An Honest Man: Law and disorder in 1960s London (Charles Holborne Legal Thrillers Book 2)

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The novel is written from the present, but looks back to the months prior to November 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell. And his characters are all too believable, their flaws and attributes neatly defining the human condition. Against this backdrop we meet Ralf, a West Berliner, at a cusp and cross road between school and university, caught in his own web of confusion and repression.

I really loved the picture of the island that was painted, even though it was described as a depressing run down place. Unlike some novels that take place in Berlin, An Honest Man is very textured and doesn't take the concept of "wow Berlin much history very interesting" at face value. Namely, each book has a propulsive plot that cumulatively builds on itself until reaching the ultimate boiling point; and there’s a decidedly Victorian view of the natural world as indifferent and often hostile towards humanity. I loved getting little clues from the dialogue and making those connections for myself without everything being spelled out for me. Once she sees Lyman is no threat, she allows him to care for her and the various bloody wounds on her body.Precise and detailed in its recreation of late-1980s West Berlin, the novel movingly recounts Ralf’s painful discoveries about love and loyalty .

Michael was raised in Bloomington, Indiana, where he graduated from Bloomington North High School in 2001, and later graduated from Indiana University with a bachelor's degree in criminal justice.The setting is vividly rendered, and Fergusson creates and maintains a rather bittersweet atmosphere. In An Honest Man, Ben Fergusson richly evokes West Berlin in 1989 through his narrator's nineteen-year-old self. Once again, Michael Koryta has created a cast of characters who are unforgettable and who each play a pivotal role in a story that seems to have varying plot lines but end up interacting in unexpected ways. The books one shortfall is Fergusson's failure to discuss the broader queer context of the day - besides a few passing mentions of AIDS, the story felt a bit anachronistic with regards to the queer elements.

Ben Fergusson rightly does so in both his first novel “The Spring of Kasper Meier” which describes the city soon after it was jointly occupied by the Allied powers and in his new novel “An Honest Man” which takes place in the time immediately preceding The Berlin Wall’s collapse in 1989. At the beginning of this superb thriller from Edgar winner Koryta ( Those Who Wish Me Dead), recently paroled killer Israel Pike discovers seven murdered men on a yacht adrift near the small island of Salvation Point, Maine. An enjoyable read - apparently the third segment of a Berlin trilogy set in the same building over the course of a century. In 2022, he will publish his first book of non-fiction, Tales from the Fatherland, an exploration of same-sex parenthood. com, O the Oprah Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, People, Reader's Digest, iBooks, and Kirkus Reviews.

We do have a lot of cliches mixed in with the action that takes in down to 3 stars but overall it is a great read. Michael's first novel, the Edgar-nominated Tonight I Said Goodbye was accepted for publication when he was 20 years old.