Review: Not for me. But maybe for you?
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 10, 2013
"Rex Randall and the Jericho Secret," features a massive cast of characters none of whom are especially fleshed out. With so much going on and so many people doing it I'd have to think it difficult for the most experienced authors to keep everything straight. Carter manages to keep his story lines from getting muddled. There is a "just the facts, ma'am" sense for a majority of the novel that makes for neat lines but not so much for a compelling, can't-put-downable read. In addition to the direct information dumps, some of Carter's narrative is awkwardly written.At the end of the day, "Rex Randall and the Jericho Secret" is a very classically constructed spy novel. Voyeuristic in a sense. Carter tells us in the novel that this is a lifestyle men want but to which they can only aspire and isn't that the magic of fiction? For a person to read a story and place themselves in the narrative?  I am rating this one three stars because I think its a novel that has a market and I'm simply not that market. If you like spy fiction, give this one a shot.