Tales from the Gryphon

The mark of the assassin

Manoj's hackergotchi
Friday 30 November
2007
License: GPL

Based on the ?The Secret Servant, I ordered a whole slew of books from the same author, including this one. I am still impressed by the geopolitical insight; a few years before 9/11, the author sets up a reasonable facsimile by having evil doers blow up a plane taking off from New York; though the evil doers in question are bunches of cold war nostalgic members of the military-intelligence-industrial collective.

The action is till fast paced, though I am far less impressed by the characters than I was in the secret servant. Micheal and Elizabeth seem to be two dimensional cut outs, not people; the person I felt most in touch with was the evil doer assassin.

Manoj