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Spykiller (2012)

by Matthew Dunn(Favorite Author)

3.42 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

8830430811 (ISBN13: 9788830430815)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Longanesi

series

Spycatcher

review 1: The author, Matthew Dunn, is a former MI6 field officer of great experience. He has, according to his biography, mastered the art of organizing secret missions - about 70 in total, all of them successful - but I don't think he's entirely mastered the art of writing. Characters don't emerge; instead, we're told what they are like ("I know why you have an absolute sense of right and wrong," one character tells another. "I know where all that unflinching sense of morality started.") Also, the book could be better edited. At one point we read, "The room before him was large and totally empty... A solitary man stood on the far side..." If a room is occupied, it can't also be empty.
review 2: I only managed to finish this book because it was the first of the new year... more and I didn't want to start a bad precedent. This was the most boring "thriller" I have ever read. It gets 2 stars and not one because the mechanics were tolerable (grammar, plot, etc), but the characters never developed. All dialogue was formulaic and So Melodramatic it was painful...and Is it a spoiler to say there are no plot twists?? Totally pointless read. less

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