Julie B. (jtomblinson) reviewed on 9/2/2011 + 8 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

I *love* this book and this series. The author somehow captures a real grittiness and perspective that feels like, if these things could be real, this is quite likely how they would actually go down, how they could be explained. Beyond that, there's a great imagination at play in the details and the parentheticals, and the stuff people say to each other. It's great fun.

The series starts off quite chaotically as Matthew Swift literally materializes on his bedroom floor. Or, at least, it used to be his bedroom floor -- but now it's someone else's house (and they're having a dinner party, darn it). He quickly establishes that he's been missing, presumed dead, for about two years. It also doesn't take him long to learn most of his friends and associates are dead or missing, and the ones who aren't all seem to be working for one guy, at one large company. Hmmmm. Time to make some new friends in unusual places -- all with a dry, off-balance, sarcastic sense of humor that is really very funny once you get used to it.

Oh -- and there are a couple of very important catches. One, the guy everyone's working for now used to be Matthew's mentor. And two, Matthew didn't disappear or come back by himself; he's brought someone, or something, back with him. Or did they answer a call and just happen to bring him along for the ride?

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