Review: Fast-Paced Action Thriller
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 7, 2013
A British Intelligence agent has gone rogue, murdered two CIA agents, and John Purkiss, a contract agent, is assigned to track down the rogue, Pope. When a story starts with this premise, you can be confident it will include chases, close calls, action, and violence from minor to fatal. This one will not disappoint expectations. As the chase proceeds, the author introduces a cast of characters who divide roughly into good guys, bad guys, good guys gone bad, and Pope, a good guy gone bad for reasons at first mysterious but later understandable. They do not mitigate his guilt, but make him sympathetic. The story unfolds from multiple points of view, which alternate at a quickening pace as it proceeds, increasing the sense of urgency. The writing is intelligent, tight, and well-edited. Recommended to fans of suspense fiction with plenty of action.