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Summary: An art student's "delight"-All others don't waste your money
Review: A 496 page story that should have been written in 200 pages, so thin was the plot. The rest is just filler and garnish. Every time anything and I mean anything was about to happen in the book Linsay had to paint a canvas describing what the sun and the clouds were doing to the shadows and lighting which would have been fine had they had anything to do with the happening but they were just pulled up like a rabbit from a hat.
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Summary: A Better, More Interesting Spy Novel
Review: A skilled Amazon reviewer gently chastised this book for lacking any of the cutting wit that this genre tends to carry forth. This lack is exactly what caused the novel and the characters to stand out for me. The Color Of Night was painted--not written and does not lack in action. The "retired spy is drawn back into the fray" formula is fresh again in this authors skilled hands. A truly enjoyable yarn.
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Summary: Once again on top of his form
Review: After wandering away from Stewart Hayden mysteries and trying varying characters with varying degrees of success, Lindsey has finally (re)found the combination. Fast-paced, dark, superb. More along the lines, perhaps, of Ludlum than what we've come to expect from Lindsey, but it fits like a glove.
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Summary: Good, but not up to Lindsey
Review: As an avid David Lindsey reader, I must say that "..Night" had his usual wonderful characterization with deep Jungian shadows (!)and haute cuisine ecumenical tastes in food, location, architecture and women. However, this one fails at the denoument and ends with an uncharacteristically weak conclusion.
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Summary: Exquisite writing, especially if you are an artist
Review: As both a writer and artist, I was taken with this exquisitely-drawn - and I do mean "drawn" - novel. It is like a perfectly beautiful colored drawing, sometimes black and white, in brush and inks, just like the works of art Lindsey writes about with obvious knowledge of his subject.You just saw everything so vividly. I particularly appreciated the mouthwatering European travelog, the descriptions of scenes, restaurants, food, hotels - visited by the rich and famous. There is a flaw in this book that keeps it from being a great, however. (Sorry if it bothers some amazon review readers, but I often give five stars to a book for having entertained me thoroughly, and this one did). It is this: every truly great book is laced with wit. Read the grimmest novels, say, by Dostoevsky, Dickens or Tolstoy, and even and even some of the best contemporary detective and mystery writers and you will be chuckling, laughing, amused. "The Color Of Night" would have benefited had Lindsey given us a few wry touches here and there. He was too dead serious, which sometimes lent it a slightly precious tone. Of course, "precious" can be hilarious, and he might have capitalized on some of his foppish characters, but I found this novel too stolid. Another flaw: like some of the beautiful drawings one sees, the perfect, deft creations of the greatest artists, there is a coldness about the book itself. If I didn't know otherwise, I would have guessed that the author wrote the whole book with a quill pen and ink. I can see him thinking, dipping, scribing, again and again, with a dispassionate hand - and heart. Not exactly an insult, but sometimes I like a feeling (and the word 'feeling' is exactly the word I meant to use) that the work is coming from the artist's gut. Like Van Gogh, for example, who wasn't afraid to make a mess. Nevertheless, despite these flaws, "The Color Of Night" is a fun book to read and Hollywood would be crazy not to make it into a movie. Clint Eastwood as Harry? This time, clean, of course. Harry Strand is a morally upright man, despite his years of spying and his (acceptable) thievery. I'm glad he lived to "watch" Mara cross the street.
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Summary: Exquisite writing, especially if you are an artist
Review: As both a writer and artist, I was taken with this exquisitely-drawn - and I do mean "drawn" - novel. It is like a perfectly beautiful colored drawing, sometimes black and white, in brush and inks, just like the works of art Lindsey writes about with obvious knowledge of his subject. You just saw everything so vividly. I particularly appreciated the mouthwatering European travelog, the descriptions of scenes, restaurants, food, hotels - visited by the rich and famous. There is a flaw in this book that keeps it from being a great, however. (Sorry if it bothers some amazon review readers, but I often give five stars to a book for having entertained me thoroughly, and this one did). It is this: every truly great book is laced with wit. Read the grimmest novels, say, by Dostoevsky, Dickens or Tolstoy, and even and even some of the best contemporary detective and mystery writers and you will be chuckling, laughing, amused. "The Color Of Night" would have benefited had Lindsey given us a few wry touches here and there. He was too dead serious, which sometimes lent it a slightly precious tone. Of course, "precious" can be hilarious, and he might have capitalized on some of his foppish characters, but I found this novel too stolid. Another flaw: like some of the beautiful drawings one sees, the perfect, deft creations of the greatest artists, there is a coldness about the book itself. If I didn't know otherwise, I would have guessed that the author wrote the whole book with a quill pen and ink. I can see him thinking, dipping, scribing, again and again, with a dispassionate hand - and heart. Not exactly an insult, but sometimes I like a feeling (and the word 'feeling' is exactly the word I meant to use) that the work is coming from the artist's gut. Like Van Gogh, for example, who wasn't afraid to make a mess. Nevertheless, despite these flaws, "The Color Of Night" is a fun book to read and Hollywood would be crazy not to make it into a movie. Clint Eastwood as Harry? This time, clean, of course. Harry Strand is a morally upright man, despite his years of spying and his (acceptable) thievery. I'm glad he lived to "watch" Mara cross the street.
