Christopher Reich Rules of Deception (2008).
Well, I guess I won't be getting those brain cells back anytime soon.
This is number 1 in the Jonathan Ransom series. Hero: unlikely doctor built along Mills & Boon lines becomes the unwitting pawn in a battle for techno-supremacy between some stereotypical forces of good vs. evil. Probably he oughtn't to have inadvertently married a deep-cover agent.
Pros: setting (nice bits of snowy Europe). Interesting uses of technology.
Cons: wooden, wooden hero. Completely over the top bad guys (horribly scarred religious nutter and (and) an assassin employing the mysterious poisons of the Sth American Indians): "The Ghost"; "The Pilot".
Give me a break. There's even someone called Von Daniken. OK, I concede that it's not this bloke but let's not get intertextual with our crazies.
You've been warned.
Rating: 2/10.
If you liked this... lost, lost cause. Doesn't anyone write quick thrills espionage like Alistair MacLean anymore?
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