A Special Relationship - Douglas Kennedy

Advantages: Fast-paced reading, compelling account of real-life issues
Disadvantages: Superficial in places, threadbare, too much emphasis on action

Introduction A few weeks ago while sitting in Starbucks with my friend she put the book she was reading on the table. She went to get some coffees so I sneaked a peek and caught a random sentence mid-page that read: " The worst thing about London is that nobody really fits in. And the best thing about London is that nobody really fits in". Well, I thought, that actually sounds like me and said to her I want to read it so I borrowed her library ...
... Douglas Kennedy is a contemporary author of popular fiction novels - many of them bestsellers and translated into over a dozen languages - including The Pursuit of Happiness the book you will have most likely to have heard of. He started to become known as a non-fiction writer of travel books such as Beyond the Pyramids (1988) and In God's Country (1996). He published his first novel in 1994 entitled Dead of Heart which rather understandably ... Read review