My rating for this book kept going between 2-4. I liked many aspects of it but also found several implausible situations that took away from the enjoyment.I found the main character, Travis, dull and did not find any interest to his backstory of being a mafia child raised to do bad but is basica...
I read Ghost Country a few hers ago, and after finding out this was the first of the series, I went out and bought it. I regret it took me so long to get to this book, it was absolutely incredible. Lee's writing is fast-paced and quick to read. The book reads like a suspense/thriller movie and th...
I was about 5 chapters into this one when I realized there was a #1! I'm so glad I stopped it and went and read #1--a lot of things were much clearer. Most of it is very, very good and fast moving. On the other hand, there are large sections of repetitive, unpleasant descriptions of mass death a...
The third novel in Patrick Lee's Breach trilogy moves at breakneck speed, sparing not a jot of character development, and employing some heavy science fiction to wrap up the plot trajectory of the previous two novels. It moves so quickly that some characters are barely afterthoughts (Bethany's ro...
He exercised for thirty minutes. He showered, dressed in khakis and a gray cotton tennis shirt, and went to his den. Beyond the windows Central Park lay in amber light and long, early shadows, thirty stories below.He switched on the computer. While the operating system loaded, he left the room an...
Travelers stopped often and used the restrooms, drank a couple of beers, and usually toted along a six-pack or two for the road. David finished the second of his tap beers, and Tomas drained his ice-cold bottle of Pepsi Cola. He held true on his July 5th promise not to drink again. The bartender ...
Rachel couldn’t actually see the magazine—the man had it down behind the countertop, out of view—but she could more or less see the pictures in his head. There were lots of tattoos in the images. There were metal rings and spikes stuck through skin. Now and again the man would turn his attention ...
He had seventy minutes to get there, which gave him forty minutes to do what he needed to do in town. He walked into the lot of a used car dealership and found the cheapest thing that looked capable of surviving the short trip: a 1991 Ford Ranger, its bed full of rust holes big enough that he cou...