Final Play, Don Pendleton

Any body that has read more than two or three SciFi or Fantasy novels has picked up and started reading a book in the middle of a series or trilogy. After all there have only been fourteen standalone SciFi novels published since 1957 and Fantasy is even worse.  So if your picking a book at random you’ve only got a one in four chance of picking up the first book in a series. Well the other day at the The Great Escape I picked up volumes #298, #299, #301, #302, #303 and #304 of Pendleton’s Executioner series. Obviously I knew I was picking up in the middle of the series, but wouldn’t you know it that #298 is the third book of a trilogy embedded in the series.

Maybe that’s why I didn’t like it to much. I barged through 75% of it in one night and it took another two weeks to finish it off. I was expecting some rough and ready pulp style action, what I got was a bunch of people talking on cell phones and downloading dossiers, punctuated by an explosion or two.  I’ll give the other five a chance, they are quick reads if you can stay focused, because I so want to like this series.

Why you ask. Because there are over three hundred of them, that’s why. I’m still not over the heartbreak of discovering Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey and Maturin books after reading George Will’s obituary of O’Brian. Not the best way to find out about an author.

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