Review: Highly Recommended
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 1, 2010
No Good Deed is an excellent novel.  I remember there was a TV reenactment of what was done to prisoners who had been incarcerated as Enemy Combatants.  The TV description was given by a man who was wrongly accused and imprisoned--although he was in another country.  When I saw it I burst into tears--with the horrible thought that torture was being done in the name of the people of the USA.In Mary McDonald's novel this happens to the character, Mark.  In many instances he is able to save people because he has knowledge of what will happen if he doesn't intervene.  He saves many lives.  When he gets prior knowledge of the 9/11 attack and tries to give a warning, it puts him under suspicion.  He is imprisoned.  Tortured.  But the most important part of the novel to me was the psychological trauma he went through in reaction to the torture.  Then his effort to put his shattered life and relationships back together.The ending is pure poetic justice.  I won't give it away, but it will warm your heart.