The book started out a bit slow with the author focusing more on character development than plot, but when the plot really kicked in, the speed of it just kept building into a very good story. Marcus Graver is a chief detective in the criminal intelligence division (CID) in Houston with a counterpart, Dean Burtell, who has been like a brother, who Graver trained. Graver is the protagonist in this story, a strong masculine character who lives by an ethical code that sometimes takes him to the edge of reason. So, he fits right into our genre of action/thriller books. When other members of the CID start dying, Graver suspects that it’s Burtell who has turned dirty, who has begun selling information and selling out to the bad guys. The plot involves some very big bad guys, Panos Kalatis and Brod Strasser, who have a vast international reach and who have just happened to find Houston as a convenient and temporary home for their ambitious crimes. Lindsay brings in a great cast of characters, some good guys, some not, but all are interesting, not stereotypic. Lindsay also uses his vocabulary more effectively than many authors, but not too much. By the way, the title of the book is explained in the last two sentences of the book: “It seemed to [Graver] that he was arriving too late in the sequence of events. Perhaps he should have been trying to understand, instead, the character of darkness itself, and what it was that happened when men’s desires were shaped and formed in an absence of light.” This one definitely gets my recommendation.
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