Steve Sohmer

Having read and enjoyed Patriots by the author I thought I'd also check out Favourite Son, and despite the somewhat bland blurb the story within is actually excellent.

It's a well written political thriller involving an eager and powerful press aide, a hungry senator, a pair of FBI agents, a scheming chief, a president whose barely hanging onto the reins of his party and an assassination of a visiting guerrilla leader.

From the beginning the story is interesting and as events occur you find yourself drawn into the story and trying to work out whose doing what and what their motivations are. It's not till towards the end where the picture begins to clear and even then the ending is great.

Would recommend.… (meer)

Patriots is an interesting novel set over 3 days in 1991; it's about a US President's plan to reduce the number of US soldiers in Europe dramatically and a small group within the US military who opposes such as the country would then be reliant on nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles alone.

It's a little slow to start and the chopping and changing of scenes like a TV show took a little getting used too however once the story warms up and gets going it's quite gripping and uses all of its 574 pages well.… (meer)