Agent Palmer

“Cadel Piggott’s parents thought he was brilliant… and dangerous. His therapist thought he could rule the world. They were right.” This is the description on the back of the paperback edition of Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks, and it’s a fairly decent spoiler-free description.

Charity is a book unlike any other in the Bernard Samson series. It not only stands on it’s own merits as you could read this without any of the others, but it also concludes the trilogy started by Faith and Hope and concludes the overall series that started with the Game, Set, and Match trilogy.

Getting a promotion that you’ve worked for day in and day out, forgoing vacation and social graces, may seem like a dream come true. But when Edward Wozny gets such an opportunity, he takes a break and it’s not like a vacation at all. It’s a thrilling mystery that he wasn’t expecting.

If good science fiction can be an escape from the world we live in, great science fiction can make you think differently about the world we live in while also being an escape from it. The Graven Trilogy anchored by the third book Ethera Grave is great science fiction.

Despite being the middle book in the Faith, Hope, and Charity Trilogy, Hope is singular in its focus and faster-paced than most of the books in Deighton’s Bernard Samson series.