• Paperback: 364 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (18 Sept. 2014)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1502379945
• ISBN-13: 978-1502379948

My Review

This approach to reading this book was completely off albeit accidental. I set it down at about a 1/3 in and didn’t come back to it straight off, I think there was about a week between lifting it again. Had I read it all at once I would have adored it and been completely sucked in. The first section that I read was still just introducing the characters along with the story line so, naturally, when I came back I had to go back a couple of chapters to refresh my memory. Anyways…..that is by the by and the reason I am telling you is because I advise that if you are going to read this then don’t leave too long a period before coming back to it like I did.

An author, Nic Stiles, receives a pen however it comes with a mysterious box attached. Now we all know that when something in a book has its concept adjusted there is something going to go wrong somewhere along the line. With the pen, there is a letter which happens to be from a known murderer, enter the ‘Dun dun DUN!!’

Robert Polanski, a mass murderer who is ‘Teflon coated’, forwarded his pen on to an author and has decided he wants it back. This leads to Nic Stiles meeting someone he had never met before, even though they work for the same publisher, Grayson Fallon who is also a thriller writer but they have been portrayed in the media as rivals thanks to the publishers. They end up working together trying to get to the bottom of the pen and its attributes. A theoretical physicist tries to help them understand why and how the pen does what it does.

Thanks to Polanski, the ‘device’ (the name the pen is known by) is being chased by the government and they send in Major Mason. She is an amazing character and thanks to her we have a lot of action.

The last 1/3 or so of the book is very high paced and had me holding my breath quite a bit! The chapters are very short and, in turn, you don’t have a lot of time to have your thoughts move on before something else is sprung on you.

This is a story that makes you need to think as there is a lot of theoretical ideas in the storyline along with twists and turns. We have, as a result of this pen, a touch of the sci-fi brought into a thriller. I felt that this book could be very well be turned into a film given the pace it went and the intensity of the storyline. Gates is clearly a very intelligent man and knows exactly how to write his characters to love even who you should hate.

I will definitely be reading this book again, only not how I read it this time. I will sit down and try to absorb it all in a shorter period of time. I give this a 4.5* rating!

I received my copy of this ebook to review for Whispering Stories 

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Genre Thriller, Suspense, Mystery