The Condor Song
by Daryl Nyznyk
This book will grab you from the opening
and will not let go until the very end. Not to give the story away, but the
book opens with a murder and is chock full of them. This gives the reader many
opportunities to try to solve them, I promise that it won't be easy to do that!
Besides murder, there are deceptions and betrayals! There is also love and forgiveness.
The cover bills the book as a novel of
suspense but it is so much more than that. The author makes use of a flashback storytelling
to set the story and give the reader information that moves the story along. I
usually have a problem with this method but not in this cases. It is so well
done that you forget you are reading about things that happened in the past. I
really enjoyed it.
This is also the age old story of right
versus wrong. What happens to your life when you decide to do the right thing? What
will the cost be? Will it turn out well for you? Will there be those in your
life who will try to destroy you because they knew what the right thing to do
was and chose to do something else? When all is said and done, will everything turn
out okay? These are just some of the questions that the author answers in this
book. The story is straightforward. A man who is an environmentalist is
murdered because he has discovered something that will stop a major project
from going forward. There is much money to be made, and there are characters in
the book who will stop at nothing, including murder, to see that this project
goes ahead. For me the heart of the story was the conflict between the
protagonist, Sean Donovan and the antagonist Richard Wolf. There's could be the
story Joseph and his brothers, or the prodigal son, or any story when right and
wrong collide.
Overall the story is developed well and
beautifully told. There are a few places where the author seems to lose track
of the story, but they are few and he gets back on track quickly.
I have found a new author! Mr. Nyznyk has
written two other books and I know that I will be reading them. I am curious to
see what his earlier style was and how he grew, or was shaped, into how this
story was written
