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Post by andydecker on Jan 1, 2024 13:47:33 GMT
Shaun Hutson – Necessary Evil (Time Warner Books, 2004, 468 pages; this edition BCA)
 Cover: Larry Rostant What better way to start the year as with Shaun Hutson? So like he did write in his trademark foreword: Let's go. As punctual as trains used to be in the summer of 2004 Shaun Hutson published his next thriller. It is a brutal action story with lots of bullets and blood. In 1990 the Iraqi try to create a super soldier. Ten years later professional criminal Matt Franklin and his pals want to steal money from the Army and attack a transporter. But instead the money they find a pile of mutilated corpses. While a few of his pals are killed on the spot by some unseen snipers, Franklin and others can escape. But their attackers are hunting them mercilessly down, exterminating also their families. At the end only Franklin is still alive, and he tries to avenge his killed wife with the help of a police man. This is one of Hutson's longest novels at the time, and it is basically a very violent chase novel. But it works quite well and is a fast read. One of his better efforts. It must have been quite successful. Time-Warner reprinted the paperback edition twice, Sphere did a new edition in 2010 and Orbit did it as an Ebook in the same year which is still available. |
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