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Summary: Exquisite writing, especially if you are an artist
Review: As both a writer and artist, I was taken with this exquisitely-drawn - and I do mean "drawn" - novel. It is like a perfectly beautiful colored drawing, sometimes black and white, in brush and inks, just like the works of art Lindsey writes about with obvious knowledge of his subject. You just saw everything so vividly. I particularly appreciated the mouthwatering European travelog, the descriptions of scenes, restaurants, food, hotels - visited by the rich and famous. There is a flaw in this book that keeps it from being a great, however. (Sorry if it bothers some amazon review readers, but I often give five stars to a book for having entertained me thoroughly, and this one did). It is this: every truly great book is laced with wit. Read the grimmest novels, say, by Dostoevsky, Dickens or Tolstoy, and even and even some of the best contemporary detective and mystery writers and you will be chuckling, laughing, amused. "The Color Of Night" would have benefited had Lindsey given us a few wry touches here and there. He was too dead serious, which sometimes lent it a slightly precious tone. Of course, "precious" can be hilarious, and he might have capitalized on some of his foppish characters, but I found this novel too stolid. Another flaw: like some of the beautiful drawings one sees, the perfect, deft creations of the greatest artists, there is a coldness about the book itself. If I didn't know otherwise, I would have guessed that the author wrote the whole book with a quill pen and ink. I can see him thinking, dipping, scribing, again and again, with a dispassionate hand - and heart. Not exactly an insult, but sometimes I like a feeling (and the word 'feeling' is exactly the word I meant to use) that the work is coming from the artist's gut. Like Van Gogh, for example, who wasn't afraid to make a mess. Nevertheless, despite these flaws, "The Color Of Night" is a fun book to read and Hollywood would be crazy not to make it into a movie. Clint Eastwood as Harry? This time, clean, of course. Harry Strand is a morally upright man, despite his years of spying and his (acceptable) thievery. I'm glad he lived to "watch" Mara cross the street.
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Summary: Sometimes Revenge is Just, Sometimes it's Just Revenge
Review: Harry Strand has long since retired from American intelligence. He meets lovely Mara Song, thinks it's love, then one day he plays one of her videos and sees his wife's last moments on the screen. Her car is forced off the road and all he can do is watch. It's not long before he realizes that the two sides, who he ripped off vast funds from, are out to get him. Because during the forgotten cold war, when he was supposed to be channeling American monies to anti-communist criminals he was actually founding his own charitable foundation and trust fund. Harry has made some nasty enemies. But does he want them off his back, or does he want to make them pay? It must have been hard for the writers of secret agent fiction to deal with the end of the cold war. No longer were readers swallowing hook, line and sinker a whole genre of fiction. Spy book writers had to come up with new ideas, new twists and David Lindsey does a superb job of just that in COLOR OF NIGHT, a book I borrowed from my boyfriend that kept me awake long after my bedtime. Sara "Babe" Hackett, Girlfriend from the Darkside
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Summary: EXCITING!!!
Review: Harry Stroud is trying to put behind his life as an American intelligence agent, while still mourning the death of his wife, when suddenly enters Mara Song, a beautiful woman with a deadly business proposition. After accepting Mara's propostion, Harry will be catapulted into the nightmare world he desperately is trying to escape. Then one day, Harry happens to find Mara with a video tape of his wife's final moments. As watching the tape, Harry knows who her killers are, and through a carefully orchestrated plan, Harry will make them pay...each and every one of them! 'The Color Of Night' is a novel full of action, intrigue, and tricky plot twists to keep readers up all night. David Lindsey is among the best writers of action thrillers. His novels are always smooth, easy to read, guaranteed up-all-nighters that never disappoint. Mr. Lindsey has never been so prime for bestsellerdom as he is now, so do yourself a favor and read him, you will thoroughly entertained. Nick Gonnella
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Summary: Perhaps the best thing that David Lindsey has written.
Review: Having read every one of Linsey's books I believe it can be said categorically that he has matured into one of the finest writers in the world of the serious espionage/thriller genre. THE COLOR OF NIGHT is a taut, beautifully crafted story of espionage, love, deception and revenge, set against a backdrop of the cutting edge of the commercial art trade. Le Carre move over-David Lindsey has arrived!
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