A review by usbsticky
The Downside by Mike Cooper
3.0
3 stars = I liked it as per GoodRead's rating system.
This short heist book reads like a movie script. It's short on detail but to the point on action and a fast read.
Short summary: Finn is out of prison after a 7 year stint. He is immediately offered a vault heist of valuable metals. He gathers up his old crew to plan a tunnel job. Meanwhile, activists gather for an environmental protest at the same time and around the same place that the heist is taking place. What will happen? Will Finn succeed or will the activists and police derail his caper?
A lot happens in 286 pages. The characters have to be introduced, the heist planned, scouted and made. The "other side" in the form of special railway agents is also shown, but it's somewhat a halfhearted effort that was better off not included, with the word count better off given to the heist instead. So while each event or character is given an adequate treatment, none was really fully developed enough for me to feel it. If it was a movie, I would have enjoyed it but forgotten all about it once I walked outside into the bright sunshine. As a book, I enjoyed it, now I'm writing a quick review and on to the next one.
I got this book free as an uncorrected proof.
This short heist book reads like a movie script. It's short on detail but to the point on action and a fast read.
Short summary: Finn is out of prison after a 7 year stint. He is immediately offered a vault heist of valuable metals. He gathers up his old crew to plan a tunnel job. Meanwhile, activists gather for an environmental protest at the same time and around the same place that the heist is taking place. What will happen? Will Finn succeed or will the activists and police derail his caper?
A lot happens in 286 pages. The characters have to be introduced, the heist planned, scouted and made. The "other side" in the form of special railway agents is also shown, but it's somewhat a halfhearted effort that was better off not included, with the word count better off given to the heist instead. So while each event or character is given an adequate treatment, none was really fully developed enough for me to feel it. If it was a movie, I would have enjoyed it but forgotten all about it once I walked outside into the bright sunshine. As a book, I enjoyed it, now I'm writing a quick review and on to the next one.
I got this book free as an uncorrected proof.