This is the second John Ling book that I read. I read the second one because I was so impressed with the first. Just like the first book that I read, The Blasphemer, Fallen Angel starts out with a bang, an explosion, and captures and holds our interest with no-let-up action. John Ling expertly and tantalizingly lets out information piecemeal, in a teasing manner, just when we need to know it. His sentences are short and terse. His chapters are brief and filled with drama and suspense. I read this hard to put down book in a day.
The principal character in this drama is Kendra, a former spy, a pretty young woman who was traumatized by the war in Iraq and the killings, a war she participated in and in which she also killed people. She, a non-Muslim, has also not gotten over the break up that she had with a man she loved and still loves, a Muslim man, Ryan. Ten years have now passed and she is in therapy, no longer part of the special spy agency with which she was previously involved. Sitting drinking coffee in Aukland, New Zealand she sees Ryan drive by and starts to follow him. As she does so, she discovers that three men are following Ryan, men with guns. So starts the drama that ends in many deaths, with cover-ups, and much more.
All in all this is a really good well-written engrossing story, which develops at just the right pace with suspense; and the plot, characters, and the way they act are interesting. In addition, John Ling spices his story with fascinating information about spying, the volatile psychology of various criminals, good and bad Muslims, and much more. John Ling has outrun John le Carre by a literary mile. I will read others.
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