Lone Eagle Red Dragon

Rating:
Summary: Big Screen Potential!
Review: This story of the ambiguous distinction between right and wrong, truth and falsehood, yin and yang is well worth the effort to overlook the book's obvious lack of editing. The heroine, or anti-heroine, a mystery from page one to page 236, keeps our hero, Detective Lieutenant Joseph Lazzaretto, guessing along with us.

The story takes place in Los Angeles, with plot-thickening scenes dotted across the US geography, encompassing military and government interest all the way to the Oval Office and back. Like all good stage plays, all the real action takes place within a single 24-hour period. But when I say, "action," I'm thinking, "Lights, Camera, ...."

This action, adventure, spy thriller demands the big screen. From the martial arts prowess of our heroin (I like her! OK?) to the chain of command that wakes a "recalcitrant NASA official" at gunpoint, there's too much happening in too many places almost simultaneously for any medium less magical than the movies.

But that's not to say this book reads like a screen play. Hardly. We have many long introspective passages to help us build respect for our hero, Joe. In one such, we find him kneeling in the sanctuary of the paradox of his appreciation for the trappings of religion and his complete aversion to religion itself, positioned for revelation.

Yet peppered with mouth-curling quips, this story begs to be heard. Lines like Joe's "Don't look at me in that tone of voice." And the quotable "The human heart has only so many beats and I'm not going to waste mine fleeing on foot." Tom Porter's LONE EAGLE RED DRAGON has big-screen potential: I can hardly wait!

Rating:
Summary: Big Screen Potential!
Review: This story of the ambiguous distinction between right and wrong, truth and falsehood, yin and yang is well worth the effort to overlook the book's obvious lack of editing. The heroine, or anti-heroine, a mystery from page one to page 236, keeps our hero, Detective Lieutenant Joseph Lazzaretto, guessing along with us.

The story takes place in Los Angeles, with plot-thickening scenes dotted across the US geography, encompassing military and government interest all the way to the Oval Office and back. Like all good stage plays, all the real action takes place within a single 24-hour period. But when I say, "action," I'm thinking, "Lights, Camera, ...."

This action, adventure, spy thriller demands the big screen. From the martial arts prowess of our heroin (I like her! OK?) to the chain of command that wakes a "recalcitrant NASA official" at gunpoint, there's too much happening in too many places almost simultaneously for any medium less magical than the movies.

But that's not to say this book reads like a screen play. Hardly. We have many long introspective passages to help us build respect for our hero, Joe. In one such, we find him kneeling in the sanctuary of the paradox of his appreciation for the trappings of religion and his complete aversion to religion itself, positioned for revelation.

Yet peppered with mouth-curling quips, this story begs to be heard. Lines like Joe's "Don't look at me in that tone of voice." And the quotable "The human heart has only so many beats and I'm not going to waste mine fleeing on foot." Tom Porter's LONE EAGLE RED DRAGON has big-screen potential: I can hardly wait!