As sudden as a blood soaked Pink Slip | Severance Package

What a ride! | Severance Package | Duane Swierczynski

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	• Severance Package Duane Swierczynski St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 30 reviews view larger image
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A "Kill Bill" sensibililty

When someone tells me a book is written with a movie script in mind, it turns me off. But What if you could watch a terrific, violent movie and read the characters' minds? This harrowing scary ride of a book does that. Very simple, yet too vivid not to enjoy. The author tells you terrible things, and he feels for his characters, but that doesn't stop him from telling the tale.

As sudden as a blood soaked Pink Slip

Brutal. Violent. Relentless. Fun. This could be easily be a four-word review, as these particular words go a long way in preparing you for Bill Swierczynski third novel, out on the heels of The Blonde. Severance Package does a wonderful job of combining corporate office politics and the deadly world of nothing-is-as-it-seems espionage, raising the question of exactly which profession is more ruthless, cut throat, and soullessly ambitious. One would be tempting to describe it as a cross between The Office and Three Days of the Condor, but that would barely be doing it justice.

Bill Swierczynski's writing style has one major asset that many authors tend to overlook these days: brevity. His descriptions are colorful and informative, yet they aren't weighed down by their own poetic license. Characters and locations are set up and knocked down as quickly and efficiently as dominoes, without ever leaving the reader confused or unsatisfied.

Even the story itself, which takes place in the time frame of a few hours, is tight and compact, with all of the action and suspense layered delicately from beginning to end. Swierczynski's storytelling style is as quick and hard hitting as a lead sap to the temple.

The comic book reminiscent illustrations scattered throughout the book are interesting and fun, even though some might find them a little distracting. Of course, considering that Swierczynski authored the Cable series for Marvel Comics, and is currently helming a six issue run of The Punisher in Garth Ennis' absence, the presence of the silhouette artwork is understandable.

If you like your novels short, sweet, and chock full of balls-to-the-wall action, you should definitely not pass this one up. Just don't forget to punch in.

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What a ride!

This is the first book that I have read by this author, but I know that it won't be the last. His style of writing is really "over the top", but in a good way. The plot is like taking a roller coaster ride into a series of dark tunnels, not knowing what's going to appear when you come out at the end of each one. The action is fast and furious, and if at times it seems a bit "too much", I can forgive that because the story is so engrossing and kept me turning page after page, eagerly devouring the events. The characters aren't really well-defined, but perhaps in a book of this type they don't really need to be. Read it for yourself and see what I mean.

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Jamie DeBroux?s boss has called a special meeting for all ?key personnel? at 9:00 a.m. on a hot Saturday in August.

When Jamie arrives, the conference room is stocked with cookies and champagne. His boss smiles and tells his employees, ?We?re a cover for a branch of the intelligence community. And we?re being shut down.? Jamie?s boss then tells everyone to drink some champagne, and in a few seconds they?ll fall asleep---for good. If they refuse, they?ll be shot in the head.

Escape is not an option. Jamie?s boss has shut down the elevators and rigged the fire towers with chemical bombs. Panic sets in, chaos erupts, and no one is sure whom to trust. Jamie quickly realizes that there?s only one way he?s ever going to see his family again: the hard way.

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