ansate reviewed The professionals by Owen Laukkanen
Review of 'The professionals' on Goodreads
4 stars
A solid, readable thriller. I almost finished it in a day, and what's more, I wanted to - I wanted to know what happened next, I cared about the characters. Which was a neat trick considering we spend most of our time with the bad guys, the professional kidnappers. Laukkanen does an amazing job of humanizing them, helping us understand how they got where they are, and that just because they do bad things doesn't mean they don't care about each other. It was a fun read, and it had a real plot. It didn't get too complex, which is good because I just blazed through it. I didn't always know what would happen next, which is not always a given with a thriller, even a fun one. [return][return]I'm looking forward to more from Laukkanen, though if it's about these detectives, I hope he spends more time fleshing them out …
A solid, readable thriller. I almost finished it in a day, and what's more, I wanted to - I wanted to know what happened next, I cared about the characters. Which was a neat trick considering we spend most of our time with the bad guys, the professional kidnappers. Laukkanen does an amazing job of humanizing them, helping us understand how they got where they are, and that just because they do bad things doesn't mean they don't care about each other. It was a fun read, and it had a real plot. It didn't get too complex, which is good because I just blazed through it. I didn't always know what would happen next, which is not always a given with a thriller, even a fun one. [return][return]I'm looking forward to more from Laukkanen, though if it's about these detectives, I hope he spends more time fleshing them out as well as the people they're after. [return]return
