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Steel Rain (Hardcover)

by Tom Neale (Author)
3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Headline Book Publishing (4 April 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0755322371
  • ISBN-13: 978-0755322374
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,125,084 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Special Agent Vincent Piper is an FBI Field Officer based in London. Any crime involving Americans is his business. He's estranged from his wife and he loves his only daughter Martha, but she is drifting away from him. A terrorist bomb goes off in Borders bookshop in Charing Cross road and as Vincent surveys the carnage, he starts to weep. He had arranged to meet Martha in the bookshop. She dies in his arms. Vincent vows revenge and relentlessly pursues all the leads he can find on active anticapitalist groups. But what he discovers is even more shocking than his daughters' death...

About the Author
Tom Neale is a London born freelance writer whose work has appeared widely in the national press both in the UK and Ireland. He travelled extensively in the United States during the 90s, on assignment for magazines but he currently lives outside Dublin with his Irish girlfirend. His hobbies include windsurfing and clay pigeon shooting, although, to date, rarely at the same time. This is his first novel.

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Read it - and watch out for the next one..., 4 Feb 2007
By S. Purcell "Susan Fletcher" (Argyllshire) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Steel Rain (Paperback)
Always looking for a new author - delighted to find Tom Neale.
It may take a couple of pages to get into the style - but not to get into the story, which grabbed me from the first paragraph.
The writing style is pacy and engaging, and the plot twists and turns throughout. Lots of interesting, and relevant, meanders.

The characters are certainly developed enough to understand - but left just shady enough for you to imagine the detail.

Celeste and her high-class working friends are intriguing.... and more central to the plot than I realised.
Vincent Piper, the main character, is interesting - leaves you wanting to know more.
The plot is complex enough to keep you thinking and reading all the way through.


I think that Tom Neale uses a brilliant mix of US and UK classic styles, with a contemporary edge. I hadn't come across his stuff before this book, but bought the next novel, Copper Kiss, in hardback at the airport to find out what happened to Vincent Piper next... and would say that Copper Kiss is even better than Steele Rain. Is there more on the way? Vincent Piper feels like a character with more of a story to tell.
Great read, highly recommend both Steele Rain and Copper Kiss.


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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars loads of pace and keeps you guessing, 30 Jan 2007
By Dave Cook (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Steel Rain (Paperback)
Everyone's entitled to their opinion but I really disagree with the previous reviewer. I think the writing style is great, gives the story so much more pace and momentum told in the present tense. I agree it's full of very clever twists - but the good thing is that they're believable, so many thriller plots just descend into nonsense or rely on the most ridiculous coincidences and contrivances - even biggies like patricia cornwell have been guilty of pretty cringe-making plot devices but Neal keeps it real and that made it so much more enjoyable for me. I thought the main character was really likeable - he gets some great one liners - and it was great to have a gutsy woman in the thick of it for once. I think the terrorism subject matter couldn't be more relevent in these times, certainly gave me plenty to think about.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars writing style lets it down, 11 Dec 2006
By N. Brett (Wiltshire, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Steel Rain (Paperback)
There is a not bad thriller in this, but a horrible writing style really is off putting. The author avoids the usual perspective to write as if you were actually watching. Instead of writing "he crossed the road and thought about his options" this would read "he crosses the road thinking about his options". It might just be me, but the style constantly jarred.
Shame because the story is not bad and has some reasonably clever twists. If you can take the style then you might enjoy this.
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