Patriot Acts by Greg Rucka
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Book Summary Author: Greg Rucka Edition: Hardcover Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 2007-08-28 ISBN: 0553804731 Number of pages: 352 Publisher: Bantam |
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Book Reviews of the Patriot Acts
Customer Review: Rucka writes with the ferocity of a lighening-fueled jackhammer!
Summary: 5 Stars
I put aside the book I'd been reading because the new Greg Rucka, PATRIOT ACTS, was released this week. I started reading late Friday night and didn't put it down until I'd finished it Saturday morning. While not as exciting as the last entry into Rucka's Atticus Kodiak series, CRITICAL SPACE, PATRIOT takes the character in a new, darker direction. There's actually far more action then CS, but CS is the only book to give me any sort of physical reaction. There's a chase sequence that lasts for about 60 pages and completes the first act of the book. My heart was beating so fast that I swear I thought I was going to have a heart attack.
Nothing in PA comes close that level of reader involvement, but I still couldn't put it down. Rucka's prose is lean and clear. He's the literary equivalent of Bruce Lee in that every movement, or in this case every word, goes straight for the kill. There's no showy time-wasting verbal-ese, just simple writing that rings with the ferocity of a lighening-fueled jackhammer.
It's been six years since the last Kodiak novel, and I'm not exactly sure I like there the character is heading. Rucka takes Atticus down a dark road and we watch him loose his last bit of humanity. He started out as a Personal Security Agent in KEEPER, the first of the series. In CS we see his training as a cold-blooded killer. Picking up with the final chapter of CS, PA shows him putting that training to use as he seeks revenge for the death of a friend.
Only one of Kodiak's established supporting cast makes an appearence, and that disappointed me. Rucka writes women with a level of humanity that I've never seen from a male writer, and those female characters are sorely missed (for a great example of Rucka's female persepctive, read the stand alone novel A FISTFULL OF RAIN). These characters who comprised
who comprised Kodiak's family aren't even referenced by name, only veiled mentions in passing. With this new direction, and a revamped hero, PATRIOT ACTS is a perfect jumping on point for new Rucka readers.
I first discovered Rucka through a the comic series WHITEOUT, and 10 years later I still consider it one fo the finest comic series every produced, and definitely the single best suspense comic I've ever read. It was a few years later that I decided to give his prose a try and I was hooked from the first book. During his hiatus, Rucka wrote a few espionage novels that are more in the vein of the BOURNE films rather than BOND. That style of political writing and techno speak makes its way into PA, but unlike Tom Clancy, Rucka never drowns his prose with it. I think most people will enjoy PA as much as me, perhaps more if they're joining the series for the first time and come in with no preconceived notions. Seriously folks, nobody writes thrillers as exhilerating as Rucka, nor as hard-boiled - nobody!