LOWELL Hawthorne is a depressed 30-something with a lingering sense of terror after his mother was killed by terrorists in a hijacking when he was 16. Perhaps his late father, a spy, knew more about it than he let on?
Samantha Raleigh was on the flight. Now a student, she contacts Lowell in an attempt to uncover what happened. Although very much "of our time" the novel is littered with lumbering symbolism and awkward plot developments.
There is a great thriller waiting to be written about terrorism. This is not it.
Katherine Haddon
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