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his blistering crime debut Seventy Times Seven, actor John Gordon Sinclair returns to the crime fiction scene with his new thriller Blood Whispers, Delving into the murky world of Eastern European gangsters, CIA operatives, and one lawyers fight for justice for her client who is inextricably entangled with both, how does Sinclairs difficult second novel fare

At first the plot is straightforward enough with Glasgow lawyer Keira Lynch trying to protect her client Kaltrina Dervishi, a prostitute on the run from the Serbian gang leader Fisnik Abazi.
Dervishi is the lynchpin in the prosecutions evidence against Abazi, whilst Abazi simply wants Dervishi dead, What Keira doesnt realise is that this is a case with global repercussions and soon the CIA comes calling, If Dervishi talks and Abazi is imprisoned, the Agencys links with Abazi will be exposed, and this information must be protected at any cost,

So far so good in terms of plot, but then Sinclair does something annoying, In order to make his central character a tad more interesting, he gives Keira Lynch a background thats a little too far fetched, It turns out she is living under an assumed identity having killed a man when she was eight years old, This is connected to her fathers involvement with the IRA, Hence, Keira becomes an intense, solitary onewoman justiceseeking missile who, with other aspects of the plot, stretches credibility,

Having attracted the dual attentions of the Serbian crime gang and the CIAs crooked agents, her escape from various moments of peril are a bit contrived.
Following the great pace and genuine excitement of the first third of the book, and even allowing for artistic license, some of the plot devices and the use of coincidences are irksome.
The unconvincing plot is disappointing after the consistent thrills and spills in Sinclairs debut novel, There are few surprises in terms of the hunter versus hunted theme used in many previous thrillers and it doesnt seem like theres anything fresh here,

The characterisation of both Abazi and Keira is a little unconvincing too, However, I found some of the bit players much better defined, Kaltrina Derveshi, the escort at the centre of the criminal conspiracy, is incredibly empathetic, especially in the light of what befalls both her and her family in her role as stool pigeon.
I also rather took to JayGo, the smalltime criminal and addict who is Keiras eyes on the street, A former client of hers, hes hoping to pull off the drug deal of his life with the Serbs, He reminded me very much of Lonely from the classic series Callan, with his loyalty to Keira creating a similar oddball partnership, underlined by his unfailing optimism in achieving that one big score.
I quite liked the understated role of the sinister Serbian hitman who shadows Keiras every move, The dumb and dumber corrupt CIA agents do add a certain frisson to the plot, even if it does feel like its one conspiracy theory too far,

Overall, Blood Whispers is a mixed and ultimately disappointing read after Sinclairs thoroughly enjoyable debut Seventy Times Seven, That difficult second book has perhaps unleashed its curse on him, Hopefully the authors initial promise will be recaptured in his third novel, with a little less reliance on the familiar tropes of the thriller genre, and a more credible plotline.

Blood Whispers Its Bloody Good!

John Gordon Sinclair has always been to me an actor of some substance who was in Gregorys Girl and Hot Metal in thes yes I am old enough to have watched and enjoyed both.
As he has got old his Glasgow burr smoothed out a little and a jobbing actor and like most Brits an on call bad guy for Hollywood movies but I have now learnt that he is a novelist too.
Blood Whispers has all the things an experienced crime thriller reader would expect of any novelist which it delivers in spades with the panache of a Glasgow kiss to finish it off!

Keira Lynch is a criminal defence lawyer in the City of Glasgow with a gaining reputation amongst the criminal fraternity as the best got to lawyer when the chips are down.
She has been appointed the defence lawyer for Kaitrina Dervishi who has knocked out a CIA agent in a hotel where he was her client, At the same time the Serbians want to silence her so she cannot spill the beans on any aspect of their businesses or alliances,

There is an added problem in the mix of trying to keep her client alive and away from the Serbians the CIA have an interest in the case and in stirring the pot of misinformation.
As the bodies are dropping all over Glasgow the drugs are flowing nobody knows what really is the truth but everybody wants Keira Lynch, She even becomes a target but nobody knows whos target she is and who is telling the truth,

The one thing nobody realised is that Keira Lynch is a survivor with a very big secret of her own and she will kill if she has too if that is what is required to stay alive.
Lynch is like a chess player always keeping things close to her chest and making sure she has planned all her moves ahead,

This is a fast paced and bloody thriller and that keeps the reader wanting more and rooting for Keira Lynch, The Serbians and CIA seem like strange bedfellows but neither could ever lie straight in bed when it comes to it, At times ending life seems so cheap and as anyone will tell you where drugs and prostitution are concerned life is cheap and there are always replacements available.
This really is about the survival of the fittest but who has the intellect to dodge the incoming bullets all meant to be killers,

This is a great crime thriller well worth reading, well researched and the prose makes it so readable you could imagine John Gordon Sinclairs burr reading to you.
Do not dismiss this as another actor who is trying to write, because he can writer and has written a bloody good thriller,

Blood Whispers is a book you just cannot put down and even gives you a sense of loss at the end, You are willing Lynch all the way through and really engages the reader and that alone is an excellent skill in any book, Read this book and you will not be disappointed,
a good readwish il read this before Id read the sequel! The characters didn't always ring true, but this is still a fairly good thriller of its kind, Plenty of forward movement, twists and turns and a few surprises, Almost everybody gets shot at some point, including the heroine, who seems to be indestructible,
I don't think it does any more than it sets out to do, which is to provide a good read for a longish trip, Occasionally I did get confused with the story, it didn't seem that well structured but overall I did actually enjoy it, Really enjoyed this book.
He is an accomplished author amp I can imagine his books getting better and better, Best novel I've read for a while, Interesting and fast paced with well drawn characters but who would have thought that the gawky school boy from Gregory's Girl would grow up to write such a good but sometimes brutal novel Now really looking forward to reading his first book which is reputed to be even better than this one.
A good yarn of a book enjoyed how it draws on mythology from various countries, though knocked off a star because of the inaccuracies of its confusion over which county Newry is in.
Both of this authors books are dreadful, intriguing book , Ull never know what to expect next, I enjoyed this quite insofar as it was entertaining but I don't have a clue what was going on, so convoluted the plot when it wasn't taking mighty, unsignposted leaps and so many the sometimes twicenamed protagonists and so high the body count nor do I know why in the first place.
And not at all what, in the last, Kaltrina Dervishi is a prostitute on the run from Serbian gang leader Fisnik Abazi, The police want her to give evidence against him: Abazi wants her dead, Only her lawyer, Keira Lynch, can keep that from happening,

What Keira doesn't realise is that this is a case with global repercussions and it's not long before the CIA come calling, If Kaltrina talks and Abazi is imprisoned, then certain information will come to light information that men will go to any lengths to keep buried,

What they don't realise though is that Keira Lynch isn't your typical Glasgow lawyer, When she was eight years old she killed a man, and as they're about to find out, she's at her most dangerous when threatened, .