Sunday, April 11, 2010

Corpse in Armor - A Review

Wikipedia’s definition of the thriller genre includes this desciption.

Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more powerful and better equipped villains.

Based on Wikipedia’s definition of a thriller, Martin McPhillips’ counterterrorism thriller, Corpse in Armor, perfectly fits the bill, literally sprinting into action, and the reader should be prepared to continue sprinting until the conclusion of McPhillips’ contribution to the genre, as the action in the book is so frequent, and so fast paced, the reader may find themselves snatching sleep as infrequently as Mara Rains, Ryan, Yael and The General.

Corpse in Armor immediately plunges readers; as unprepared and seemingly removed from the threat of terrorism as the character Mara Rains; into the banality and close proximity of those individuals who mean to do America wrong.  And, if readers feel that right and wrong are veiled by a mist, McPhillips’ characters will clear away the mist as rapidly as a M16 on full auto clears a magazine.

If readers are wont to learn from individuals and the situations they encounter, even if they are only characters from an individual’s mind, the resourceful hero characters in McPhillips’ Corpse in Armor are excellent teachers, even though their lessons challenge, but if left unlearned, this ignorance may lead to their demise.

Readers into the thriller genre will not be dissappointed by Corpse in Armor.  In fact, they may find themselves desiring that they did not have to sleep on a regular basis.

McPhillips’ thriller has its own blog, named Corpse in Armor, naturally.

FULL DISCLOSURE.  I have exchanged emails with Martin McPhillips on one (1) occasion, when I noted he added my website to his blogroll.  I have never met Martin in person, though I definitely would not be averse to this.

Posted by John Venlet on 04/11 at 11:43 AM
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