I'm sorry Jon Steele.
I didn't like the The Watchers.
I was attracted to read this long book of 768 pages, but couldn't finish it
Marc Rochat is le guet de la Cathedrale de Lausanne, the watchman who maintains the bells of the Lausanne Cathedral in Switzerland, as his predecessors have done for centuries. Katherine Taylor is an ex-Playboy model now working as an exclusive high class call girl in Lausanne, catering to the wealthiest men of the world. Jay Harper wakes up in a London office with no remembrance of who he is or why he is there. Without finding out what is going on, he accepts a detective job in Switzerland, looking for a Russian who has an important secret several agencies are looking for. When the Russian is killed in a murder/car crash situation... I lost interest.
Rochat is a childlike character, who talks to his bells, visits the ghosts in the crypt and seems to have a mystical quality about him - as he was selected at a young age to become the caretaker of the bells. Katherine's storyline seems to lead towards her being kidnapped or something - somehow they are all going to meet up. Jay seems to be an old school gumshoe detective, but I found his story groundless and aimless. There is some background action that suggests angelic beings are watching over us and perhaps going to battle with darker forces in the next books.
I did read 300 pages of the 768,
and by that point I was just putting in my time, thinking about the other books I wanted to read. I rarely don't finish a book, no matter how bad.
The Watchers is the first of three novels in the Angelus Trilogy.
For me it was a passable waste of time, but nothing I was engaged in or needed to finish.
2013 / Paperback / 768 pages
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