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A review by hcq
The Informant by Thomas Perry
3.0
Some very good bits, but overall not as good as the first two. Too much recapping, at too much length, and too many stories that felt sort of arbitrarily stuck in (didn't really need another motel shootout, btw). Shame, too, because some of them (bits of the main character's history and past) could have been useful in the earlier books.
One of my favorite scenes, though, came where the lead remembers a day he spent when he was just starting out with another young guy, and the two of them were talking about how it would be nice to be able to go to college, and then realizing why, in their line of work, that would never be a possibility. It was sad, almost poignant, and certainly unexpected in a thriller like this.
Overall, though, this was the first one of the three where I found myself getting impatient, and thinking, "Oh, enough already, end!"
One of my favorite scenes, though, came where the lead remembers a day he spent when he was just starting out with another young guy, and the two of them were talking about how it would be nice to be able to go to college, and then realizing why, in their line of work, that would never be a possibility. It was sad, almost poignant, and certainly unexpected in a thriller like this.
Overall, though, this was the first one of the three where I found myself getting impatient, and thinking, "Oh, enough already, end!"