WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT 'UNSAFE'
.........................as it comes off the press!
Deliberately, I did not read the back cover, preferring to permit the book to tell its own story.
By the third line of Foretaste I was thrust into a scene requiring intense concentration - any pilot descending on an ILS approach in IMC knows full well the intellectual, and emotional, demands being made of him.
Ray moves the mouse to the pause button - stress dissipates. Telephone is ringing, a strange conversation ensues. Where are we heading?
Prosecution of conspiracies, risk assessment, (dear to my heart), the controls of a piano stool, the AD's existence between physical reality and fantasy: the subjects continue to tumble forth. Suppress the rationality of the intellect, let the Proustian flow have its way, this is to be a long haul.
And then a sudden, dramatic shift - coming with a change of typeface - into a fast-moving, sinister and alarming sequence of scenes.
Wide of sheep farmer, sheepdog, sheep and old Land Rover on high pasture with dusk approaching.
Intellect re-engages, elements click into place - the telephone call, the film script, the final sentence of Risk Assessment, Clipper One-Zero-Tree's cleared for take-off, two-seven right.
We know what is going to unfold, the pace has altered, we are travelling very quickly now, too quickly, the horror is being painted in intricate detail.
I am not a reviewer of books, Paddy, neither do I have the intention of trying to become one. Anyway, it cannot be so because reading has stopped at an early stage so that you may be acquainted, whether you care to be or not, with one reader's first response to what is going to be an excellent, riveting book. Attention is fully engaged as each page turns.
Very best wishes to you and to your ‘new baby’.
Colin M
"Of course, I haven’t read the book yet – but, truly, I can’t wait to get into it. Skating through quite a few pages, it appears to be exactly the kind of book that I would reach for in a bookshop and devour in a matter of days. I love the technique . . .
For the moment, my reaction is one of great pleasure in holding a very nicely designed and bound, nicely thick paperback on a devilishly interesting subject. I also like the font very much indeed.
I know I’m going to love it"
Mike Fox
"UNSAFE arrived safely, I’m over a third of the way through and finding it difficult to put down." Nigel Tonks
For a week I hardly put it down. It is knockout - the film side and everything else. I'm going to give it to my daughter [a film producer] to read. She may have some ideas.
Roger Inman
Deliberately, I did not read the back cover, preferring to permit the book to tell its own story.
By the third line of Foretaste I was thrust into a scene requiring intense concentration - any pilot descending on an ILS approach in IMC knows full well the intellectual, and emotional, demands being made of him.
Ray moves the mouse to the pause button - stress dissipates. Telephone is ringing, a strange conversation ensues. Where are we heading?
Prosecution of conspiracies, risk assessment, (dear to my heart), the controls of a piano stool, the AD's existence between physical reality and fantasy: the subjects continue to tumble forth. Suppress the rationality of the intellect, let the Proustian flow have its way, this is to be a long haul.
And then a sudden, dramatic shift - coming with a change of typeface - into a fast-moving, sinister and alarming sequence of scenes.
Wide of sheep farmer, sheepdog, sheep and old Land Rover on high pasture with dusk approaching.
Intellect re-engages, elements click into place - the telephone call, the film script, the final sentence of Risk Assessment, Clipper One-Zero-Tree's cleared for take-off, two-seven right.
We know what is going to unfold, the pace has altered, we are travelling very quickly now, too quickly, the horror is being painted in intricate detail.
I am not a reviewer of books, Paddy, neither do I have the intention of trying to become one. Anyway, it cannot be so because reading has stopped at an early stage so that you may be acquainted, whether you care to be or not, with one reader's first response to what is going to be an excellent, riveting book. Attention is fully engaged as each page turns.
Very best wishes to you and to your ‘new baby’.
Colin M
"Of course, I haven’t read the book yet – but, truly, I can’t wait to get into it. Skating through quite a few pages, it appears to be exactly the kind of book that I would reach for in a bookshop and devour in a matter of days. I love the technique . . .
For the moment, my reaction is one of great pleasure in holding a very nicely designed and bound, nicely thick paperback on a devilishly interesting subject. I also like the font very much indeed.
I know I’m going to love it"
Mike Fox
"UNSAFE arrived safely, I’m over a third of the way through and finding it difficult to put down." Nigel Tonks
For a week I hardly put it down. It is knockout - the film side and everything else. I'm going to give it to my daughter [a film producer] to read. She may have some ideas.
Roger Inman
