. . . that THE EIGHTH SISTER by Robert Dugoni is a great espionage thriller.
One of the perks of being a writer is that you sometimes get to meet other writers. And that can prove very insightful.
I’ve read—and enjoyed—several of Mr. Dugoni’s earlier novels. However, THE EIGHTH SISTER is the first of his works that I read after he and I first met, and began corresponding. About books? Nope. About writing? Nope. About NBA superstar basketball players? Yep.
I’ve since come to learn that Mr. Dugoni is a student and serious thinker of virtually everything that crosses his path. Family. Friends. Law. Politics. Writing. Sports. You name it.
Mr. Dugoni studies writing, and what other writers say and do. He also teaches other writers what he has learned about how to be a writer. A great writer. (Confession: Mr. Dugoni and I recently shared the speakers’ podium at a writers’ conference, where he and I exchanged views not about the NBA but about writing thrillers.)
So, it’s no accident indeed that THE EIGHTH SISTER is a terrific read, both a terrific espionage thriller and a terrific legal thriller. (Also a student of timing and marketing, Mr. Dugoni instructed his publisher to promote THE EIGHTH SISTER not as a legal thriller as it proposed to do, but instead as an espionage thriller. However, I’m here to tell you it’s both.)
I could recite all of the common superlatives of a great novel, riveting, tense, fast paced, suspenseful, page turning, full of surprises, twists and turns and characters who come alive on the page and hold you hostage until the very end (and I just did say all that), but I’d rather put it this way: THE EIGHTH SISTER is a great story by a great writer and thinker that will entertain and prove well worth your time.
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