Review written and read live on the bookshow by Brian Lowen 23rd July 2015.
This is the second
published book that Peter James wrote in 1982 and has recently been
reprinted. It is a straightforward
thriller with none of the confusions about the occult thrown in as in previous
books.
Our James Bond
type hero here is Max Flynn, a spy working for MI5 and has all the ingredients
you would expect in a James Bond story complete with several gorgeous women.
He is singularly
fighting to prevent a series of nuclear power stations being blown up in
Canada, USA, France, Spain, Italy and the UK.
The crime is funded by Russia and fronted by Namibia.
Sir Isaac Quoit,
chairman of the Atomic Energy Authority, has been kidnapped and Flynn’s first
job is to get him back which he does in a spectacular fashion. Then about a dozen executives of other
nuclear power stations are caught in a honey trap and blackmailed by the evil
Sleder, a tycoon involved in producing nuclear fuel rods.
And so Flynn
carries on, with his boss’s authority, to save the world from nuclear
annihilation. Great stuff if you like
this sort of thing. I am surprised that
Peter James didn’t write more books featuring Max Flynn, but maybe he did but I
haven’t read them yet. I think he has
concentrated on DI Roy Grace of Brighton Police Force as this has been a real
winner for him.
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