The Vault-Mark Dawson
Mark Dawson is one of my heroes. He is one of the reasons I got into indie publishing in the first place. He is a great writer and although he has hit the big time in the indie publishing world he has also kept his writing career up to speed.
The vault is the first in the series of what will become Group 15 of which I have read a few. It is a great start of series book introducing the main idea and the lead character for the Group 15 books.
The Vault is a fast-paced action thriller set in Berlin just before perestroika and the fall of the wall. It is a great race through the terrors of the time. Mark manages to bring home the cold, bleak feeling that was East Berlin during this period. We get to follow Harry Mackintosh as he wades through the sewage of the British MI6 and the corruption of the East German Stasi. Harry has plans to climb the MI6 ladder and nothing will stop him.
Harry finds love for the first time, but a cruel and sadistic Stazi officer has other ideas. With his mission in pieces and nowhere to go he approaches a shadowy figure for help and is forced to work with newbies in the clandestine field so has to risk everything to get the prize.
The Vault keeps you moving, I did not get bored at all. Mark’s descriptions of the time remind me of the newsreels of when the Berlin Wall came down.
His descriptions of the way we all felt at that time the animosity towards the East, the senseless killings on both sides. It is a stark reminder that this was only in recent history and we should be very careful it does not happen again.
The Vault is a great book that will keep you on your toes, it has some nice twists and turns. Mark is a great writer of this kind of fiction.
I give it four stars as it could have been edited a bit more carefully. But all in all the story flows nicely with believable characters and a well-thought-out plot. It also starts to develop Harry Mackintosh for future roles in Group 15.
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