An earthquake hits a small Italian town in the middle of the night. The next morning Amy Smith, a British journalist, is missing. Sal Smith gets ready to fly out to find his wife, only to get the call that her body has been found in the rubble. So now his concern is to bring her back home for burial. But in Italy he finds that the story she was following demands his attention. And a text message suggests that maybe Amy wasn't killed in the earthquake at all.
Thomas Wymark is a psychological, mystery and suspense thriller writer. Born in London, now living near Brighton. Author of stand-alone novels, short stories and the Sal Smith thriller series.
I liked this book very much. It requires suspension of disbelief at times to believe that a photographer, regardless of his previous life experience, could do all this one did...take out six or more men trying to kill him while suffering blood loss from a serious dog bite, and other superhuman feats. It just doesn't add up, but the story is good enough that I will give the author that!
The only real criticism that I have should have been caught by a proofreader: the repeated use of it's for the possessive (its). The apostrophe in this case is a substitute for the letter I, as in "it is." The possessive of it is its without an apostrophe. The other thing that bothered this former proofreader was the use of the word principle in place of principal. A school has a principal (as one enthusiastic teacher taught me, "the principal is your PAL!"). A principle is a fundamental truth or basis of something.
But all in all, a good book of suspense. I will read more from this author.