Review: great British thriller
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 25, 2013
Another great read from the always reliable Simon Kernick. He does have a regular cast of characters and a couple of them appear in this one, Tina Boyd and Mike Bolt. Bit of a warning, it is probably better to have read the previous book, The Siege, before jumping into this one.As usual this is a page turner (mainly set in one particular day) with a number of threads that come together in a tale that sometimes jumps from third person perspective to first. It's hard to put down, as most of the author's works are, and Tina Boyd is one again a very engaging lead who is a bit of a maverick bullet and trouble magnet. As the good guys chase down a terrorist ultimatum, they don't realise just how much they are playing into the hands of someone with a deeper agenda.Quite well set up for a further installment to come I suspect. Great stuff as always.  Simon Kernick is one of the UK's better thriller writers and it is well worth seeking him out.