Review: Jail Break

Jail Break by Ross Greenwood
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is the second in what I am choosing to call the author's "Prison Series". I don't know if two books (the former being "The Prisoner") can be called a series, nor if there will be a third one, but I do hope that there is.
As with The Prisoner, the characterisation is so well done that you feel that you really know the protagonists. The book uses the device of two parts of the story being told by intermingling chapters from the main character's early and current(ish) - the "current" part of the book is set in 2010 - life. This can, if not handled well, be a bit clunky, but in this author's hands it feels very natural.
Where necessary, the gritty realities of life are described, but they are there for a purpose and are not overdone.
If I have one criticism of books by this author, it is that they are so addictive, one ends up reading them too quickly!

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