Mr. Shivers

Started out well enough, with a strong atmosphere of mystery and dread, but just wore out its welcome with repetitive, unconvincing encounters with groups who were either white hats or black hats. The starkly Manichean perspective which oversimplifies a complex world fails to engage over an extended period and eventually caused me to lose interest. There are some evocative passages, and Bennett can write well, but I found this considerably less successful than “A Company Man”, which had various shades of grey, bringing its depiction of the world closer to the complexity of my perception and experience of it. After all the hype I've read about Robert Jackson Bennett, this book left me disappointed.