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Banquo's Ghosts (2009)

by Rich Lowry(Favorite Author)

3.52 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1593155085 (ISBN13: 9781593155087)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Vanguard Press

review 1: Rich Lowry is editor of National Review. This novel is a standard thriller. Terrorists are on the loose and they must be stopped. But in bit of fantasy wishing, the guy who can stop them is a bleeding heart liberal journalist who discovers that all the evil conservatives have been right!!! There really are terrorists who want to kill Americans!. So bleeding heart gets some training and sent on a secret mission and thanks to him being such an anti-american blowhard he's allowed into secret Iranian locations. Decent book. Nothing spectacular or new to the genre. Definitely written with a conservative / hawk perspective and can get a bit preachy once in a while. But if you're reading anti-terrorist thrillers you're most likely not a member of the ... moreACLU.
review 2: ‘Now the only truth: you never know.’A rogue special operation is initiated by CIA spymaster Stewart Banquo after he learns that an Iranian scientist is in the process of developing nuclear weapons on Iranian soil. Peter Johnson, a dissolute liberal news journalist is recruited as a most unlikely hero where he poses as a sympathetic reporter writing a piece about Iran’s nuclear facilities. His mission is to kill the scientist.Unfortunately, the best laid plans (and even those that are not) frequently fail. The consequences are that Johnson is captured and tortured by the Iranians. With the assistance of the CIA operatives who trained him initially, Johnson escapes from Iran and returns to the USA.Back in the USA, Johnson is involved in tracking down a group of suspected Iranian terrorists who are planning to commit nuclear terrorism in New York. The stakes are high: both New York City and Johnson’s kidnapped daughter are at risk.There is plenty of action in this novel, and some very interesting characters. This is a work of fiction, but the actions described are disturbingly plausible. Are the actions of Banquo and his ghosts justified? You can read this novel for the page-turning action, and you can question political correctness, decision-making processes and consequences. In some ways, the novel left me unsatisfied: there is too much plausibility in this (although it may involve different players) for me to just finish the novel and walk away. I didn’t like some of the characters or their actions. Overall the novel made me think about causes and motivations, about events, effects and outcomes. Jennifer Cameron-Smith less

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