The sprawling and seedy web of Martin Smith’s politico-thriller series gets even stickier in Minion or Master II, as George Howden’s international misadventures continue. With a vengeful corporate titan determined to ruin him for complicating his patricidal scheme, the sometimes hapless Howden bounces between Bermuda, New York, London, and more, tirelessly hustling in both his personal and professional circles. Though the author has a tendency to tell, rather than show, the straightforward prose is accessible and paced well, despite the occasional bureaucratic, governmental, or legislative chunk of exposition. Romance, familial tension, corporate intrigue, and shadowy underworlds blend remarkably well in Smith’s second entertaining installment.
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