Today it is my great pleasure to share my thoughts on Revenge of Odessa by the late Frederick Forsyth together with Tony Kent. I came extremely late to the party, only recently having read The Odessa File, but am so happy to have made the time to read the book as this brilliant follow up thriller. My thanks to publisher Bantam for the copy for review via Netgalley.

Today on the blog I'm taking a look at a very old novel. Older than me even, which is pretty old. As the follow up novel, Revenge of Odessa, by Frederick Forsyth with Tony Kent, is out in October, and I have the book on my tbr pile, I thought I would be best to start out by reading…

Lo Sciacallo, un assassino solitario che si guadagna da vivere uccidendo su commissione, si trova ad affrontare un avversario inaspettato, Bianca dell'MI6...

And just like that, August is no more. Christmas chocolates are in the stores (did I blink and miss Halloween?), and I can no longer avoid doing a thing I don’t really want to do. On the plus side, Christmas chocolates are in the stores (I love Puds) and last week’s Bank Holiday was, against all the odds, hot and sunny so I went to the zoo.

How have we gotten to the middle of August already? I swear these months are getting shorter and I have less and less to show for them as well. Working week so not a lot has happened, although I did manage a couple of walks, when the temperature cooled enough to make it survivable, and the ducks, moorhens and swans seemed grateful for the company, if a little confused to see me in an evening rather than at seven am.

And another week has ended, flying by in what has been, quite frankly, a bit of a blur. Work is a little odd at the moment, for a variety of reasons. Not bad odd, but busy and potentially taking unexpected turns. Makes the days pass quickly though, I guess. I have a run of half days and days off the next few weeks, aided by the Bank Holiday at the end of the month too, so looking forward to them.

Forsyth did away with the conventions of thriller-writing and still kept readers enthralled. He reset the whole genre, the author of the Jack Reacher novels writes

Forsyth, who sold 75 million books, is remembered as "one of the world's greatest thriller writers".