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DOUBLE TAP
By Steve Martini
This thriller gets a B. It's good for what it is - not great, but good. I felt satisfied with the read, enjoyed the meat of a 400 page book, but it's nothing to email my girlfriends about.
Double Tap refers to the manner of shooting a victim with two shots placed very close together, a technique employed by the elite military forces of which we learn the lead suspect is a former member. It keeps you reading. The victim was beautiful, wealthy and powerful. The suspect is a former lover. The company involved was behind software the Pentagon might have been abusing. Sound good?
It is. But just good. I'm not sure why it doesn't rise to a higher level of fiction. It may be a hundred pages of courtroom dialogue. I don't care how good you are - "Objection. Sustained" - gets boring after 20 pages. It may be the unlikely revelation at the end. Or it may be the fact that after 400 pages, I still didn't have a feel for the main character. I'm not sure, but it's definitely worth the price of a paperback.
I give a qualified thumbs up for Steve Martini's latest bestseller, Double Tap. On the Book Beat for KSL Newsradio, I'm Amanda Dickson.
