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Arrow Books Ltd (2007), Edition: New Ed, Mass Market Paperback, 384 pages
Description
Three people. Three stories. And a desperate race for survival in a country in the midst of war.
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LibraryThing member GirlFromIpanema
Picked this up spontaneously at the bookshop, because the first few pages made me wanting to read more about the story. Of course this is an action thriller, so I expect lots of things going "boom" down the road, but the way the author introduces the characters and gets the story going intrigued
Will be back with the full review, when I am done with the book.
Update: Seems like a lot of action stories share a problem: Once the actions starts, the character development gets left behind. Here we have Nick, ex-SAS, who comes home from his month-long stint on an oil platform in Algeria only to find that his daughter Sarah (working on a doctorate in Physics) has gone missing. We also meed Jed, an SAS operative, long-time friend and sometimes lover of Sarah. The relationship Nick - Sarah is nicely developed, also the somewhat bumpy relationship between Nick and Jed. But all this is freezed the moment the real action starts, and never really gets picked up again. Not that I mind the action, but being a "girl", I also like to hear more about what's going on in people's brains ;-). I know it can be done, I've seen it in Baldacci's "Last Man Standing" for example (although that one has other problems).
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me.Will be back with the full review, when I am done with the book.
Update: Seems like a lot of action stories share a problem: Once the actions starts, the character development gets left behind. Here we have Nick, ex-SAS, who comes home from his month-long stint on an oil platform in Algeria only to find that his daughter Sarah (working on a doctorate in Physics) has gone missing. We also meed Jed, an SAS operative, long-time friend and sometimes lover of Sarah. The relationship Nick - Sarah is nicely developed, also the somewhat bumpy relationship between Nick and Jed. But all this is freezed the moment the real action starts, and never really gets picked up again. Not that I mind the action, but being a "girl", I also like to hear more about what's going on in people's brains ;-). I know it can be done, I've seen it in Baldacci's "Last Man Standing" for example (although that one has other problems).
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384 p.; 9.2 inches
ISBN
0099492148 / 9780099492146