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usbsticky's review
3.0
Spoilers ahead.
The writing is easy to read and get into. But it was very slow going. Sometimes a book grips me and brings me along, like I'm on a raft barreling down a river. This one feels more like hard paddling. It was just that the action took a long time to develop, or rather they developed at a snail's pace. Yes, the protagonists found clues that led them to the next step and people shot at them, but the prose was neither enthralling nor exciting. This book took me a relatively long time to finish, and during the reading I found numerous reasons to check the news, do the dishes, fold my clothes or do one or another of many things I avoid when I'm in the middle of a good book. So the least I can say about this book is that I did a lot of chores around the house. If you find yourself lacking in motivation to do chores, try this book.
Short summary: Harry and Rik are ex MI6 who now use their skills to find people of all kinds, people who don't want to be found. Their boss Jennings, who seem to be involved with the government or is ex-government, send them to find a trio of people, one after another.
Starting off with a Libyan expat who ran away with some of his country's money; an accountant who absconding with money and a Jewish professor. Things start to look weird when both the Libyan and accountant were mysteriously shot to death after they were found.
As they dig deeper on their 3rd subject, they discover he might not be who Jennings said he was. It starts to become a good spy (or mystery) protocol book where they follow clues that lead to more clues. But as I said before, it was just slow going and written in a way that was as unexciting as possible.
And for some reason, I never got vested into the main protagonist Harry. He lacked personality or the author lacked the ability to make him interesting. I finished the book without any conscious desire to continue the series. All of this together is why I gave the book 3 stars.
The writing is easy to read and get into. But it was very slow going. Sometimes a book grips me and brings me along, like I'm on a raft barreling down a river. This one feels more like hard paddling. It was just that the action took a long time to develop, or rather they developed at a snail's pace. Yes, the protagonists found clues that led them to the next step and people shot at them, but the prose was neither enthralling nor exciting. This book took me a relatively long time to finish, and during the reading I found numerous reasons to check the news, do the dishes, fold my clothes or do one or another of many things I avoid when I'm in the middle of a good book. So the least I can say about this book is that I did a lot of chores around the house. If you find yourself lacking in motivation to do chores, try this book.
Short summary: Harry and Rik are ex MI6 who now use their skills to find people of all kinds, people who don't want to be found. Their boss Jennings, who seem to be involved with the government or is ex-government, send them to find a trio of people, one after another.
Starting off with a Libyan expat who ran away with some of his country's money; an accountant who absconding with money and a Jewish professor. Things start to look weird when both the Libyan and accountant were mysteriously shot to death after they were found.
As they dig deeper on their 3rd subject, they discover he might not be who Jennings said he was. It starts to become a good spy (or mystery) protocol book where they follow clues that lead to more clues. But as I said before, it was just slow going and written in a way that was as unexciting as possible.
And for some reason, I never got vested into the main protagonist Harry. He lacked personality or the author lacked the ability to make him interesting. I finished the book without any conscious desire to continue the series. All of this together is why I gave the book 3 stars.
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