KINGFISHER

This is a thriller that doesn't seem too thrilling because the listener simply expects everything to turn out badly. What else could happen in a novel about Jewish youth highjacking a plane out of Russia? Nigel Graham reads this long narration with few accents or changes of pitch. One should probably feel sympathy for the job he has of recreating these young people, simply to have them killed off before the listener can decide whether they're heroes or terrorists. B.H.B. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine [Published: FEB/MAR 01]