Jeff Abbott’s novel Fear [ISBN 978 0 7515 3832 8] kept me on the edge of my seat. Not that the parts of it were particularly notable – a pretty complex and often clunky plot (based on the old amnesia ploy), and some weirdish characters (though nowadays American characterisations can seem more and more foreign when compared to European novelists) but the narrative is well planned and pacy,
Jeff Abbott’s novel Fear [ISBN 978 0 7515 3832 8] kept me on the edge of my seat. Not that the parts of it were particularly notable – a pretty complex and often clunky plot (based on the old amnesia ploy), and some weirdish characters (though nowadays American characterisations can seem more and more foreign when compared to European novelists) but the narrative is well planned and pacy,
Miles Kendrick is on the witness protection programme, being hidden away from the mob until he can testify, and is currently working with his psychiatrist trying to remember the night his friend was killed. But then his psychiatrist is blown up when her office has a bomb set in it – and Miles sets himself to try to find out why this happened . He finds it is connected to the trial of a new drug to help Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, and had then to work out who is involved in killing people.
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