Reviews for Blue Hearts

The average rating for Blue Hearts based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-01-21 00:00:00 Mikel Rhodent I enjoyed this one, and probably would have given it five if I had read straight through. Left it too long between readings and sort of lost the thread.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-10-31 00:00:00 C Lare Pattison "Blue Hearts" is not an earth-shattering representative of the political-thriller genre. But what it lacks in groundbreaking storytelling, it makes up for with clean, straight-forward plotting, and some clever and genuinely unexpected twists. Kind of like "The Da Vinci Code", only written by a competent author. I kid. Story-wise, this isn't actually like that other one at all. Jim Lehrer didn't set out to create a convoluted labyrinth of puzzles and clues, but as the story centers on two retired CIA agents, there is an effectively used element of subterfuge and misdirection. The agents in question, however, are in their late 60s and haven't played the spy game in some years, so there is a noticable air of relaxation and nostalgia in the characters, even though we're dealing with such political thriller tropes as the Kennedy assassination, political scandal, and assassins-for-hire. There is a sort of gentle, cautious handling of these elements, which leads to a gentle, cautious climax, which tumbles into a gentle, cautious conclusion. You get the sense that Jim Lehrer had an interesting idea for a story, then wrote it down with as little fuss and bluster as possible, and the result is "Blue Hearts", a soft-spoken and well-written spy story that entertained me without adding anything new or outstanding to the genre.