lot of this book. Both cop and assassin have walked through Hell to get where they are, but whereas the cop has turned his experiences into the fuel to fire his fight for justice, the assassin has just become the most dangerous of his type. Other reviewers call this novel dark and I do not disagree - it IS very dark at times.I feel the author did his research in discussing the drug cartels and crime scene in Mexico. It felt real. It also achieved the sense of being slightly foreign in locale without alienating the reader from the familiar.Stylistically Blake is quite tight. I felt there were no wasted words and no gratuitous scenes. The entire book just marched on at a relentless, logical pace. I appreciate all this in an author. The plot was pretty straight forward and Blake is proof that a novel does not need to be overly complex to be good.All told, a big thumbs up from me.