Matador

What originated through a haze of distorted reality and complete disorientation eventuated in a blood thirsty quest for vengeance which culminates in a maze of hellfire viewed through a blanket of smoke tinged with speckled blood. For bullfighter, Raf, rising from the dead (almost), memory is incons......more

This is a fascinating book. Once I began reading I could not put it down. It is well written and very well edited, which made the twists and turns of the Matador's (the Hero) thoughts easy to follow. The author's writing style echoes the disjointed memories of the Matador. He has been shot twice, onc......more

Ray Banks’ Matador is a Revenge thriller that’ll make you sweat like a pig on a roast. Your neck will prickle from the start when the protagonist Rafael wakes up in mud with excruciating pain. He’s been buried alive and the shot to his skull has damaged his memory. He breaks out, finds his way down......more

This book includes all of the Kindle episodes and is the completed novel. Not sure if it was the writing style in general, but the story was often quite confusing. It was hard to determine the why, who or what in some of the scenes. This may be due to the Brit gangsta like feel of the story, which wou......more

It's not my first tango with the work of Ray Banks and I'm not afraid to say I'm a fan of his, but MOTHER OF GOD, WHERE DID THAT COME FROM? I WANT MORE. Maybe I was predisposed to like this melacholic, humorless (yet not devoid of irony), existential tale but it would be a euphemism to say I enjoyed......more