Monday, July 07, 2008

I’m not quite finished with Darkside by PT Deutermann, but I’m close enough that I’ll count it done. I’m on the last cassette (I know - it’s what they had at the library) and I figure I’ve got about 15-20 minutes of listening to complete.

Dark Motive…
At the US Naval Academy, the students refer to the administration as the Darkside, a nickname befitting the secrecy and manipulation that occur behind closed office doors. So when a first-year student falls to his death from a campus building, the Academy tenses as the Darkside begins to creep out of the shadows to cut off any potential scandal.
Dark Secret…
Retired naval aviator Ev Markham is now a professor at the Academy. When a provocative clue connects the dead student to senior midshipman Julie Markham, Ev knows how quickly his daughter could become the easy scapegoat the Darkside badly craves. But a second body convinces Academy security chief Jim Hall that a killer is on the loose. As both men struggle to uncover the truth, a psychopath more sinister than they can imagine lies in wait, protecting the ultimate-and most deadly-secret of all…
“Darkside”

This is the first novel by Deutermann that I have read. I liked it. The narrator, Dick Hill, was pretty good - better at the acting than doing voices, but he made it an enjoyable listen. I’ll get more Deutermann to listen to in the future.

3 stars out of 5.

[UPDATE 7/8]: I finished it on the commute this morning. What’s funny is that there was a twist, but that I saw the possibility of it early in the story and then figured the author decided against it as he got into the telling because I expected it earlier than it happened.