Mortality

Rating:
Summary: hmmmmmmmm
Review: Not being a published author its a lot esaier to critique someone else's work than write your own. What does that have to do with this review? Unfortunately I can not give this book the praise I have others at Amazon.
Ex-alcoholic Paul Tobin gets a second chance to be a plastic surgeon at his brother in law's antiagaing clinic in the Keys. However the patients of this clinic are dying which is the driving point in the plot to this novel.
Unfortunately though Steven Ford raises some timely issues, and his theme is intriquing its been done again and again in literature and fiction. His writing while clean and pure isn't exceptional enough to warrent a strong recommendation to readers who are not Mediacal thriller junkies anxiously waaiting Cook's latest book. Ford has his moments in this book that truly hint at his potential as writer and communicator of ideas using the thriller as his medium, for instance when Paul inevitably fell off the badwagon though not shocking or unpredicatably was handled in a manner that I did find myself rooting for him.
My biggest complaint is that Ford deals with the shades of grey of such things as are acts of maliscious intent evil if there is good cause for them, again while skilfully done in parts on the whole I felt so removed from all characters I didn't really dwell on answer to that, nor was particu;ar;y unsettled by some of the passages that should have unsettled me maybe I'm just too jaded a thriller reader, maybe Mr. Ford's editor's over edited copy, or maybe this is an author on the way to hitting his stride but not quite there yet. You decide.