Review: Fantastic but Beware Red Mountain
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 21, 2013
This novel was so well done that I read it twice (so far) and had confidence in the author, thus ordered "Red Mountain." What a shock! It was as if someone else had written "Red," and only skimmed the previous book. First, it begins with the unlikeable Mickey and DiPino does not appear until chapter 16. Wherever their history or back story appears, it often is inaccurate or has no relation to what was written in "Killer."I highly recommend "Killer in a Box," but don't make the mistake I made and waste time with "Red Mountain." The difference is so great that it seems as if someone appropriated the author's name and his characters and then did a sloppy job. With the talent Thayer showed in his first novel, I cannot understand how he could allow "Red Mountain" to be visited on trusting readers.