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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780451221506
ISBN number: 0451221508
Label: Signet
Manufacturer: Signet
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 304
Printing Date: June 05, 2007
Publishing house: Signet
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Crime reporter Nick Mullins is covering the story of a convicted murderer gunned down in public by a sniper's bullet. More chilling is that the victim was the subject of one of Nick's old crime stories-and that's not Nick's last link to a killer's cold-blooded revenge. Because Nick and his daughter have caught the sniper's eye as well.
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Interesting insight on the world of modern newspapers. The sniper angle has been done, and better, before. King writes well, you won't be bored, but hope for better the subsequent time.
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I have recently discovered Jonathon Kings very first Novel, The Blue Edge of Midnight which was excellent. I tend to get "hooked" on a character and enjoy following this character through several books. That may have been why I didn't enjoy Eye of Vengeance as much. I may have been reading a few too many mysteries as I guessed what was going on about halfway through. It was a quick read but not too hard to put down like the Max Freeman books are. Not a great book but good enough.
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I am writing this review after enjoying most of 'Eye of Vengeance'. I usually try to reflect on what I have just read and think about the plot and character development before making a judgement on the book. I scanned the other reviews here and saw one written by a Patricia Taylour and have to say that I could totally see this book in her very negative light. I think I am going easy on 'Eye of Vengeance' because it is a genre book that really has very few rivals in its class.
First of all, you have to realize that this is a machismo sniper narrative. A lot of authors have made their mark in this arena, perhaps most notably Jack Higgins. However, King has twisted the genre on its head just a little and brought in an investigative mystery thriller edge to it. King gives us a pretty interesting character in the broken spirited news hound Nick Mullins who lost most of his family in a car wreck. He is a morose person and good at the core of his being, so the psychological examination that King puts him through is both revealing and at the same time limited in its scope. Mullins constantly examines his own actions and reasons for living and this is interesting, however... this is a character you probably have come across before, so its a mixed bag.
The plot is great at first. I enjoyed watching King unfold a newspaper lead and roll it out slowly. He does make a mistake in letting the reader get ahead of the characters over the last quarter of the book. You know what will happen and watching the characters not figure it out is frustrating. This could have happened because King every once in a while shifts to the snipers point of view and gives us his point of view. I don't think that this really added anything to the story, but it is thankfully such a minimal part of the narrative that you wont be bothered by it too much.
I have read several bad books that are sort of similar to this in recent months. I would recommend 'Eye of Vengeance to anyone that might want to sit down with a military thriller. Its not for everyone. But I enjoyed it.
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Crime reporter Nick Mullins is still trying to hold life together after a driver killed his wife and one of his twin daughters in a car accident. It is particularly hard now that the driver has been released from prison. But a distraction comes when a sniper kills a prisoner on the jailhouse steps. When another sniper shooting takes place, Mullins begins to realize the victims were both subjects of his in depth articles about killer who received light to no prison time for their crimes.
For me, King really knows how to tell a story and how to create a character. Mullins has suffered a devastating loss but knows he must keep himself together for his daughter, whose loss is as great, perhaps ever greater having both lost her twin and being in the accident when it happened. King presented a real sense of the emotions without it overwhelming the story. But you understand Mullins grief, his frustration with his job, his anger at the justice system and his fear and slight ambiguity when he realizes the sniper is killing in the name of "justice" driven by Mullin's articles. Even the killer, about whom you learn as the story progresses, is an interesting character. I certainly found this to be a page-turning, involving read.
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I needn't rehash the plot which has been so ably described on this page. In fact the idea of the plot, plus the excellent reviews, drew me to buy the book in the very first place. What a disappointment. Nick, the protagonist, is a one-dimensional character, and Michael Redman's story is unfortunately overshadowed by Nick's constant guilt. Nick Mullins works too much. He didn't pay enough attention to his family while his wife and other daughter were alive. He fights with Dierdre, his editor, all the time because she has no ethics. By the fourteenth time I had read all this, my patience wore thin. Worse was the author's practice of telling me everything and showing me nothing. Because the cast of characters is so thinly sketched I could barely tell one cop from another, and the other reporters at Nick's papers were barely more than shadows. For a novel to work, we have to care about the characters, or be fascinated by them, or repulsed. By the end of the book, all the sloppy shortcuts the writer had taken simply wore me out. I cared nothing for the people in the story, or the story itself. My prevailing emotion was anger that I'd wasted the money in buying it. Perhaps I'm alone in my disappointment, but I would suggest no one purchase Eye of Vengeance unless you've read two or three chapters first, and find the style to your liking.
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