I much prefer the paperback cover.

I much prefer the paperback cover.

Better than some of the murder mysteries of the genre, not as good as Keegan’s Fortunes of War. This book was good in a lot of ways, in fact, I probably would have loved it if I hadn’t read Fortunes of War first. The characters are pretty cool, I like the fact they are journalists and have worked together for years, yet are still in love with each other and aren’t just "companions." There’s pretty good character development, even though the story is written from one character’s viewpoint, you still feel like you know the other guy, which is more than the last book I read (the Zubro mystery.) I’m not sure any other writer could have found so many different places for scenes all on a small island. I mean, these guys covered that whole island. I didn’t particularly like Greg getting raped at the end, however, I understand the dilemma of the author as to whether to just threaten more violence or to actually have something or some part of it happen. I mean, the guy had been threatening thru the whole book, I can see why it had to escalate at the end. And of course, there had to be justification for killing the guy at the end because they let it be known that if the guy went free, they wouldn’t be safe even in London. I wouldn’t mind reading some more adventures of these two, the book refers to many of their past adventures in covering hard-hitting stories for their magazine.

On a scale of 1 to 10, it’s a 7.