Reviews

Pressure Drop by Peter Abrahams

tab2004's review against another edition

4.0

I really liked this book. It does follow something of a standard formula but I never would of thought of putting together sperm banks and secret nazi's. Somehow the author makes it work. I also really liked all main the characters in the story, especially Nina the frantic mother. She's strong but not over the top. Her determination to find her child and the lengths she will go to are the most interesting parts of the story. I enjoy a book where the female lead is not an idiot or weak and Nina is neither of those things.

flogigyahoo's review against another edition

4.0

This is the 2nd book by Peter Abrahams that I have read and I thoroughly enjoyed both of them. This is a classic mystery thriller involving Matthias, owner of Zombie Bay, a bar and motel located on one of the islands of the Caribbean. The Zombie Bay caters to divers and Matthias is being sued for millions for the negligent handling of the airtanks by his staff of one of his guest divers who apparently is in a permanent coma. Needless to say, Matthias will lose the Zombie Bay, his livelihood and his home. Then there is Nina Kitchener, a soon to be 40 year old single woman with no love life in sight living the good life in New York, running her publishing business, making a lot of money who suddenly feels her biological clock ticking. This is a wonderful thriller, the I-couldn't-stop-reading kind. Intelligent, well written, lots of fun and I really could not stop reading. Peter Abrahams has written quite a few of these and I aim to read them all. Good stuff.