Frenetic chase scenes, some requiring total suspension of belief, bewildering accumulation of characters with Bondian skills and luck, a good book to listen to while doing chores because you can easily concentrate on something else and then come back to the chase without having missed a whole lot. Think Bullitt but with an amateur instead of Steve McQueen. Will undoubtedly be made into a movie with Tom Cruise. Fasten your seatbelts. ( )

Collision starts off with a bang when Ben Forsberg is on his honeymoon with his wife in Hawaii when a supposedly random shot through the window kills her. This is the prelude to an assassination attempt gone bad when Pilgrim, a member of the Cellar, an off the books dirty ops offshoot of the CIA, survives an attempt on his life in what is a plot to uproot the Cellar and get them to work for the evil government contractor, Sam Hector, who Ben Forsberg works for. Pilgrim then links up with Forsberg to find out who is behind this plot.
There is a good bit to like about this novel. For one thing, it moves at a fast pace. The story is loaded with action. The writing is also quite competent. There are a couple of big flaws in this novel. The first is that the author has an obvious political agenda and an axe to grind. The malevolent defense contractor has become tired and cliché in the world of thriller fiction and Hollywood. The other thing is that the villain in the story, Sam Hector, is not remotely believable. He is evil to the core, more of a caricature than a real person. Those things stop this from being a great novel instead of a decent novel. Still it is entertaining and worth reading.
Carl Alves - author of Blood Street ( )

Also, ich weiß nicht so recht. da habe ich aber schon weit bessere Bücher des Genres gelesen.
So ganz verstehe ich auch nicht die fast schon hymnischen Abgesänge der durchaus renommierten
Schriftstellerkollegen im Klappentext. Der Plot ist an sich eine ganz gute Idee, die Figuren in der Geschichte
bleiben aber durchweg blass, viele Geschehnisse in der Story sind ziemlich schnell vorhersehbar
(z.b. wusste ich schon auf den ersten 100 Seiten, wer hinter dem Mord an Ben's Frau steckt),
es sind zwar ein paar nette Actionelemente eingebaut, die helfen aber auch nicht über die doch recht dünne Story hinweg. ( )

Very interesting thriller about what happens when right hand does not know what left hand is doing. Ben Forsberg, freelance corporate consultant working on PMC contracts, gets himself in whole lot of trouble after an unknown (but highly rated and feared) assassin is found shot dead with Ben's calling card on him.[return][return]Soon he is hunted by one clandestine agency after another - all thinking him to be a mastermind behind a possible massive terrorist attack and all working without knowing for one another or considering others (on the basis of classified and "reliable" data) to be enemies.[return][return]Very good view of what can happen when everything is compartmentalized and everything lies in the hand of the few - as they say "Quis custodiet ipso custodes" - and what is worse than having those few running their own agendas (most notably profits).[return][return]Recommended. ( )

Jeff Abbott is the king of thrillers, and they are non-stop in this novel of action and intrigue. almost as good as 'Adrenaline'. ( )