ospalh reviewed Shall we tell the President? by Jeffrey Archer
Review of 'Shall we tell the President?' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
This is for the President Ted Kennedy original version.
It’s a good thriller.
A Greek illegal immigrant overheard plans of a senator to have the president shot, and ends up dead, together with everybody he talked to, except our heroic g-man, who than has one week to stop the plan.
The things that are apparently left as anachronisms in the updated version work OK for a book set in 1983. Then you had to use payphones a lot, and FBI agents probably did walk around with their pockets full of small change.
Surely no feminist manifesto, but less misogynistic than you’d expect from a novel of the era. Although there are two pointless homophobic remarks in there.
