Murder On High by George Kennedy
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

I followed reading the first George Kennedy book, ‘Murder on Location’, with his second book, ‘Murder on High’. Both supposedly handled by, or with, a ghost writer. Again, I feel Kennedy was more involved than not with this volume, too.

However, after the slew of bad writing in the first book, I cannot forgive repeating the same from the first and making it all worse. Best to see my review of the first book.

Here, again, are first person writing problems, believing – even more – what is said, murders ending chapters, etc. Worse nearly the entire book is trapped in an airplane, so at least some inside should be expressing panic of being trapped in a plane with a killer with a gun. There’s also the issue of a gun being repeatedly fired with a silencer and never a problem of bullet passing through individual and piercing plane or concern of such occasion.

This is all pretty awful and ending that is preposterous with non-stop gabbing bad guys explaining the whys and wherefores. Maybe if they had done that to each person about to be murdered, the intended victims could have gotten away.

Characters are mostly detailed. Again, real actors are best depicted, especially Jimmy and Gloria Stuart, indicating Kennedy’s involvement. Setting is nearly non-existent. Huge exception is observation by first person George that is dead on accurate: Why do mid-east countries keep money from the people and pour all they have into airports???? Included is observing the vast difference to U.S. airports and mid-east airports.

Bottom line: I do not recommend this book. 2 out of 10 points.

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