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andrew61's review against another edition
3.0
Carina is a conscientious diplomat in the Swedish ministry of foreign affairs . Her job mainly involves providing research and papers for senior dignitaries to support their speeches and she regularly travels to Brussels to speak at European agency meetings. On one such occasion she is very volatile in defending immigrants and in a café afterwards a mysterious man called Jean , impressed by her apparent conscience hands her a secret report about a planned European Intelligence Agency which includes the ability of American agencies to summarily arrest and snatch European citizens. She sends it to her bosses but copies in her boyfriend Jamal who works in the ministry of Justice. All hell breaks loose and invokes the wrath of the sinister British secret service who are definitely the baddies in this book as they use all manner of spy craft including breaking into property, drones following individuals, hacking into phone calls and computers and torture to achieve theirs and ultimately the CIA's aims.
Carina , a likeable character is an innocent drawn into a Kafkaesque nightmare where she does not know what she has done wrong but is suddenly drawn into a web of intrigue. It seems very easy for innocence to be quickly appear suspicious e.g Jamal being confronted with his own book of ancient Egyptian poetry which is interpreted as a call to jihad.
A very enjoyable read in the context of the Snowden affair (referenced on the cover) which certainly had me watching out for CCTV cameras and worrying whether anyone is monitoring my GR posts. A little overlong but enjoyable if not a little scary
Carina , a likeable character is an innocent drawn into a Kafkaesque nightmare where she does not know what she has done wrong but is suddenly drawn into a web of intrigue. It seems very easy for innocence to be quickly appear suspicious e.g Jamal being confronted with his own book of ancient Egyptian poetry which is interpreted as a call to jihad.
A very enjoyable read in the context of the Snowden affair (referenced on the cover) which certainly had me watching out for CCTV cameras and worrying whether anyone is monitoring my GR posts. A little overlong but enjoyable if not a little scary
deepakchecks's review against another edition
adventurous
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.5
tim_worldofsleuths's review
3.0
You can read my review at http://world-of-sleuths.blogspot.com/2017/11/into-raging-blaze.html.
bookwormmichelle's review against another edition
4.0
I wasn't sure what I'd think of this with the very uneven reviews. I really enjoyed it! Set in Sweden and in Brussels, in the context of the EC and Swedish foreign affairs and intelligence, this was a pretty good and involving thriller. The picture it paints of what intelligence offices are capable of doing--the surveillance, the double-crossing of each other--is pretty chilling. I have a bit of a quibble with the ending--the book simply seemed to stop. Still I enjoyed it.
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