Review: The Search for Bryant Hunter
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 19, 2013
After reading this book, I felt I had to reread the opening pages. They were too good, describing an air fight between two young indomitable pilots from World War 2, one German one English. Their first skirmishes end with the Englishman in his cockpit gesturing a sign of thumbs up in a friendly praise of the enemy's virtuosity in combat, something that was perhaps usual in the chivalric Middle Ages, not in modern times.The final four pages of the book are also in a superior class, detailing the breaking off into the sea of an immense glacier from the point of view, as it were, of a solitary seagull.The SF powers in the book are not from the outer space, but from the unknown depths of our oceans, for once. They are neither evil nor good, tending to be good but making mistakes in their actions. This gives the book an unexpected twist.I especially liked the opinion expressed by the good guy: "Certainly there were people that he could say were eminently trustworthy, but the bulk of the human race?"George Millior