Review: THE CHIANG MAI ASSIGNMENT
This is a nice fast paced read and a change from the WW1 stuff I've been reading lately.
I must first say I was drawn to this irresistible cover! Again!
In this, the second book of the trilogy, POV has changed from first person to omniscient. We are now able see what’s going in London and in the camps and behind enemy lines in the hot, snake-ridden jungle and along the banks of the crocodile-infested river.
The continuing story twists and turns in this way and that, with wheels within wheels turning in different directions. You just can’t trust anybody in the intelligence and drug-smuggling community! I cannot say too much about the storyline of this or the first book, since just about anything will give things away, and whether or not Mike gets the girl. There is some of the ‘man finds girl, man loses girl, man finds girl again thing’ going on. This book is a little steamier and once again builds to a nail-biting climax—I can’t say conclusion since it leaves some threads open for the third book.
Frank Hurst’s writing leaves the reader with the impression that he must have real inside knowledge and experience of customs operations and the drug import/export business as well as with those swampy regions of Thailand. I have no doubt that Frank is working hard somewhere in a hut somewhere in Thailand on the last book, so we’ll be able to rest easy knowing England is safe and these characters’ forever-challenged love lives are intact and they may go on to live happily ever after. Or will they?
I must first say I was drawn to this irresistible cover! Again!
In this, the second book of the trilogy, POV has changed from first person to omniscient. We are now able see what’s going in London and in the camps and behind enemy lines in the hot, snake-ridden jungle and along the banks of the crocodile-infested river.
The continuing story twists and turns in this way and that, with wheels within wheels turning in different directions. You just can’t trust anybody in the intelligence and drug-smuggling community! I cannot say too much about the storyline of this or the first book, since just about anything will give things away, and whether or not Mike gets the girl. There is some of the ‘man finds girl, man loses girl, man finds girl again thing’ going on. This book is a little steamier and once again builds to a nail-biting climax—I can’t say conclusion since it leaves some threads open for the third book.
Frank Hurst’s writing leaves the reader with the impression that he must have real inside knowledge and experience of customs operations and the drug import/export business as well as with those swampy regions of Thailand. I have no doubt that Frank is working hard somewhere in a hut somewhere in Thailand on the last book, so we’ll be able to rest easy knowing England is safe and these characters’ forever-challenged love lives are intact and they may go on to live happily ever after. Or will they?
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