The Promised Land

The novel The Promised Land by David Hewson is a rather awesome novel. Before reading the novel, I read a few reviews of it online, and most people trashed the book pretty badly, calling it things such as a "B grade movie". That obviously made me not want to read it, but I did so in the end anyway. No matter what grade of a movie the novel was compared to, or how many cliches it had, I loved it. The novel itself is a mistery/thriller. Drug dealers, murder, all of that good stuff thrown together obviously makes the end product of a novel into a cliche, but despite all of this, I thouroughly enjoyed it. The novel deals with the main character, ex-cop Bierce who has been charged and found guilty of the two brutal murders of his own son and wife, which he doesn't even remember due to memory loss. At the last minute of his execution, he is magically taken out of the prison and is let go to live the rest of his life. From there on, his adventure starts where he embarks on a journey with a young female by the name of Alice to unravel the events of that fateful day. Pretty awesome isn't it? Yeah, that's what I thought. It's full of cliches and all of that stuff, but really, who cares? I liked it, and that's all that matters. Btw.. if you liked the summary, you should check it out!