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 The Fire Baby - Jim Kelly
Newest Review: ... American military base crash lands on the farm killing everyone on board and the people in the house. That is until a woman ... more  ... stumbles out carrying a child from the plane. In the present day this women is on her death bad and reveals to local reporter Philip Dryden a secret that will lead to some very modern murders, pornography and illegal immigrants.
This is the second novel about Dryden that I have read so I knew what I was in for. Jim Kelly seems to specialise in crimes from the past effecting the present and this is the case once again here. Therefore, Dryden finds himself not only looking into the real events behind a 20 year old ...more |
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The Fire Baby - Jim Kelly: Burn, Baby, Burn - Story Inferno (732 words)
by - written on 14/07/08 (Very useful, 67 readings)
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Balancing threads of a story can be a complex game for an author. Great writing and characters can be easily undermined by a confused plot or messy narrative. This is even truer if you take the bold step of having multiple storylines running parallel to one another. The secret is to keep these stories as essentially separate elements only coming together on occasion for dramatic effect. One book in which this is done well is Don Winslow's excellent 'Power of the Dog', he managed to set a book over two decades with other five main characters and make each page a joy to read. The latest author I have read to take on a similar (but easier) challenge is Jim Kelly in ... Read the complete review
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