Real life sucks. Just when one thing seems sorted another knocks you sideways instead. Gah. Slowly g...
Real life sucks. Just when one thing seems sorted another knocks you sideways instead. Gah. Slowly getting back to grips on here but can they please stop changing things?
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After being thoroughly unimpressed by David Wolstencrofts second novel I had no intentions of looking for this one but when I spotted it lurking on pile at a recent carboot sale for mere pennies (and I had just found a fiver in the ashtray of my car) I decided to give it a try.
Wolstencroft was one of the team behind the tv show Spooks so it will be no surprise to learn that his books follow the other people in the same line of work.
Good News Bad News, opens with two men tossing a coin to make a phone call, as one of the men goes to the phonebox to make the call a motorcycle appears on the street and blows the whole thing up.
From this point we are taken back two days to find out exactly why these two men are tossing coins before making calls and why it is that someone wants to kill them.
Charlie and George are forced to embark on a journey evading others from their agency and with noone to trust not even each other can they survive?
The plot was fast paced and there were enough twists thrown in to make it less than predicatable. The characters do remain quite sketchy although since they are spies this isnt a major downfall of the plot, nor did I notice any particularly contradictory areas. In general while this isnt a genre of book I tend to enjoy I did quite enjoy this, far more than I expected if truth be told, though this could have had something to do with the fact it cost me almost nothing (anyone else find they enjoy things more when they cost less?). As a debut novel this is good and I would have hoped that his second book would build upon this foundation, sadly for Wolstencroft his second was a major disappointment and despite this being better I probably still wouldnt bother to read anything else he writes.
I paid 20p for my copy but it can be found for sale on amazon marketplace and greenmetropolis for slightly more than this ( 1p plus p&p and £3.75 respectively). At 436 pages long its a decent read without being over long and given the pace of the plot this has to be about the longest the book should be without having gotten very confusing.
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