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Drummer in the Dark (Marcus Glenwood Series #2)
This book gets off to a slow start, taking a bit too long to let us in on what's going on, but once it gets going, it's not bad.Wynn Bryant is a man of means who obviously travels in better circles than I do, since at a mere suggestion from his sister, he becomes an interim Congressman. He wanders around DC without a clue until he gets dragged on a journey to Rome and Cairo, and gets pulled into some hefty intrigue.Jackie Burke is a windsurfer with a crappy job who suddenly gets hired by the wife of the ill Congressman whose place Wynn takes. Jackie realizes something big is afoot when the investigation she has been hired to undertake gets her apartment broken into and trashed. She meets Wynn and feels an instant attraction and kinship when they go to Rome, though most of their relationship throughout the rest of the book happens over the telephone.Behind all the aforementioned intrigue is financier Pavel Hayek, a billionaire maverick who moved his foreign exchange trading business to Florida from Wall Street. As the author took so much time carefully constructing the plot, it seems unfair to give it away here. Suffice it to say, Hayek is a very bad man with some very big, very bad plans, and it's up to Wynn and Jackie to figure out what they are and stop him.Once things got moving, it was a fairly compelling read. It was hard to get a fix on Wynn's character, aside from the fact that he had a painful past and a lot of money to blow. The other characters, save one or two, didn't go very deep, either. Jackie was likeable, though. Things wrapped up a little too neatly with a pretty bow on top, and the author relied too heavily on leaving everyone out of the loop-the protagonists and the reader-but getting there managed to keep my interest. All in all, not a bad financial/political thriller.
Drummer in the Dark (Marcus Glenwood Series #2)
The protagonist is Wynn Bryant, past owner of a high-tech business, who has no one in the world except his sister who is married to Senator Grant Wells.Senator Graham Hutchings had been pushing for a bill dubbed the Jubiliee bill. It was aimed at curbing and controlling the big time hedge fund operators who played with economies like one plays with dominoes. Then Hutchings has a stroke leaving his seat empty. Elections are in the offing. Grant Wells is Hutchings' political opponent and is totally against the Jubilee bill. Seizing the opportunity, Grant pushes Wynn to run in the elections. At his sister's recommendation, Wynn reluctantly accepts and soon becomes a cog in the wheel of Washington DC.But Wynn doesn't turn out to be the puppet that Grant expects him to be. Before opposing the Jubilee bill as per his brother in law's instructions, he starts digging into its details and backgrounds. This leads him from Washington to Cairo and back, with many revelations on the way. In his diggings, he comes across Jackie, a private detective who has been hired by the wife of Graham Hutchings to hedge fund scams. Both of them are lonely for company and a mutual attraction develops between the two. Together, they cross the path of Pavel Hayek, the biggest of the big hedge fund operators - a ruthless man who would let nothing stand in his way.The novel is a page turner, zipping its way from start to finish at breathtaking pace. It is full of interesting characters and situations. I wish T. Davis Bunn had spent a little more time (even at the expense of slowing down the narrative) to educate readers like me (who are ignorant of commerce, economics, the workings of the wall street, etc.) a bit more about hedge funds. Not knowing the significance of the one of the key elements of the story reduces suspension of disbelief. Other than that, as said above, it is a great read. Recommended.[...]
Drummer in the Dark (Marcus Glenwood Series #2)
I have really enjoyed most of Davis Bunn's books. But this one was too convoluted to follow. He had too many characters, who often said and did things that people do not actually say or do. Try his other books, though, they are mostly wonderful!
Drummer in the Dark (Marcus Glenwood Series #2)
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, as I do most of Bunn's books. He really makes you feel like he has been there, done that.
Drummer in the Dark (Marcus Glenwood Series #2)
I was expecting another Marcus Glenwood book following "The Great Divide" but this was not # 2 as advertised. However, it was thoroughly enjoyable, even 'though I was 'out of my depth' a little with 'Hedge funds' etc., Again, I must add that as all of T.Davis Bunn's books are SUCH good reading, this was another one that I had difficulty putting down !!
Drummer in the Dark (Marcus Glenwood Series #2)
a hard-hitting story that packs a punch, t davis bunn certainly delivers in this fast-paced political thriller