The Intruders
Finished On: 9th March 2008
This book is teaming with ideas. Like a few recent thrillers, it doesn’t try too hard to give you all the answers or explain away things that aren’t really important to the story. It is what it is, it happens, deal with it. You only ever know what the lead character knows helping add to the tension as the character crashes wildly from one discovery to the next, in a permemnt state of confusion.
There are a few flaws - some things that we really should have had explained are missing - and if i was the lead character i don’t think i’d be satisfied with the answers i had.
However the writing is fast and tight and the action scenes detailed and pacey.
This is a well written book, and an intelligent book. All too often in fiction the answers are spelled out across the page - but not here - this book though uses its secrecy to its advantage. A little more polish towards the end and this would have been excellent.