Friday, September 1, 2023

The Gatekeeper by James Byrne



Desmond Aloysius Limerick is a gatekeeper.   Simply put he either gets doors open and holds them open or closes them and keeps them closed.   Now that would seem to be a doorman of some sort at a post hotel or restaurant.  That seeming would be wrong, in Dez’s world, the doors often have armed, angry people behind them.   Dez meets Petra on an elevator and things go down from there. 

Byrne is able to generate consistent action with it never getting boring.   He has a delightfully Byzantine complexity to his plot. In this case, the cause of armed insurrection seems obvious but it truly isn’t.   Good guys aren’t necessarily good and bad guys are worse than they seem.  

 I enormously enjoyed this book and highly recommend the author!


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