The Getaway by Tom Barber
****
Yesterday the weather was ghastly and it rained all day, a perfect day then for getting my teeth into a good pacey thriller.
The Getaway is the second book featuring British copper Sam Archer (I've not read the first) and the action over a week in New York City is relentless, exciting, bloody and sometimes a little implausible. But I read the book in a couple of sittings - the term unputdownable is made for books like this - and didn't always spot the twists and double crosses.
Sometimes the gory descriptions were a bit much, mostly because there was little variety in the spraying of brains and blood, and the narration could be a little over complicated with unnecessary detail of roads and routes, yet at the same time could be lacking when it came to character traits.
This was a free download so the question has to be will I buy any others in the series? Well, maybe!
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