Book: The Greenland Breach by Bernard Besson with translations by Julie Rose
Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review
Publication: Available now
Description:
What is really at stake with global warming?
The Arctic ice caps are breaking up. Europe and the East Coast of the Unites States brace for a tidal wave. Meanwhile, former French intelligence officer John Spencer Larivière, his karate-trained, steamy Eurasian partner, Victoire, and their computer-genius sidekick, Luc, pick up an ordinary freelance assignment that quickly leads them into the heart of an international conspiracy. Off the coast of Greenland, a ship belonging to the French geological research firm Terre Noire is in serious trouble.
The murder of an important scientist jeopardizes evacuation. On land another killer is roaming the icy peaks after researchers, while a huge crevasse splits Greenland apart. In the glacial silence of the great north, a merciless war is being waged. Global warming and subsequent natural disasters hide international rivalries over discoveries that will change the future of humanity.
Rating: 2 stars
Review:
For a thriller this wasn't exactly the most thrilling book and not even the action could improve this story. But it did have some good action scenes but the plot was just too convoluted to make any sense. The premise had me really interested in reading this but once I started I found myself bored with each page.
The story has the team of John, Victoire and Luc take on a job that has them going up against killers and espionage as the attempt to retrieve a soil sample. I have no idea why the three main characters are even in this business because none of them seem to really know what they're doing. And there was also too many forgettable characters in this story that I just didn't care what was happening to any of them.
Besides being boring, this story was a little confusing and it failed to capture the impending environmental catastrophe.
This just wasn't for me.
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