A Sense of Honour

G. Nigel Leith is a computer engineer and freelance writer in Sudbury.

In this novel, Roy French’s first, terrorism and politics meet in a
cauldron of violence. French has managed to capture the essence of the
Irish Terrorist’s mind and place it in familiar Canadian backdrops. He
uses the “family” of terrorists to explain terrorist behaviors and
the sometimes irreversible nature of the assassin’s violent world.

The book is generally a page-turner, though occasionally the author’s
prose falters and slows the pace of reading. It is this inconsistency of
pace that differentiates French from genre writers like Ludlum. The
characters are, with only two exceptions (among them the main
character), awkward and without personality. Dialogue suffers as a
result of the sameness among characters who function as little more than
sounding boards. Overall, however, this is a well-crafted novel filled
with tension, plots twists, and dramatic insights into the unfamiliar
world of the terrorist.