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David Bliss #2
The Fish Kisser
In The Fish Kisser , a megalomaniac becomes determined to exact revenge on the Western world through a devious plot of global cyber-warfare. He enlists his own agents to track down and kidnap the experts and educated elite that can help him accomplish the unthinkable. With a series of staged deaths and disappearances, he sets his plan in motion. When the hired henchmen target Roger LeClarc, an English computer expert with a dark secret of his own, the hunters become the hunted. English detective David Bliss, who chased and was chased around the English countryside in Presumed Dead , teams up with Dutch detective Yolanda Pieters to solve this improbable affair. Fighting internal politics, stumbling upon government cover-ups, and even battling Saddam Hussein’s Republican Guard, together they chase a trail of blood, intrigue, and romance across Europe to Iraq in a desperate search for the kidnapped specialists. Fans of the David Bliss character will not be disappointed as James Hawkins turns the action up several notches.
- GenresMystery
360 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2001
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James Hawkins
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James Hawkins was a police commander in the U.K. for twenty years and a Canadian private investigator for a further eight years. From 1992 to 1997, he was director of education at the Canadian Institute for Environmental Investigations. His debut mystery novel, Missing: Presumed Dead (2001), introduced his popular detective, David Bliss.
There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
James Hawkins was a police commander in the U.K. for twenty years and a Canadian private investigator for a further eight years. From 1992 to 1997, he was director of education at the Canadian Institute for Environmental Investigations. His debut mystery novel, Missing: Presumed Dead (2001), introduced his popular detective, David Bliss.
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March 11, 2019
I'd give it a 1.5 - just barely OK.
The editing was the main problem. Choppy, circular, verbose and generally annoying when it wasn't boring.
Word-nerds will gnash their teeth - several times used taught instead of taut, passed instead of past and so on. Use of apostrophes and other punctuation woefully inaccurate. Oh, and people being 'on tender-hooks' really did it for me.
However, the story, under all the garbage, is a good one. I think a decent editor could teach this guy to write a real gripper.
I'm going to try the last book in the series to see if that has happened anywhere along the line.
The editing was the main problem. Choppy, circular, verbose and generally annoying when it wasn't boring.
Word-nerds will gnash their teeth - several times used taught instead of taut, passed instead of past and so on. Use of apostrophes and other punctuation woefully inaccurate. Oh, and people being 'on tender-hooks' really did it for me.
However, the story, under all the garbage, is a good one. I think a decent editor could teach this guy to write a real gripper.
I'm going to try the last book in the series to see if that has happened anywhere along the line.
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