Review: Written like a television script
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 11, 2013
I really wanted to like this book and give it a higher score. But I couldn't. It just read too much like a storyline for one of those action television series where the good guys are always two steps ahead of the bad guys.So here is my list of its weaknesses:- Good guys not really challenged to the edge of their talents (just too easy for them to win - so no tension)- Villains two one-dimensional- No sense of location. By this I mean that the author was not able to immerse me in the place and culture of some of the more exotic locales.- No engaging characters. I just had no interest in them.- The lawyer in this is supposed to be top notch, but nothing I read actually convinced me of this.Strengths:- rapidly moving plot- every plot elements leads to another plot element (hence the plot actually goes somewhere pretty directly)- a brutality bordering on reality- reasonably well edittedAdmittedly, reading the review so far its not easy to see why I say I wanted to give it more. Thing was, yes it was a reasonable read and at no time did I want to give up on it. So, yes, worth a read. I just felt that with more emphasis upon the weaknesses I mention that this could have been so much better.I intend to read more of this author because I would like to see how he develops as a writer. I'm expecting some good stuff in future.