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A review by ssindc
Moscow Rules by Daniel Silva
3.0
Fully satisfactory (indeed, darn close to perfect) airport, airplane, and hotel reading...
I definitely wouldn't start with this one .... In comparison to the others I've read, I found this installment was on the high end of the scale in terms of momentum and sustained page turning, but not necessarily one of my favorites in terms of character development (including the (now familiar) protagonist, the newly introduced antagonist, and/or the supporting casts for both) or my interest in the underlying scenario, situation, or plot. I fear (or sense or, at very least, guess) that the reason the installment was weighted this way (seemed like it flew by even if the story arc wasn't fully developed) is that it's part of a series within the series or, in other words, the sub-plot hasn't played itself out yet.
Silva increasingly has claimed the preeminent spot among authors I turn to when I know I'm going to be trapped in a long steel tube (yup, an airplane) for a long time. So I plan to keep working my way through the series.
I definitely wouldn't start with this one .... In comparison to the others I've read, I found this installment was on the high end of the scale in terms of momentum and sustained page turning, but not necessarily one of my favorites in terms of character development (including the (now familiar) protagonist, the newly introduced antagonist, and/or the supporting casts for both) or my interest in the underlying scenario, situation, or plot. I fear (or sense or, at very least, guess) that the reason the installment was weighted this way (seemed like it flew by even if the story arc wasn't fully developed) is that it's part of a series within the series or, in other words, the sub-plot hasn't played itself out yet.
Silva increasingly has claimed the preeminent spot among authors I turn to when I know I'm going to be trapped in a long steel tube (yup, an airplane) for a long time. So I plan to keep working my way through the series.