Adrian Magson

Clare Jardine has been shot and is recovering in hospital and soon finds out that someone is still trying to take her out. Harry Tate is ordered too track her down. I appreciate the idea behind this story but struggled to get past the first few pages since the reader is bombarded with Russian names and prior events that a first-time reader are not privy to. The author makes an effort to clue in the reader but I consistently found myself wondering at the connection between the multitude of characters. While this was not my cup of tea, I found the author to provide a competent plot.… (more)

I dunno. Somehow it seems to me that putting a story in a real place, even if it is a place most people don't know, obliges the author to at least try to make the setting at least somewhat realistic. Putting the story in the past does not get the author off the hook. I happened to have spent several months in Georgia this year and in several of the Former Soviet States at the time when the story is set, and it Red Station does not even come close. Clearly Mr. Magson spent no time in the USSR or the FSS and if he has visited Georgia, it might have been the one north of Florida.

The plot line is telegraphed early on and doesn't seem to me to be realistic.

So the question to you, dear reader, is whether you can push aside the above in order to read a fast-paced thriller. I could not.

I received a review copy of " Red Station" by Adrian Magson from publishers Black Thorn through NetGalley.com.… (more)