Review: Decent writing, but bad plotting.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 30, 2012
David DeLee, <strong>Officer Down</strong> (Dark Road Publishing, 2011)Meant to be one of those thrillers where you start off with the scene, and then cut in various flashbacks to see how everything was set up, etc., with the Big Reveal coming right at the end to show how everything fits together. At least, I think that's what it's meant to be. If so, it doesn't work; you'll have it figured out within the first couple of pages. DeLee drops clues that are a little too obvious to where he's going. Which is okay when he does it with the red herring bit, but not when he does it with the Big Reveal. I think running this one through a mystery writer's workshop or something along those lines might have been a good idea; DeLee isn't a bad writer, but the plotting could use some work here. **