Pray that you don't end up a "good guy" in a Nance thriller!

Who finally survives Nance's morbid predations? Actually, I don't know. I read about two-thirds of this book, then gave it up. The story is good. Nance is a good writer: he keeps you interested. However, I have one really major problem with Nance's writing style: he kills off his protagonists with gusto!

At first, I thought this was really novel and great. Kind of like ultra-hard realism that points out that even good guys lose sometimes. The book starts out relating the account of one guy who could stop a terrible air disaster from occuring, but arrives a half-second too late and is killed along with his family and a plane full of innocents. OK, yes, that is shocking, but it happens. But with Nance, it keeps happening. Over and over and over. He develops a character for you to relate to and sympathize with, then kills that character off in some horrific and often pointless manner. One begins to wonder whether Mr. Nance has some repressed homicidal slasher tendencies.

If this doesn't bother you, then I could recommend this book. In most other respects, it is a good thriller. But if you prefer your good guys alive at the end of the book (or even just ten pages after they are introduced!), avoid this one like the plague.