I'm not the biggest fan of political thrillers, but I made 2021 the year of trying new things, and that also extended to genres of books I had either dismissed a few years ago or never really go in to in the first place.
I'm sure everyone is at least somewhat vaguely aware of Robert Peston and I found it surprising that he'd written a book: unsurprised was I about the topic. But as the old adage goes, "write what you know about" and there is no doubt that Peston knows about Politics and all of the seedy little ins and outs within.
It is very readable: a fast-paced political thriller with a likeable protagonist in Gilbert Peck. Some of the other characters may well be a little more familiar than I would have liked, but they all seemed nicely fleshed out and obviously written by someone who has been engrossed in British politics for many decades.
I never truly got on with the plot as honestly politics bores the living flesh off my bones, but I was very much involved throughout the entire read. It had slow moments and boring moments, but isn't that politics anyway? I found it to be a pretty nice debut in a genre I don't really enjoy, but it has allowed me to rethink what I'll read next.
I'm sure everyone is at least somewhat vaguely aware of Robert Peston and I found it surprising that he'd written a book: unsurprised was I about the topic. But as the old adage goes, "write what you know about" and there is no doubt that Peston knows about Politics and all of the seedy little ins and outs within.
It is very readable: a fast-paced political thriller with a likeable protagonist in Gilbert Peck. Some of the other characters may well be a little more familiar than I would have liked, but they all seemed nicely fleshed out and obviously written by someone who has been engrossed in British politics for many decades.
I never truly got on with the plot as honestly politics bores the living flesh off my bones, but I was very much involved throughout the entire read. It had slow moments and boring moments, but isn't that politics anyway? I found it to be a pretty nice debut in a genre I don't really enjoy, but it has allowed me to rethink what I'll read next.