Book Review: Remembrance Day

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

Remembrance Day     Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Henry Porter
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Thriller
Simon & Schuster, May 2000, $25.00, 368 pp.

Irish born molecular biologist Constantine Lindow left Boston for a research job in London. Con waits for his brother near an Underground station when a bomb explodes. Many innocent people die and Con lands unconscious in the hospital. When he regains consciousness, Con realizes the police suspect he set off the bomb, working as an agent of the IRA.

When the head of the Metropolitan Police Forces Anti-Terrorism Branch, Kenneth Foyle stated that he felt Con was innocent, his superiors yanked him off the case. Con realizes he must prove he and the IRA are innocent without any help from the British law enforcement officials who want to simply lock him up without much proof. Con must uncover the identity of the ingenious mad bomber who sets off explosions with a telephone.

REMEMBRANCE DAY is a non-stop thriller that brings terrorism into the twenty-first century with the use of the telephone to set off a bomb. The story line is exciting especially when Con and Kenneth separately work on the investigation. Though some of the subplots add little to the main story line, they too generate much excitement and energy. In his debut tale, Henry Porter freshens up the terrorist thriller with a classy believable chiller.

Harriet Klausner

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