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Post by andydecker on Mar 6, 2022 14:30:37 GMT
Shaun Hutson - Knife Edge (Little, Brown, 1997, HC, 307 pages)  Mark Taylor In 1997 Hutson had established a rythm. One novel a year. This is Sean Doyle 3, so it is bullets and motorcycles. This is a straight actioner. To sabotage the peace process with the IRA and to vent his rage soldier Neville has hidden a couple of bombs in London. Doyle shall find and kill him. The story - intercut with a few flashbacks - starts at 7.03 a.m. and ends at 7.59 p.m. on the same day. It is just action, no sex, no supernatural. The action scenes are well done, but it is not the most complicated story. Maybe Hutson wrote some novels under a pseudonym in these years. A lasting rumor is that he wrote a 6 novel series of historic war stories under the name Richard Howard about a French soldier in the Napoleonic wars. No. 1 Bonaparte's Sons came out the same year as this. It is not exactly Sharpe and Harper, but not badly done and offers a different point of view. |
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