Hugh Kirby - A Book Review

The book that I have chosen to review is 'Being' by Kevin Brooks. It
is about a sixteen year old boy called Robert Smith. Robert has been
complaining of stomach pains and so is taken in to hospital for the routine
procedure. He is anaesthetized but, in the middle of the procedure, he
wakes up. He can feel every bit of the procedure, he can hear the doctors
and surgeons talking. From what he can hear, something has just gone
horribly wrong.
Robert gets up and tells the surgeons to close up the hole, which they
duly do. He then takes one of the surgeons with him and goes on the run.
He ditches the surgeon at the train station and gets a train to London. He
goes to a friend in London and as she is an expert in counterfeiting. He
asks her to help him so she gives him a new identity and says that he can
come with her and hide away in her holiday home in Spain.
They get to Spain and start to fit into life there as they know that they
will be staying there for a while. The friend, Eddi, gets a job as a waitress
and Robert gets a job as a labourer on a building site nearby. They survive
on this money and settle into life in Spain well. They become closer and
closer to each other until it is clear that they are an item. They are then
tracked down by the organisation chasing Robert and, in a bloody
confrontation, Robert and Eddi kill the organisation's henchmen before
Eddi is killed herself. Robert takes Eddi's motorbike and rides away into
the night.
I would definitely recommend this book to anyone. It is a good
thriller with a great storyline. You can really get into this book and once
you do, you won't put it down.