Genre: Thriller
Description:
Harry Miller, ex-special forces, is hunted
down in Slovenia by powerful forces working outside the law to bring to heel
other powerful forces working outside the law. Thereafter we whizz through
London and immediately head for Thailand, where most of the action takes place;
mainly in Bangkok.
One fears such shadowy forces may well exist,
world-wide. And not just in fiction. Fortunately they are not usually bothered
with little fish. However, in our world of uber-big business and mega-smuggling
operations, the scenario is oh-so believable. Little fish do sometimes get
sucked into the orbit of these behemoths. And not all escape alive.
Author:
Joe Halliday has a degree from Exeter
University in Britain and a Masters in Creative Writing from the same
institution. Thereafter he spent a couple of years in Marketing, before
becoming a freelance writer.
He has ghost-written a number of acclaimed
works of fiction. He also writes non-fiction. And is now writing under his own
name.
He reads obsessively in a wide range of
genres.
He splits his time between the UK and Spain.
Appraisal:
What are soldiers good for when they’ve been
chewed up in a conflict zone and retired with PTSD? They become assassins, or
criminals, or work in security. Or perhaps all three. And although they may swear
off the killing, some of them really miss it. After all, if you’ve sacrificed everything
you ever loved for the armed forces, what else is going to get your pulse
racing?
There is not a lot of humour in this book.
But there is a LOT of action, beautifully put on the page, which will have you
turning said pages over like a mad thing. There is never a dull moment. This
deserves to be a movie. Or a mini-series.
The action flits and sips. It begins, for
instance with ‘Them’ coming for a journalist (not in a good way). The reason
for this is withheld for so long that I had quite forgotten about her when that
piece of the plot was slotted (neatly) into place. This is not the only change
of tack. You need to go with the flow but do try to remember what happened when
the story goes off piste – it will become important. To paraphrase Chekhov,
all of the guns over various mantlepieces get fired at some point.
There are two more books (as you can see
above this is the first in a trilogy) all of which are now available for your
nail-biting pleasure.
Buy now
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Format/Typo
Issues:
No significant issues.
Rating: ****
Four Stars
Reviewed
by: Judi Moore
Approximate word count: 95-100,000 words
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