This review is more about the horribly distracting narration than the novel itself. Story is ok, spy thriller - I am not finished but will get there - The narration is TERRIBLE!!!! Very stilted word formation, poor inflection - Narrator actually sounded happy when in the next sentence it was obvi...
After a minute of listening to it wax and wane in the distance, Decker said, “They’re searching for us.” The sound of the helicopter faded, to the point where it was almost inaudible, but then gradually it grew louder. And louder. Until suddenly it was within a few hundred feet of them, sending g...
Behind the house, an old pickup truck had been driven into a drainage ditch next to an outhouse and a solitary apple tree. A cow stood in the wooden bed of the pickup, unable to lie down because of the way she’d been tied to the cab. Goats had wandered through a hole in the stick-fence enclosure ...
Thirty-three-year-old Rad Saveljic spoke loudly into his cell phone. “Did you hear back from Sunoco?” asked his fiancée. “Have I told you about the monkeys?” asked Rad, ignoring her question. “Ah, yeah. You told me about the monkeys.” “Did I tell you they bite? One started following me last night...
He’d pulled the blind back just a bit and was peering out to the street. Cox, who was sitting on his desk, said, “So this source I was running—” “Start with what you were doing in Ganja in the first place. Why are you…” Mark turned from the window and gestured around the room. “…here? I assume it...