Gatekeeper

I know all of Shelbys novels. "Gatekeeper" is definitely his best. A must read, a great plot, plausible characters. I'm desperately waiting for Shelbys next book.

This turned out to be an exciting book. Hollis Fremont works for the American consulate in Paris. She has chosen to work therebecause her parents had been assassinated there previously.Herlover and boss asks her to escort an old American back to theUnited States to surrender to authorities. The old prisoner turnsout to be the legendary hit man the Handyman.Once in the United States the Handyman pull off a wild escape.Hollis Fremont becomes marked for death by the Handyman.She is saved by Sam Crawford who belongs to Omega, a group that hunts assassins.Theystruggle to figure out who the Handyman is in the United States to assassinate.They are under constant danger because of the efforts of the Handyman.You have one exciting situation after the other in this exciting story.You wind up with a final confrontation at the Statue of Liberty.This is an excellent book that you will find hard to put down.I have purchased "By Dawn's Early Light" so that I can follow the exploits of the Handyman.Buy this book.It is great.

Written in the John Grishim way, easy and fun to read.A few things you will find about Shelby's titles:1. His characters are more analytical than emotional. 2. There is always a super villian, a man, run by a powerful organization/person. 3. A woman who has a mentor and is the target of the villian. 4. Fast paced action with almost every form of killing imaginable included.All in all, very entertaining. I enjoy Shelby. He keeps me up at night. His stories should be made into movies.By the way, I liked GateKeeper more than Days of Drums.

I was first introduced to Shelby when his first book, Days of Drums was touted by People Magazine. I bought it, enjoyed it and have since purchased Shelby's books as soon as they come out. He seems to stay true to his theme of the female heroine -- sometimes naive, but never, never stupid. In his first two books, his heroine was Holland Tylo. In this one, he kept the same four letters in the first name and gives us Hollis Fremont but towards the end of the book reintroduces us to his favorite heroine, Holland Tylo, once again. Hollis Fremont has four men in her life in Gatekeeper. Unfortunately, only one of them is ethical and the other three are even beyond being unethical -- they are disreputable and devious as well. Hollis gets enmeshed with a counter-terrorist group called Omega and danger follows. Another reviewer thought this ending was predictable....I didn't. It kept me turning the pages until the end.

Phillip Shelby has to be one of the best writers of our day! His writing style is superb. I felt as if I knew Hollis Freemont personally at the end of the book. It is a rare gift for a writer to be able to bring so much life to each individual character within the confines of a book of less than 500 pages. Additionally, there were moments while reading when I felt as if I could hear the sounds, smell the aromas, and feel the winds blow as Shelby intricately described each setting. The book is a page turner from start to finish. The action rarely relents. The plot twists are very clever. A must read. I will be anxiously awaiting all of his future works.