by William Kent Krueger
This is a far cry from the "Cork" series. It is filled with violence that mars the potential.
I became acquainted with W K Krueger’s writing with ORDINARY GRACE. This book (a stand alone, not part of his Cork O’Connor series) is VERY different. From the first page to the last, this is a hard charging, atmospheric, political assassination, psychological thriller. Krueger is a good writer who ...
The writing was simplistic and passive, the story was really two stories with a lagging section in the middle that barely connected it, and the more interesting half (the second half) got barely enough page time to count. They spent more time blathering on about Moses and his oh-so-dark-and-twisted...
This may have been Krueger's attempt to create an alternate series - it features not his usual hero, Cork O'Connor, but a secret agent named Bo Thorsen, in service to the White House. However, if so, it didn't take off, and on the whole I'm glad the author stuck with O'Connor. The secret halls of po...
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