The Best Laid Plans by Russell Govan

A book that starts off in full swing, tension, contradiction, the sense of accomplishing a mission and doing what is right despite the instructed from our main character. Nice! Great openings mean that the writer knows what he/she is doing, and Russell Govan clearly knows his craft.

First impressions are crucial and in this point of view, Russell Govan captures our attention flawlessly and keeps it with the promise of rough action, that doesn’t take long to come with graphic details on a very well laid narrative, that will impresses the reader right away. Nothing far-fetched, nothing out of this world, but that’s exactly why we liked it so much, it feels real and although the narrative is fast, it gives you enough details with enough specificity, yet, enough simplicity for you to draw the images on your head. It’s AWESOME!

A thing that is very interesting and new to read, is that the narrator, our main character, is so conscious about his own flaws and short-comings that he expresses them naturally, which makes us much more invested in the book. It’s a very nice touch by Russell Govan when he made the book relate to the reader by making the main character more human and humane, a veeery nice touch by very original in the way he approached it. Another thing about the narrator/MC is that he is VERY attentive to the details of other people, body cues, language cues, intonations, he is just soooo sharp. It’s super cool. If you have high standards, this book will suit you, because nothing escapes this man.

So! What IS this awesome book about? Glad you asked. “The Best Laid Plans” is about a special agent that is infiltrated on a possible terrorist group on England in order to feed information and try to stop them with the help of the national security agencies. This same agent has to keep his cover at all times as a gay ex-military and deal with the missions he is handed in order to gain the trust of the leader of the group, Ryan Watson, and figure out what he is really intending to do next. The problem arises when on a mission, he get’s side-tracked because there is an incident happening and he decides to help out a woman that was being assaulted by two men, a decision that may just compromised the whole operation because this terrorist group is just the tip of the iceberg.

Full Review Here.

Book Score: 8.7/10
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