Crikey! With bodysnatching in the prologue and an assasination in the early pages of the first chapter, Lock Down hints from the start of the roller coaster ride ahead. Fasten your safety belts - Sean Black's debut novel Lock Down is an action filled thriller. So much so, I felt I was watching a movie rather than reading a book.
I have to confess, the thriller genre is not my favourite one, and though this book has a few 'faults' in my eyes, I did finish it in two sessions - a little dizzy admittedly - but it was a good pacy read. Lovers of the genre will lap it up.
Black's main character, Ryan Lock, (a hybrid of John Mc Clane of Die Hard fame and Jack Bauer of 24 fame) is ex military, now head of security for a pharmaceutical company, Meditech. Topical matters like pharmaceutical research, animal rights, kidnapping, family disfunction are I feel, in the first half of the novel, covered well. It's the second half where I felt the plot veered towards the unreal... Without offering spoilers, we're introduced to a horrific female Chechen rebel, a terrorist threat with the ebola virus, and a lunatic battling for family supremacy. As I said, just a little dizzying?
So, what I didn't like was plots fighting plots for position on the grid. I also felt that at present, Lock is a little predictable, not quite cliched, but not far off. The novel's characters in general took second place to the plot and as such lacked development for me as a reader. This is something though, that I'm sure will improve through Black's continuing series featuring his hero, Lock.
What I did like -and what will make me buy the next book in Black's series on release - is the fact that he writes short, pacy chapters and realistic snappy dialogue with laugh out loud one liners (no doubt aided by his previous experience as a successful scriptwriter). For me, he does this so well that any plot dislikes became secondary.
And lets fact it. The action packed plot, even if it is a little flawed, is a film maker's wet dream. I predict a long happy future for Mr Black. Mr Lock will be donning our screens before too long and when he does - keep the one liners? Cast him well (Johnny Depp? Aidan Quinn?) and fulfill Ty's (Lock's sidekick) potential by finding an actor as gorgeous as the book makes him sound!
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And lets fact it. The action packed plot, even if it is a little flawed, is a film maker's wet dream. I predict a long happy future for Mr Black. Mr Lock will be donning our screens before too long and when he does - keep the one liners? Cast him well (Johnny Depp? Aidan Quinn?) and fulfill Ty's (Lock's sidekick) potential by finding an actor as gorgeous as the book makes him sound!
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