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As I have said I have liked a lot of them, but as I posted in another thread ARCHANGEL is probably my favourite. Now I did find this one difficult to get into, in fact I gave up on it once, but a work colleague suggested it was worth a second try. I'm very glad I took his advice, very heart-warming and emotional experience. Written some time ago, 1982 in fact, but available on Amazon. Colin

I'm probably not very objective when it comes to this author, for me he can do no wrong. But, I don't think The Collaborator is one of his most readable. Colin

Personally, of course, I thought the second was the best of the trilogy. In the first the author hadn't fully developed the characters,the third was under-edited and therefore too long. Colin

..........only a bit irritating!

What's the consensus of opinion of Vince Flynn as an author? I'm reading one of his for the first time, TRANSFER OF POWER. I'm up to page 114 and I'm exhausted, does the pace slow down at all?

Thank you!

I've noticed that people are often asking for suggestions for books similar to one they have just read. I use the link below and it may be of some use to someone. http://www.lovereading.co.uk/login.php?fwd=/authorrec Colin

I've had a further think about this and I would like to mention Gerald Seymour's ARCHANGEL, written in 1982. Not sure it's my all-time favourite but it is a very good read.

I am a very new contributor to this forum and I must apologise if this subject has been done to death on here before. I am always amazed by the way people's opinion of a book can vary so much. I am an avid reader and always on the look-out for a 'new' author and use Amazon reviews to get an idea of the quality of a writer. How can the same book be thought by someone to be "the best thriller I've evr read" and by someone else as being "awful- don't waste your money. The success and popularity of authors such as Jeffrey Archer, James Paterson and to a lesser extent Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code did educate me to some extent, the religious part of it) mystifies me. PS.............how do you edit a post on this forum, just noticed a typo or three?

Almost an impossible question to answer, in my opinion. There are sub-genres within the genre. My first experience with the detection stories was Sherlock Holmes, the short stories were the subject for study in one year in my grammar school. I enjoyed them so much I used to get up early to read them before going off to school. My elder sister was a big Agatha Christie fan and I used to read her books when she had finished with them (I remember reading one in one sitting, think it was WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS}. I thought Poirot was a wonderful character. I then moved on to authors such as Alastair MacLean, I thought THE GUNS OF NAVARONE was an excellent book at the time and is one of the few books in this genre that I have re-read. Now I like to read police procedurals, courtroom thrillers, political conspiracy type books. Tastes change and a book you once thought highly of, if re-read now might diaappoint.

It's a long, long time since I've read an Agatha Christie, read a lot of them in my teens, about 50 years ago but I will always remember THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD. It has a very unusual plot twist. You'll have to read it to find out! :wink: