Dark Stuff

Okay, I don't just read incredible non-fiction. Into every literary diet a little mystery must fall. Two of my recent adventures to the dark side are Dark Harbor by Stuart Woods and The Defector by Daniel Silva. Dark Harbor is a routine little mystery that tells you it is good to have money. If that wasn't already apparent to you, it also tells you who the doers of the deed are well in advance of the end of the book. Actually, he doesn't tell you, but, just like the money thing, this is obvious from the first time they are seen and maybe before. It's well written, so this wasn't a tedious adventure, but it could easily have been.

Love Daniel Silva. Or should I say that I used to love him. This is getting to be like Ludlum. Very formulaic. Now he's added a new twist of just ending the darn things. I almost thought the tape was broken, but a different voice comes on and says goodbye (in different words.) That and the fact that I don't listen to tapes anymore.

Then I looked on Amazon and other readers noted the same thing. This seems to be a ploy to get you to read the next book. I'm not going to. The cute little art restorer and his wife can just go off on a new adventure without me. The best part of this book was that it was on sale at Audible. I don't feel as cheated as I would have if I'd used one of my precious credits or more of my precious dollars.