Flee (Codename: Chandler #1) in SSG: Spy/Spec-Ops Group

Sep 10, 2015 Mike (the Paladin) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: spy-fi, thriller, action

I wish I could go higher than 3 stars here...I had high hopes. I don't dislike the book but it get's a 3 by what might be called the proverbial skin of it's proverbial teeth. I mean it could have been much better. I liked Konrath's other series pretty well. Here while the idea is good there are some...egregious flaws.

The book in many ways put in mind of a comic book. The characters verge on being superheroes and super-villains. I'll give the book this, there is plenty of action. I mean I love a I wish I could go higher than 3 stars here...I had high hopes. I don't dislike the book but it get's a 3 by what might be called the proverbial skin of it's proverbial teeth. I mean it could have been much better. I liked Konrath's other series pretty well. Here while the idea is good there are some...egregious flaws.

The book in many ways put in mind of a comic book. The characters verge on being superheroes and super-villains. I'll give the book this, there is plenty of action. I mean I love a good action book. The problem is that a book needs more than just action to be "good action".

You get another assassin working for an organization so secret that not even the government it serves really knows about it. Now I've said before that an idea not being completely new is not necessarily a problem. I mean how many truly new and unique ideas could there be after thousands of years of story telling. The thing is that while we get a lot of good ideas from the spy/fi and action genres we also get almost every cliche that's ever been in those genres also.

Look, the book is readable and since I bought 3 at once I plan to follow it up. That said what you'll get is some good action with a plot you've seen before and characters from Protagonists are Us.

I'll say a little more under a spoiler warning ...but over all i can recommend this as a read most who like thrillers, action and so on will like. Just not really as good as I think it could have been.

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