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Baptism
Written by Max Kinnings
Narrated by David Bauckham
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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07:45am. A monk lies dead in Snowdonia, a knife protruding from his throat. The mission has begun.
08:56am. A London Underground train is stationary in a tunnel, four hundred passengers trapped inside.
09:15am. DCI Ed Mallory has just started his day. The Met's top hostage negotiator - despite having been blinded thirteen years earlier - Mallory is about to discover that, today, an underground train is not the only thing on the line.
08:56am. A London Underground train is stationary in a tunnel, four hundred passengers trapped inside.
09:15am. DCI Ed Mallory has just started his day. The Met's top hostage negotiator - despite having been blinded thirteen years earlier - Mallory is about to discover that, today, an underground train is not the only thing on the line.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Baptism by Max Kinnings is an up-to-the-minute hostage thriller, detailing the ‘high jacking’ of a London Underground train on the hottest day of the year. It’s an action thriller, face-paced, exciting and, at times, gripping. I admired what felt like a genuine attempt to do something different with the madcap terrorists plunging innocent people into terrifying jeopardy plot, and it was an easy, if somewhat two dimensional, read. The plot, although relatively thin, moves at a rapid pace with the story told over just a few hours, and I couldn’t help but be sucked in.
The hero is hostage negotiator Ed Mallory, who having been blinded by an earlier situation, uses his enhanced senses to both communicate and understand those who he comes into contact with. Mallory was an interesting character and Kinnings portrays him in an original and non-clichéd way. It was a shame that most of the other characters were pretty cardboard. This extends to the terrorists in particular, who even allowing for the fact that it’s hard for most of us understand the motivations of terrorists, their central driving force is not convincing. Like many fiction writers, Kinnings confuses mental illness/madness with straightforward badness. The terrorists’ success in executing their outrageous plan, with barely a hitch, evidenced of well systematised ‘delusions’ doesn’t sit with the explanation that they’re religious maniacs. Perhaps I’m being very nit-picky here, but I wanted the story to convince me; as it was, I couldn’t get over this central implausibility.
Still, overall it’s a good book, and the author deserves four stars for trying to do something different with a largely tired formula. There’s rumour that the book’s been optioned for a film, but unless the screenwriter adds some other plot elements, it’s likely to be a fairly predictable action adventure romp.
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