The President’s Assassin by Brian Haig
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This story had a promising start for me. I liked the beginning and the humor knitted in the text. However as the book wore on, the endless meetings depicted and the constant reports of action that had already occurred began to wear on me. It would have been a better story if the narration had been brought to the action than more than three quarters of the book reflecting on it. It was almost like a series of flashbacks. As much as I love humor and sarcasm, even Haig’s leaning on it became to much for me. I kinda figured from the start who the bad guy was, which made it even tougher to get through the 500 pages. Another recent book needing severe editing is what is the bottom line…again!

The sarcastic hero reminded me a lot of Stuart Kaminky’s Toby Peters and Kaminsky’s writing & plotting in general. I would guess Haig is a Kaminsky fan. So, Toby Peters is my next stop.

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