Good apart from the end. Was very disappointing, especially as the rest of the book had been so good.

At the start of this book, a man receives a call from a good friend, only to hear his friend die and be told by the murderer that he's next. He then spends the rest of the book trying to work out what's going on.

The idea is clever, but the execution is less effective. We have three naratives going on at once for most of the book. The guy who gets the call tells us what's going on from his point of view, as do the killers and the police (who get involved when the the first murder is uncovered).

The author jumps between these 3 naratives as we head toward a point where the guy who got the call finds out what's going on and either survives or dies (and the police arrive on the scene). Once the 3 constituent parts are at the same point at the same time, the ending is told from one point of view.

I think that this is a problem because just when you're getting into a particular character, you jump to another and you have to read 20 to 30 pages of stuff you don't care for to get back to the storyline that most interests you. I found that irritating after a while.

In addition, the book feels like something that's been written for television. As an example, when you're about to leave a character, there's a televison style 'hook' that makes you read till the next time a character arrives. This is fine at first, but after a while you start thinking 'Enough already with the hooks.'

1 star - binned it before half way, please don't write anymore!!!
2 stars - finally binned it after really trying, I mean really trying and I hate to not finishing someth....
3 stars - finished it but boy was that hard work on times, it just about hooked me back in as I was about to dump it
4 stars - great book but it lacked something, something, can't put my finger on it but.... something
5 stars - want more, more books, more movies about the books, more movies about the authors and the making of the movie, just more!!!(less)

The end felt a bit meh and the plot holes are huge, but for the most part I was very entertained and intrigued. Worth it.

I have never read a 400+ page book so quickly. I started yesterday morning and have finished it in under 24 hours. This seems. appropriate for this book which takes place in the same timescale.

A rollercoaster of a ride. A man running for his life and the safety of his family.

I found it quite strange. I didn't understand a lot of what was happening. It was ok to read but I wouldn't read it again.

When I received this book from my librarian teacher as a gift. The first thought that came to me when I looked at this book was, that it would be a really crime-hyped thriller book.
Here the question rises " BUT"?
But it was not the way I expected it to be. For more than a year now, every time I hold this book read a page or two and then leave it in its place. Why you may ask? Because the excitement I felt at first lead me to hold it and read it, but after that when I started to turn pages one by one, the excitement slowly started to vanish within me.
The style of writing and the concept itself were great ones I will give that a 5/5.
But the development of the characters and the way the story went on, I guess it was not to my taste.
Even though I love crime and thriller novels to read, this was slow and not how I expected it to be. Still, there were times when the emotion of what is going to happen next rises within, and at the end, I finished reading the book.
I would recommend it to those who do like to read such a style and development novel.

I really enjoyed this book with it's fast pace, the "everyday man", the evil villian etc. I like the way it was told from two different points of view, the victim and the cop.

Another excellent job of narration by Paul Thornley.