Review: High Entertainment Indeed
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 21, 2013
After reading the author's previous workTHE ORANGE MOON AFFAIR (A Thomas Gunn Thriller)I was not as surprised by the way this starts but as before it drags you right into the story with a near death experience in play, then after giving you just enough to make sure you can't leave, it backs up in time to give you the story as to how we got to this place.  My review cannot describe how effective this is to a reader, you have been taken prisoner and can't let go.Our all too mortal hero Thomas Gunn has once again inserted himself into a situation with worldwide implications and in yet another plot that would have Ian Fleming cheering, you are presented with this tale.  I should warn you that it will take about half the book to get to the point where you start the book and then you get "the rest of the story".  It is edge of the seat stuff and hard to put down.  Once again you should not start this late in the day or you might find putting it down for sleep a very difficult task.One of the most unique things about these tales are that the women in them tend to rise to the occasion and are not cardboard cutouts sitting around sobbing while our hero is doing all the work, to the contrary they are part of the story's appeal, they do indeed come out as strong, versatile and usually key to our hero's success.Even though Thomas Gunn is a much more complex character than James Bond but you cannot help but make mental comparisons of mental pictures of the scenes and settings after a lifetime of films about 007 but these novels of Thomas Gunn leave those comparisons far behind to this reader since Thomas is all too human in many ways and bordering on superman in others.Rather than drone on about the novel and it's qualities let me just say this is yet another page turner you do not want to miss and if you have any love for the genre this is a top reading choice.