Variety is the spice of life

The book is interestingly title to start with and right from the beginning is noticeably a much fast moving story than the previous books in the series. Archer is at his premium form in the book and does what he does best - bring in the fiction element amidst well known facts. This time it happens to be Queen's address of the first meeting of the newly formed government after each election. There are certain ceremonies involved like presenting the Crown jewels for the meeting and the story is about how Miles Faulkner, the series villain is set out to steal them and humiliate William and his team who are responsible for the royal protection unit. The story begins as a continuation from one of the conversations that happens between Miles and William regarding a painting donated by the villain to get favorable verdict on an almost convictable case. Only for William to figure out that the painting donated by Miles happens to be a fake and the original is at his US residence. Coincident...

Of all the movies, that i wanted to see, never imagined i would be posting a review for this one!! Such has been the low profile entry of this movie that, apart from couple of interviews where it was mentioned as a decent one in recent times, i never came across any promotions or even reviews for this movie!! But again, a good product is its own advertisement. I happened to watch this one over the weekend and was pleasantly surprised. It has a run time of 100 odd minutes and if you skip through the 2 montage songs and small bit of romance portion involving Vikram, not that they were bad or dragging, but didn't feel like it. The story, for its run time, is quite taught and engaging. Surprisingly, despite being the only famous name in the movie cast, Vikram prabhu is not the hero, though he has more screen time than the hero character himself. The story is about a person on trial who has to be produced in court. Being the escort for that prisoner, what happens during the journey, how...

As mentioned in previous posts, this being the 4th or 5th book in the William Warwick series, Archer hardly makes any effort to reintroduce the characters. The story begins as abrupt for those who follow the series or like a pilot episode of a fresh season for those entering new, with a new assignment being given to William Warwick and his motley bunch.  This time, they've a dual responsibility to unearth potential corruption in the royal protection unit at the same time, perform the protection duty as well for the most beloved royal scion possibly, ever - The Princess of Wales, Diana. With Ross Hogan assigned the task of protection duty for the princess, while rest of the crew are split into teams shadowing the existing cops at the royal household. how they go about uncovering the misdeeds and corruption in the existing team, overcoming initial resistance and then slowly gaining their trust, only to investigate further to unearth evidence against the cartel and eventually resultin...

At the beginning of every year i always lament about how drastically the climate is changing and how terrifying it is to imagine increasing summer months with increasing temperature. Edhapathi thaan nee polambama irunthirukka idhu pathi sollama irukkanulaam kekkapdaathu. Last year, around early Feb itself it began to sweat and we had to resort to air conditioners from the second month of the year itself. With the heat wave, agni natchathiram, increasing its span from the designated 20 odd days to months together, coupled with ever increasing slab rates for electricity consumption, people are not just caught between a rock and hard place, but a very hot rock at that as well. Every year, the number of months of summer, heat rather, has been on the increase with the supposedly cooler months on the reduce, but the cooler temperature are now moving towards colder temperature. The supposedly monsoon months have reduced in duration while the volume of rain has more or less remained the same, ...

On a spree to finish off the Warwick series and since the entire novel goes like an episode or a season of a drama series, posting the review of "Hidden in plain sight" , "Turn a blind eye" and "Over my dead body" as a combined one. The series follow a set template with William Warwick, getting introduced with a promotion to next level and being moved from one squad to another. If he was in Artefacts and rare paintings squad in the previous one, and then goes undercover to expose the black sheep in police department to Drugs division. His team of officers remain the same and they tag along with him, under the leadership of Hawksby. Alongside the regular recurring foe of Miles Faulkner, there is another villain in this book, Rashidi, who happens to be the drug kingpin. How William and team manage to arrest him, only to find him escape by the barest of loop hole made possible by Booth Watson, the knight in not so shining armour who appears as the defense cou...

After finishing "End game" the next book that i picked in the series was the very first one where William Warwick begins his career as a detective. It felt and in reality as well, as if i was watching the origin story of a new super hero comic. But not as cinematic. For those who have followed the "Clifton Chronicles" they may've a different opinion, but since i'ven't read those yet, it felt a refreshing change from the other series that i've been reading off late by different authors.  The story begins with how William enrolls as a policeman, despite his father's wish to see him as a QC(Queen's counsel). The story traces his life as a beat cop, who befriends his fellow partner and learns the tricks of trade from him. A tragedy strikes and on the last day of his beat, post which he was to be promoted to a different role, his partner is killed in a street encounter, in which William is also badly injured. After he joins Scotland yard as detect...