Daniel Pembrey's "The Candidate" is a wonderfully evocative novella that puts you right in the middle of the action and slowly winds fingers of dread and uneasiness up your back. With its spare prose and sense of impending doom, you follow along with protagonist Nick as he tries to pinpoint what has happened to him and what's going on.
The pace is fast and the action unfolds quickly, but that's mostly due to its shorter length, which is my only regret with the book. I feel the characters could have been fleshed out a bit more; however, they were fully drawn and easy to identify with. The author says a whole lot with a little. I'm definitely looking forward to more from his pen.
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