I have enjoyed Larsen's David Slayton series, an ex assassin for the Israeli secret service/commando organization, Mossad. I then read Stealing Trinity and was disappointed. It didn't show any of the well written prose of the Slayton series. So I was wondering if I would like the Jammer Davis series.
Oh I do. I really do. I will say that the very ending wasn't done all that well; overly dramatic and hard to believe but that was minor compared to the overall quality of this book, the plot, the matter of fact prose.
Jammer's relationship with his daughter seems realistic (this from a father who went through teenage years with his daughter) as does his relationship with Honeywell. No, not the company, not a thermostat. . . you can find out what that is by READING THE BOOK.
Larsen is a former fighter pilot. Davis is a former fighter pilot. Check.
Larsen is an airplane accident investigator. Davis is an airplane accident investigator. Check.
Larsen seems to, and should know enough intimate details of an airplane crash investigation. Is there drama added? Sure, but hardly enough to hamper a suspension or reality. In fact there are enough details about this investigation in the book to make it seem quite real.
The book moves along briskly and it jumps from location to location, but Larsen does that well. It isn't confusing at all, in fact it helps the story to move along reasonably.
There is a bit of action, a bit of intellectual discourse, family and even a bit of interpersonal relationship.
A note about sex in a book; some authors can do sex well (I'm talking about writing, I have no idea how they perform in the bedroom and good god! That's none of my business) with either graphic detail (Anne Rice is a master at that) and some make it look ridiculous. There are others whose insertion of sex is realistic, it isn't lurid and not graphic at all. I am not a prude. Good sex (hey, we're talking literature here, get your mind out of the gutter and my bedroom!) can add to a story and doesn't offend me at all. Lurid sex done for the sake of sex or sex done poorly can really detract from a story. Larsen does the non lurid, little detail sex in this book and I appreciate that.
So, would I recommend this book? Oh hell yes!
An enjoyable read, an enjoyable character.