[spoilers] Harry's Diary

[lwhite53]

I think Harry's Diary is the best of the spooks books, to date. As almh says, it is written in the style one attaches to Harry and that helps you to believe that he really wrote it. Also, I love the honesty of his entries (fictional "honesty" of course, which is perhaps an oxymoron) as honesty is something we know that Harry plays with a lot, the concept of "the truth" being "elastic." But he promises himself that he will tell the unvarnished truth in his diary and he seems to stick to that, as many of the entries portray him in an unflattering light (absolutely loved the bit with his then wife's supposed lover).

One of the things I appreciated most was the interweaving of real world events into Harry's fictional life, which gave the book more immediacy for me. You can actually *see* him at work through the events you've read about over the years.

I was a little puzzled at the end -- the quick follow-up to Ruth's leaving with his going off to rescue Catherine. That situation took several months to resolve (based on the entry dates in the diary) and would have happened in S5, somewhere between eps 5 and 6, but there was no indication of that in the actual series. In fact, it seemed to me that ep 6 followed quickly on ep 5, as everyone was somewhat leery of Harry because of what had just happened to Ruth.