Dick Wolf, the creator of the Law and Order television
program and all of its spinoff series, is back with his second entry in the
Jeremy Fisk series, The Execution.
Fisk is a member of the NYPD Intel Division, charged with protecting the
citizenry of the Big Apple from terrorist threats.
Like many of the characters he created for the small screen,
the characters Wolf creates in print are smart and tough, yet flawed. It is
those flaws that often make a character stand out; they create a level of
uncertainty and tension in the plot line of the story.
Like the most entertaining episodes of the Law and Order
series, Wolf manages to throw in a feints and hooks along the way to keep you
guessing on which direction the story will turn next. The mix of UN Week and
all of the world leaders and inherent mayhem, a shadowy killer dubbed the
Chuprosa who leaves behind stacks of headless corpses and terror plot that is
slow to develop combined with a tough, secretive Mexican Federale charged with the
security of the Mexican president is enough to drive the story.
Unfortunately pacing becomes a problematic as Wolf balances
the intersecting story lines, but stick to it, the payoff comes as the thrills
accelerate to the payoff in the last 50 or so pages of the story. Clearly this sophomore
effort hits a few bumps, but Fisk is the kind of character that could and
should be around for the long haul and Wolf’s track record of success speaks
for itself.
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