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Book Review: Rules of Vengeance eBook: Christopher Reich: The Kindle StoreRules of Vengeance,

By Gail Rodgers “moonwishes” (North East, PA USA) -

  

  

This review is from: Rules of Vengeance (Hardcover)

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Knowing this was a second book in a series, I saved it to wait for my library to get me a copy of Rules of Deception, the first in the series, and I’m glad I did. Although this book can certainly be read as a stand alone book, if you want to really understand the main characters, it will help if you read the first book and then start the second on. I started reading Rules of Vengeance within hours of finishing Rules of Deception. The two books are so well seamed together, that it felt like I had just turned to the next chapter of the first book.

Yet another fast paced book, this time with the action beginning in London, but then moving throughout Europe and especially into France. The only two people in the book that somehow you feel like you can trust are Dr. Jonathan Ransom and DCI Kate Ford of the London Metropolitan Police. You can feel their innate goodness, honesty and trustworthiness. Every other character in the book seems to have two if not three or four faces that they present to the world. This is a book of high suspense in the underworld of international intrigue and no one is who they seem to be nor do they work for the country that they appear to. Nothing is as it seems in this book.

If you like international thrillers with lots of action, spies, double agents, horrific people that personally want to change the world for their own ends, etc., this is certainly a book for you. Plenty of action involving oil production, nuclear production, and a chance for some power hungry monster to take control of our world are the hallmarks of this book. This is a powerful book that makes you wonder who is really running our countries. If there is any truth to the message in these books, it should scare us all to death. With an ending that allows for yet another book in this series, I look forward to it, or perhaps our author will allow Dr. Ransom to spend some time caring for his patients at his Doctors Without Borders assignment and hopefully let him get rested up a bit. I really enjoyed reading these two books, but when I finished them, I was ready for a more restful book to read and a nap myself.

Fast-paced thriller, real surprise ending,

By Woody (Vermont) -

  

This review is from: Rules of Vengeance (Hardcover)

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Just when I thought it would be difficult to match the twists and turns of the first Jonathan and Emma Ransom novel (Rules of Deception), along comes Rules of Vengeance. Although I sometimes had difficulty keeping track of the myriad characters in this story, the plot was tense and tight and the ending came as a real surprise to me.

In a nutshell but without revealing too many plot details, Doctors Without Borders surgeon Jonathan Ransom discovers in the first book that his wife Emma is not who she seems to be. In the end, she leaves to continue her secret life. At the start of Rules of Vengeance, Jonathan goes to London as an invited speaker at an international medical conference. There he encounters Emma once again, only to watch her bomb a motorcade carrying a Russian dignitary–thereby triggering a wild, fast-paced romp across Europe.

The plot holds together well, including explanation at the very end of one small anomaly I noted early in the book. The characters and their motivations are mostly plausible, although I must admit that Jonathan’s blind devotion to the wife who has deceived him once already strained credulity a little.

All in all, an excellent summer/beach read….

Great summertime read, with a suspension of reality,

By CRP Ag (Texas) -

  

This review is from: Rules of Vengeance (Hardcover)

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This was my first Reich novel, and I found it to be an excellent read. Dr. Jonathan Ransom is the ultimate “good guy” working for Doctors Without Borders. He is a surgeon who has been all over the world plying his craft, not for wealth or fame, but simple for the saisfaction of having helped people.

Again, this was my first Reich novel, but we are introduced to Dr. Ransom’s wife, Emma, who in his previous books was revealed to both the reader, and more importantly, to Dr. Ransom, as a spy, is alive and kicking in this book. Dr. Ransom has not seen Emma for some time, but he is invited to be the keynote speaker at a major event in London. He has no idea, but Emma is pulling the strings to get him there, so she can see him, and perhaps for other reasons as well.

This book had almost no end to the twists and turns, shifting and concealed loyalties. The action is non stop. This book is very accurately described as a page turner.

My only issues with the book are (1) one must believe that Dr. Ransom is somehow capable of levels of tradecraft and escape and evasion that the best spy ever produced by the CIA or anyone else would be proud. Seriously, the author makes some effort to explain some escapes as having a bit of luck, but overall, the idea that an untrained medical doctor could evade most of Europe’s police and security forces for an extended period of time is rather unlikely.

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My second quible is with Emma. Her character I guess is supposed to be an example of good people do bad things to further “good” causes, but I found her character singularly unattractive, and didn’t understand Dr. Ransom’s willingness to do anything to find her, to be with her.

However, this was a minor quibble, really, and overall the book was very enjoyable.
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