The Best Revenge
Gerald Seymour
Having read it
★★★★☆
A thoroughly decent read with interesting characters and motives and despite the seemingly plodding nature of its opening chapters (which may have been more an issue with the reader(!) of them rather than the author’s writing skills and possibly even deliberate method of showing the plodding world of espionage and its practitioners and their craft – especially the lead character’s and whose name adorns this fourth book in a series of four!) that created and wove a believable and contemporary world for a story that had plenty of intrigue, a little surprise and masterful plotting that makes you just want to find out how it all works out.
A good passage
It was unnecessary, a minor act of vandalism, but the bags of defrosted peas were taken from the fridge, opened and tipped over the side, and by first light, when they should have been far out to sea, their boat would be surrounded by a green and bobbing carpet, and nothing else to show for their cancelled part in a high-stake drama.
‘Been fun.’
‘A laugh a minute.’
‘Did anyone get hurt?’
‘We didn’t, so who cares.’