He was an experienced military man trained to capture and extract dangerous arms dealers to hand them over to the world court.


She was a stone-cold killer, dedicated to hunting down ex-Nazis and giving them the death they deserved.


Is there really much more you need to know?


*Let me warn you. This review may become more about me expressing my angst then actually providing a fair and thorough discussion*


The absurdity of this novel was apparent from the get go, and for the first time my philosophy of “Reading is always beneficial, even bad books teach you something” (stolen from some-one wiser than me) was almost dropped. In the first scene we are introduced to a bad-guy who literally sits around reading communist manifestos to ‘enjoy the descriptions on how the populace is subjugated’


Of course he is also brash arrogant, mean and everything else a bad guy should be ‘Reggie’ our Nazi-killer quickly dispatches him.


Then the novel suffers the superman problem – we already have characters established as being experts at taking down the bad-guys, we already know they hunt histories evilest baddies. So where on earth can any literary tension come from?


By the way the Mr and Mrs Smith love story between was only unpredictable in terms of how drawn out and annoying it was.


Anywho, D.B. tries to make our antagonist more compelling with some torture scenes (he tortures some Muslim terrorists who betrayed him, it seems the D.B. perhaps wasn’t quite brave enough to have the ultimate evil bad-guy a Muslim but was happy to have them closely associated though). But really just ticks the same boxes that every other bad guy does. Including using James Bondian plots that allow the heroes to escape – justified with the explanation that the baddie wanted to milk the satisfaction of killing the heroes.


Rather than continue I will just sum-up. Deliver Us From Evil is effectively the aftermath of a failed James Bond plotline with all the research, effort, good humour and style sucked out of it. Normally when I read a book I don’t like I at least accept that some people may be into it however, in this case I would not recommend this book to anyone.