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Sephira
by John Makean

Release Date: Jun 2008
Publisher: 3D Creative
ISBN: 978 0 9559 4570 0
RRP: £8.99

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Thriller of a Kabbalah flavour...

Flin Traenor is a middle-aged, struggling Private Investigator with a paunch... of the beer belly variety. Close to bankruptcy, Flin is in desperate need of a cash injection and a new case - the paying kind. Stanton Myers Pritchard, a prestigious law firm in London, is attempting to go to probate on the late Dawn Niles. This particular client is estimated to be worth between £50-70 million, but the finances are in a mess and they need help. In ordinary circumstances, the two worlds of Treanor and Stanton Myers Pritchard wouldn't meet - but in a mysterious twist of fate, Flin in the only private investigator to get the call for the job and the smell of hard cash proves too alluring for him. What starts as a complex but dull paper trail becomes something far more sinister than Flin could have ever expected.

Greedy and power-hungry lawyers, mysterious messages from an unknown source, an old lady's interest in Kabbalah and a ruthless mercenary for hire - can Flin make sense of it all? Well, yes... the trouble with Flin is that he's good at his job and as he starts poking his nose around, it gradually becomes evident that someone wants to cut it off. Shot at, chased, drugged, beaten and kidnapped - Flin is in for the ride of his life - as long as he actually survives, that is.

Sephira is an intelligent thriller with the expected twist here and there, although I did find the ending just a little too neat. It reads like an American film with its requisite happy-ending finale, which was somewhat disappointing. Interestingly, this novel acted as an introduction to Kabbalah and there were several pages of relatively complex and in-depth detail about the religion. Unfortunately, there was perhaps too much detail and not enough generalisations, which made it difficult to digest. I like my religions simple.

Enjoyable, entertaining and with an inexplicable draw, Sephira may creep up on you with tendrils that are hard to shake off.

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