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The Devil's Light (2011)

by Richard North Patterson(Favorite Author)

3.31 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1451616805 (ISBN13: 9781451616804)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Scribner

review 1: This was a marginal read at best. Patterson historically has written strong spy/action/thriller novels. This book in audio took until hour 10 of a 12 hours to engage the action/thriller part. The story was riddled with dialogue and history lessons on the geopolitics of the middle east. They were lectures, not dialogue, and crippled any narrative flow. Reading this 1 1/2 years post-release, it is a fairly accurate representation of the events that occurred prior to 9/11/11. But it was not an action/thriller. Dennis Boutsikaris, who is an excellent narrator, seemed to rush through choppy pseudo-dialogue and poorly crafted characters. I don't blame him. In some books, the reader simply doesn't bond with the protagonist. This was one of them.
review 2: A bomb is st... moreolen by terrorists intending to use it to attack a city, and this book is the story of the agent setting out to foil them. A fairly engaging, if unoriginal, plot and the hero, Brooke, is much in the same vein as others produced by this author. There is another familiar path when no sooner have we been introduced to Brooke than we are transported back 10 years for the back story. I thought that story of the transporting of the bomb through various countries was more interesting than that of Brooke, the main reason being the conversations/monologues between Brooke and his acquaintances. Luckily there were no donkeys about when these happened or they would be minus their hind legs. The story mixes factual events with the plot, not particularly well - in fact there is an attack on one of the most famous sites in history and the reaction is, to say the least, fairly muted. The tale comes to an end pretty satisfactorily but no more. All in all a reasonably good read but, in the words of the king, it could have done with ' a little less conversation, a lot more action' less

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