12-16-2007, 05:58 AM
A little under two hours for this new Spenser novel, Now and Then. It has a bit of a plot, but as usual each plot chapter is balanced by a chapter of Spenser talking to his girlfriend Susan about their relationship. Just to be topical, this book involves the FBI, CIA and a homegrown terrorist cel. It kind of works. The joy of Spenser is his interaction with other people. He can be the smartass or the toughguy or the sensitive guy. You read these books for the dialogue and fortunately that's all they are.
Patriot Acts is the seventh book by Greg Rucka about Atticus Kodiak. Kind of tough to live down that name. Atticus used to be a bodyguard in NYC but in the last book he joined up with one "The Ten", a group of the best assassins in the world. Now he is one of them. He had to train to be a great assassin to go toe to toe with another great assassin to protect his client, also an assassin. At the end of the last book, Atticus and his client killed the other assassin. But now they are on the run, suspected of murder and other crimes.
Patriot Acts tells of Atticus quest to find out who hired the other assassin and clear his name. He also gives in to his love for the client. In the end of course, they find out the US government is partially responsible for his plight. Ooooh, the drama. It ends weakly. No big shoot out. No mano y mano on the top of the captial dome. I guess the tension was Atticus committing his first assassination. I would have preferred the big show down.
Words of wisdom from the book. When you hire a killer, everyone knows it's murder. When you hire an assassin, no one knows it's a murder
Patriot Acts is the seventh book by Greg Rucka about Atticus Kodiak. Kind of tough to live down that name. Atticus used to be a bodyguard in NYC but in the last book he joined up with one "The Ten", a group of the best assassins in the world. Now he is one of them. He had to train to be a great assassin to go toe to toe with another great assassin to protect his client, also an assassin. At the end of the last book, Atticus and his client killed the other assassin. But now they are on the run, suspected of murder and other crimes.
Patriot Acts tells of Atticus quest to find out who hired the other assassin and clear his name. He also gives in to his love for the client. In the end of course, they find out the US government is partially responsible for his plight. Ooooh, the drama. It ends weakly. No big shoot out. No mano y mano on the top of the captial dome. I guess the tension was Atticus committing his first assassination. I would have preferred the big show down.
Words of wisdom from the book. When you hire a killer, everyone knows it's murder. When you hire an assassin, no one knows it's a murder
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