Chasing The Truth

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Summary: Chasing the Truth is a great read !
Review: Barry Lee Davies's Chasing the Truth is truly a great read! It is the author's ability to create believable and realistic characters- with their own identifiable weaknesses, strengths, and unique personalities - that makes this action-thriller a fry cry from the more traditional type of police procedural. The narration and dialogue are vivid - and it quickly becomes apparent that the author knows what it is he writes about! This book has not been written by an author who uses his imagination only: it has been written by one who has lived a life in this genre. Everything from the police interactions at the street level to the discreet conversations behind the closed doors of the CIA and the State Department is life- like and convincing. Overall, I highly recommend Chasing the Truth as an entertaining action-thriller- espionage read!

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Summary: Suzy Q from toronto
Review: I read "Chasing the Truth" in just 2 days, I especially like it when a book grabs me from the beginning as this one did. If I get thru 1 chapter and I'm not hooked, then I tend to put the book aside and never finish. This grabbed me and kept my interest. Story and flow are what's important. It had just enough mystery, action and intrigue.Reminded me of a Grisham novel. I thought it was terrific,and I'm going to watch for his 2nd book.

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Summary: Chasing the Truth
Review: So close!

This book comes so close. All the author needed was a style book and a good copy editor. There are commas and hyphens where they shouldn't be, but missing where they are needed. And there are spelling mistakes that spell-check didn't pick up because they are homonymic ("peddle" vs. "pedal," for example). We have all been there. It is very hard to correct your own work, and it is even harder to do on a computer screen than on a print-out, which is my theory to explain why, in this computer era when we should see less "typos," we actually encounter more.

The plot is first-rate, with satisfying twists. Due to the author's former career in law enforcement, the sequence of events and detail are convincing. This is despite a few nagging threads left dangling (how did the two main protaginists first come to know each other, and so well, for example, and how did one of them end up working in the United States?). He does a little more telling than showing on occasion, and he describes his characters a bit like a police report: "...because of his five-foot ten. one hundred ninety pound frame" and "[he] lifted his five-foot-ten-and-a half-inch frame" are two separate examples.

And perhaps he should eschew a few adverbs.

But the dialogue rings true. I found myself caring about the characters and willing myself not to skip pages when the action became really exciting. At times the hero seemed somewhat out of date (I can't explain that without giving away plot elements) but generally they were believable. I kept visualizing the story as a screenplay because it was so vivid; a drive in the summer through the British Columbia Interior is hot, hot, hot, while the tumultous thunderstorm the hero's pursuers go through is wet, wet, wet.

I hope Barry Davies has another book in him. I would like to follow his characters through a few more adventures.


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Summary: Chasing The Truth is an excellent story
Review: This book is great! It has many twists and turns, taking you behind the scenes of high government and the back rooms of crime. Special forces, working in conjunction with people with too much power, give the main characters a real bad time. It is an excellent read for anyone who likes to keep turning the page.

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Summary: CHASING THE TRUTH by: Barry Lee Davies
Review: This is an excellent story. When I first looked at it I thought it might be for men only, but I quickly learned that the author had developed a plot that certainly involved a female character, who wasn't secondary. This is a wonderfully entertaining read, and one that takes you along as the characters become entwined in one dangerous situation after another. I was unable to put the book down.