The Righteous Men

Another book that I read quite a while ago was The Righteous Men by Sam Bourne. It’s about a journalist who works for the New York Times. He begins to investigate a series of murders and is launched into trouble when his wife is kidnapped.

It has a religious theme to it which means it has suffered from a lot of comparison with Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code. Even some of the quotes on the back of the book refer to it e.g. “More readable than The Da Vinci Code”. It’s not really anything like The Da Vinci Code and I think the publisher did quite a bit of band-waggon jumping in the hope that it would sell more. Inevitably it seems that any book which even touches religion suffers this fate at the moment.

I enjoyed this book a lot. It’s not a masterpiece but it kept me reading. I felt as though I really got to know the characters and I didn’t really know what was going on until the very end, which was probably because I often don’t correctly guess what’s going to happen.

I give this book 7 out of 10.