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A review by fossen
The Trinity Six by Charles Cumming
3.0
Comparisons and marketing can often hurt a book more that help it. The Trinity Six is a case in point. When you start comparing a book to LeCarre's Karla Trilogy, you start raising the bar pretty high - and it's a bar set too high for Charles Cumming's somewhat perfunctory thriller. If anything, this feels more Dan Brown than Len Deighton, with a professor protagonist, huge swaths of poorly-disguised exposition and backgrounding, and a series of twists and turns always laid out in the last sentence of a chapter.
Honestly, as the novel wore on and the comparisons wore off, I warmed to The Trinity Six. There are a number of characters and relationships that start in cliche, but then grow into a life of their own. Had I encountered this in mass market paperback at a checkout stand, I may have reacted with pleasant surprise. It's a fun romp that occasionally breaks out of the airport paperback mold, but only occasionally.
(This is an Advanced Readers Edition I received through a Goodreads Giveaway.)
Honestly, as the novel wore on and the comparisons wore off, I warmed to The Trinity Six. There are a number of characters and relationships that start in cliche, but then grow into a life of their own. Had I encountered this in mass market paperback at a checkout stand, I may have reacted with pleasant surprise. It's a fun romp that occasionally breaks out of the airport paperback mold, but only occasionally.
(This is an Advanced Readers Edition I received through a Goodreads Giveaway.)