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The 'Saint' in Space, 29 May 2004
By A Customer
This book - made up of two more or less separate stories - is strongly reminiscant of Leslie Charteris' Original Saint stories. Just as Simon Templer's initials ST gave him the nickname 'saint' the principal character here has the initials KT - hence the knight.The Knight is a do-gooder, a tough man who 'somehow' always gets involved in trouble - he rights wrongs and supports the underdogs (again like ST) he is someone that you would very much like to be friends with (and be very foolish to become an enemy of!). OK, so we have a character that we can 'relate' to. Doing interesting things - on Mars. It should 'work' but somehow for me it didn't. Perhaps the plot moved a bit too slowly, perhaps all the characters were a little too two dimensional. Perhaps it was too similar (despite mars) to the original saint books (and not done so well); whatever the reason I didn't really feel that I'd got my 'money's worth' out of this book. If I found this book in a second hand shop for a pound or two, I'd probably feel that I'd got a good deal. But at the full price, I don't feel that I'd got value for money. I don't so much have a negative atttitude to this book - as a neutral one. Not a bad book - but not a particularly good one either.
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