Saturday, February 23, 2013

The Bricklayer by Noah Boyd


The Bricklayer by Noah Boyd

This was the book I read this week. It starts out with a mixture of suspense and action ,
The sentence inside the front cover says it all-
Someone gives you a dangerous puzzle to solve, one that may kill you or someone else and You're about to fail...And there is no other option. No one can help. No one but the Bricklayer.
The bricklayer turns out to be Steven Vail, an ex FBI agent turned bricklayer who has been fired by the service because he couldn't work in the tight restrictions of the bureaucracy. The FBI faced with a huge seemingly insolvable puzzle involving a lot of money end up by calling him back in to figure it all out and not get killed off while he is at it. It reads like a complicated action Bond novel and if you like these kind of very complicated and somewhat unbelievable ,fast paced, mystery novels it will appeal to you.
I found the first half of the book good and gripping but then it get unbelievable and I almost gave up on it. Then the story revs up when a main character gets kidnapped and you are hooked again trying to see if it all get solved. Well it does but I never guess the endings to these mysteries before I read the very last chapter and word. And yes there is a romantic slant with a beautiful FBI lady
I think it would make an excellent movie.

Published 2010 by Harper Collins  PUB.
ISBN 978-0-06-182701-3  Fiction

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