Wednesday 11 July 2012

Book 75, Country 81 - Canada


No Cry for Help – Grant McKenzie – first published in the UK in 2010

The wife and 2 young sons of Canadian bus driver Wallace Carver vanish from a shopping mall in the USA.  The police suspect him but he is innocent and has no idea why they have been taken.  Wallace is determined to get them back and he enlists the help of a friend and his friend’s relatives.  The book is a real page-turner and the pace rarely lets up.  However I thought the plot was a bit thin and unbelievable.  There is quite a lots of violence and several people come to various sticky ends at the hands of each other and Wallace and his friends.  I found it hard to believe that an ordinary law abiding citizen would have had the skills and mental and physical strength to survive all the events in the book.  6/10

9th July 2012

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