Die Twice: A David Trevellyan Novel Audiobook

" Weak plot. "

" a worthy follow-up to an increasingly appealing character "

" It wasn't a good start that I couldn't EVEN remember a single plot point from Andrew Grant's first novel featuring Royal Navy Intelligence op David Trevellyan. This second adventure has been even less memorable. In fact, what plot there is here seems silly--too silly for a James Bond movie, which Grant seems desperate to imitate. His device of opening each new chapter with the hero's reflections about his days in training or a nugget of wisdom gleaned from a previous assignment--well, it got tiresome. Just for fun, I kept a running body count and ended up with 12 corpses produced by Trevelyan and another five attributed to the supposedly clever traitor in the story, the guy who deserves to DIE TWICE ("killing him once just isn't enough"). My next, unexpected, reaction was total indignation. What the frak is the Royal Navy doing littering the Chicago area with dead people and not even informing Homeland Security about their lamebrained mission?!! Okay, Grant is writing about a counter-intelligence world where just about anyone can be "surplus to needs," but it's a tough sell having a hero as bang-bang mechanical and dull as Commander Trevellyan. He, truly, has "no remorse--none at all." His decisions aren't moral or patriotic ones, they're "just another example of cost versus benefit." Little brother of Jim Grant (a.k.a. "Lee Child") or not, I'm not cutting the guy enough slack to read another installment... "

" I like this character. More to follow I hope. I did sort of suspect who the perp was before being revealed. "

" I knew who the bad guy was pretty quickly, but still enjoyed the book. And it's set in Chicago. So a positive. "

" Great follow up to Andrew Grant's first book, 'Even'. I really enjoyed it, though at times it seemed long winded. I'll definitely keep my eyes open for his next book. "

" It was enjoyable story. My only concern with it was that it felt like I reading a two person play. Despite this the David Trevellyan is a very charismatic character. Will definitely read his next adventure. "

" Took awhile to read it - and could easily pick it up again. Page turner the last quarter of the book! "

" Still good, but a little predictable. Took too long for the hero to figure out what was going on, I had it halfway through the book. His first book, Even, was much better. "

" Book #2 was even better than "Even." This is another fast read from Childs' brother Grant. The story is tight, somewhat predictable, fast-moving and overall quite good. "

" Disappointing after the first. "

" Read and enjoyed Grant's first novel and was expecting to like this one. I had identified the bad guy fairly earlier on (which doesn't happen to often for me) and finished the book to know the particulars. I am hoping the next one in this series is better. "

" It became a little too obvious who the bad guy was by about halfway through the book, so the latter half was a lot of fluff. Not nearly up to par with the noirish and well-executed plot of the previous novel, "Even." "

" ok thriller but nothing to writr home about "

" 3.50 stars. Pretty good. "

" It has no flow, and I'm not a fan of books told in first person. All in all not worth your time. "

" A decent read...maybe it should be four stars?I mean, i enjoyed it enough to buy his other book to get the backstory :-) "

" Not as good as the first one. I thought the plot and storyline were a bit boring for most of the book. But, I will read the third installment. "

" The character is more interesting than the plot. Figured out the real bad guy half-way through. Finished the book mostly to see if I was right. I was. "

" Not bad, not great. I really enjoyed the first book more so than this one, but it was well written and entertaing. "

" Lee Childs' brother writes a pretty good thriller. "