London. Rush Hour.
Seven people started their day thinking it was going to be what they knew.
What they did not know was that they would never get to work.
Seven seemingly random people stabbed.
What connected them all?
Famie Madden, journalist watches the terror unfold. But there is a familiarity to some of those killed and it seems that what links them all can also be linked to Famie.
Is the danger over or is Famie potentially the next victim.
If ever a book was relevant, was of its time, it is this book.
You are immediately throw into the action and you are carried along on a wave of adrenaline which inevitably peters out. But that is probably a good thing as you start to slow down and look around to what is really going on just as Famie and other investigative journalists start to pick up the pieces put them together and can see the inevitably of the next point of danger.
The pace picks up and does not stop until the conclusion, it is almost a race to get there, but draws everything to a conclusion.
I found I needed to concentrate on all the references to terror groups from the past which were throughout the book, some passages for me needed some rereading just so I could get to understand the purpose.
Terrorism can take many guises and it was a interesting concept to pick something so unsophisticated as using a plan that was “off grid”, coded advertisements in newspapers, messages in invisible ink, no phones, nothing of the modern day technology we all know. This made it particularly appealing when in reality this books is probably a reflection on modern day life.
An interesting thriller that starts well, sort of wobbles a bit in the middle but reaches a rather interesting climax which will set the heart racing right until the end.
Thank you to the publisher via netgalley for the opportunity to read this boo.
Knife Edge is published on 20 August.
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