Book Review – Way Behind here

I think I’ve read two or three books since I finished The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson. This book was recommended to me by a fellow National Noveler and I’m glad she did so. It is a thriller in every since of the word. Sadly, like my own first novel, this thriller screams, “This is my first novel!”



I don’t think there was a single vocabulary word underlined throughout the course of the novel, but I did like a few passages, again, not enough to underline them.
The plot was riveting. Who wouldn’t want to read about CIA agent thrown into Al Queda before September 11th, trying to make amends to his handlers and his family for having missed the clues that would have helped him alert the US about the attack. Secondly, having planned a couple of terrorist attacks of my own for thriller writing purposes, Berenson’s idea is really quite interesting and keeps the reader on edge.

I look forward to reading his second effort and I hope it does scream, “I’m better, I’m a second novel.”