Reading Thursday
Feb. 27th, 2015 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyphomandraJust finished: Risk, by Dick Francis. Roland Britten is an accountant and an amateur jockey; after he wins a race he is kidnapped and held on a yacht until he manages to escape. And then, four days later he is kidnapped again. The set-up here is great, and the characters are good; the ending felt a little abrupt and I'm not convinced Roland's decision is entirely earned by the text. A fun read, though, and although I guessed part of the solution I missed a fairly big chunk.
Reading now: Genocide of One, Kazuaki Takano (trans Philip Gabriel). Thriller. A new life form that could wipe out humanity has emerged in the Congo; an American-run team of elite operatives are sent to eradicate it first. One of the team has a terminally ill child, and in Japan a pharmaceutical researcher receives orders from his dead father about synthesising a drug that may cure this disease. I'm 100 pages in, so things are still all drawing together. Author majored in film studies and works as a scriptwriter; the military plotline is a bit filmic, but the Japanese researcher has a bit more depth to it.
Up next: Probably the Star Wars book. Possibly the next Sarah Caudwell, if I work out where I put it, and Moominsummer Madness is still lurking nearby.
Reading now: Genocide of One, Kazuaki Takano (trans Philip Gabriel). Thriller. A new life form that could wipe out humanity has emerged in the Congo; an American-run team of elite operatives are sent to eradicate it first. One of the team has a terminally ill child, and in Japan a pharmaceutical researcher receives orders from his dead father about synthesising a drug that may cure this disease. I'm 100 pages in, so things are still all drawing together. Author majored in film studies and works as a scriptwriter; the military plotline is a bit filmic, but the Japanese researcher has a bit more depth to it.
Up next: Probably the Star Wars book. Possibly the next Sarah Caudwell, if I work out where I put it, and Moominsummer Madness is still lurking nearby.
