Daily Archives: February 26, 2015

“Basic Law” is the first book I have read by J. Sydney Jones. It took me a few pages to get caught up in the book but once I did so, I really could not put it down. I wonder if the use of present tense interfered with my initial enjoyment of the book – it is a recent trend that I have noticed in suspense/mystery books and one that I am not entirely comfortable with as yet.

The story is set in primarily Germany during the early to mid 1990s. I mention this because I had to gleam it from the book as I read along. I thought at first that it was set in the present but that would make the protagonist a man in his sixties and that didn’t match his actions and physical abilities. The action races across Germany, Austria, Crete, and the Czech Republic and back again.

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