One of the world's deadliest assassins, a lone woman hired by the IRA, has a plan to kill Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that hinges on a kidnapped Chicago boy. But she doesn't count on the boy's mother, Jessica, as she searches for her son.
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From Publishers Weekly
When the reader is compelled to skim long paragraphs of description in a thriller, it's a sure sign that the author needs to cut to the chase; but when one must read page after page without encountering anything vital, then the chase has pretty much ground to a halt, which is the case in this overwritten (and overwrought) debut. The premise is promising: A contract killer known only as Gorgon is enlisted to carry out an IRA-sponsored hit on Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Gorgon crafts a clever plan around Thatcher's well-known love of photo-opportunities with children by kidnapping and brainwashing Danny, the six-year-old son of American photographer Jessica Moore. Jessica's frantic search for Danny eventually connects her with British agent Trent Stanford, who's leading the search for the IRA agents behind a recent failed attempt on Thatcher's life. but their race to save Thatcher and rescue Danny is buried beneath the rubble of such incomprehensible sentences as "It was only prudent to bring experience to the unknown that took the form of the sacred in the hush of the great library." Add to that flat-footed references to 1984 and Moby Dick and long stretches of deadening prose about feminists, angry male gods and bitches, and the plot goes into overload and the reader into exhaustion. (Sept.)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
It's 1984, and IRA sympathizers who want Margaret Thatcher dead hire a woman assassin whose plan hinges on kidnapping a six-year-old boy. The boy's mother and Scotland Yard special agent Trent Stanford must foil the killer. Ho hum. In the hands of a more skillful writer or someone with the storyteller's art, this dated thriller might have been entertaining. Instead, one finds jarring shifts in voice, verb tense, and point of view; purple prose, labored and dense; a garbled effusion of cryptic fragments; strained metaphors; and a disjointed style lacking grace or fluidity. Massive editing might have saved this first novel. As it is, only the most hardened readers obsessed with finishing what they start will stick with this clunker to the end. Not recommended.ARonnie H. Terpening, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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