The Man Who Never Was: A John Milton Thriller - Gripping Espionage Novel for Mystery Lovers | Perfect for Beach Reads & Book Club Discussions

This is the sixteenth book in the John Milton series by Mark Dawson and takes up right where book fifteen (Bright Lights) leaves off. It really completes the story begun in Bright Lights and then opens up a very large future plot line. (And yes, you do finally find out how Elijah did in his last boxing match.)Milton is tracking down the leaders of the cartel that killed his friend Beau Baxter, and pulls Ziggy, Hicks, and Chase Baxter (Beau's son) into his small team that is taking on the cartel. An excellent storyline which moves around Europe and ends in South America. Dawson is at his best in having nice twists and turns in the plot, and except for the fact that one can presume that Milton will survive, one really does not know what the next chapter will bring. Very entertaining.Dawson seems to be writing to an audience that has a little more education than he did in his earlier works in this series. For example, the reference to the myth of Sisyphus (on page 6 of the paperback edition), is not something I saw him do in earlier works in this series.At the end of the book, Dawson sets up the plot for the novels to come - and no I am not going to spoil that for you here, but you won't want to miss it.Excellent book - but you must read at least the fifteenth book in the series for this one to make sense. And better yet, read them all in order.