I really can't make up my mind whether this is a piece of genius writing or just too much navel gazing from a psychotic mind.
Michael has lost his wife in a terrorist attack and is FULL of anger. He is seeing a therapist, Angela, to try and come to terms with the event but is increasingly determined that someone needs to pay for what's happened. He doesn't actually "blame" the terrorist but has gone further up the chain to the politician whose foreign policies have caused such atrocities to take place in the first instance.
We flit between the present day and the past, all the while examining his relationship with his father and daughter and looking back on his days as the headmaster of a boy's school (where some of his disciplinary methods were decidedly "dodgy").
As he anger becomes more focussed he acquires a new friend, Frank, and an unhealthy interest in guns. He has an undoubtedly brilliant mind and the time in which to fully plan a murderous revenge. After the sometime rambling nature of the book it comes to a surprisingly abrupt and shocking ending which just left me feeling a bit "eh?".
I also really hated the fact that there were no page numbers!
Michael has lost his wife in a terrorist attack and is FULL of anger. He is seeing a therapist, Angela, to try and come to terms with the event but is increasingly determined that someone needs to pay for what's happened. He doesn't actually "blame" the terrorist but has gone further up the chain to the politician whose foreign policies have caused such atrocities to take place in the first instance.
We flit between the present day and the past, all the while examining his relationship with his father and daughter and looking back on his days as the headmaster of a boy's school (where some of his disciplinary methods were decidedly "dodgy").
As he anger becomes more focussed he acquires a new friend, Frank, and an unhealthy interest in guns. He has an undoubtedly brilliant mind and the time in which to fully plan a murderous revenge. After the sometime rambling nature of the book it comes to a surprisingly abrupt and shocking ending which just left me feeling a bit "eh?".
I also really hated the fact that there were no page numbers!