by Sam Bourne
Will Monroe, a NY Times Metro reporter trying to prove himself, writes two seemingly unrelated stories that get prominent attention on the newspaper's front page and suddenly finds his world turned upside down. The first part of the story moved painfully slow, not because of the pace but due to th...
Will Monroe has an American Father and English mother. He grew up in England and now is working as a junior journalist in the New York Times. When he is assigned a murder there are questions about the reasoning. When he finds that another murder is somewhat linked, and his wife goes missing, kidn...
First Sam Bourne book I have read, though I have read his non fiction political books.The plot concerns a new reporter to the New York Times, he gets a break on a story and from that point his life unravels. His wife is kidnapped, and he is drawn into a plot that is a blend of Jewish mysticism and f...
Absolutely implausible plot backed up by poor writing in places. It had enough to keep me going just to the end out of curiosity but there were times when I was tempted to just Google the ending. Ridiculous riddles and silly predictions were nearly counter-weighted by an interesting look at the Hass...
Scene setting: Manhattan - Cathedral - Handel's MessiahOne of these religious thrillers which now and again can be good enough to get the popcorn out.Ubiquitous to the genre, there were many acrostics and codes; each individual one repeated ad nauseum. Overall though, a solid 2*.2* The Righteous Men...
This was real page turner. Will Monroe, Jr. is a twenty-something reporter with the New York Times who has stumbled onto something odd. Someone is killing righteous men all across the planet. While investigating this, Monroe encounters troubling forces in Brooklyn’s Hassidic community, and ultimate...
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