Christopher Morgan Jones is out with his third
novel of international corporate intrigue and spying, The Searcher, which shifts focus away from the hero/main character
of his two initial entries Ben Webster, to Webster’s boss, Ike Hammer.
The
Searcher, starts
out with the Webster and Hammer going their separate ways and in the process
setting the table for all that follows, in what has the making of an
international thriller against a back drop of Hammer being the target of a
criminal investigation spawned by Webster’s actions. Therein lies the problem;
in an effort to track down answers, Hammer is thrust back into the field and quickly
flounders, like a fish out of water.
While I am a veteran Tom Clancy thrillers
and other complex story narratives, I quickly found myself lost in a sea of
seemingly disconnected characters and far flung locales. Has a found myself
struggling to grasp who was who and where they fit into the story my interest
began to wane.
I continued to muddle along in the hope
that the storyline would come back to me and the finish would get stronger.
Unfortunately, that never happened. It reached the point where I could even
determine if I had a compelling reason to care about the characters or the
story and I found myself throwing my hands up in submission.
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