The Three Day Affair by Michael Kardos: review Will is a musician who has left New York and set up home in the suburbs, to where his close, and more successful, college friends, Jeffrey and Nolan, come for a break. The plan is to drink, play golf and have a laugh about the old carefree days - and it all seems to going great until something weird happens: Jeffrey gets out the car to pop into a local store and comes running back, dragging the shopgirl with him. It turns out he has robbed the store and kidnapped the girl. As the friends roar off with her in their car, a moment of group recklessness plunges them into a nightmare. There are more than a few reminders of Scott Smith's classic A Simple Plan in all this. If you can accept the deranged logic of this plot, then The Three Day Affair is a nicely paced, and elegantly written story, with enough suspense to keep you sitting up reading longer than planned. Will, Jeffrey and Nolan find themselves locked together, and as they search for a way out of the situation, which won't involve a long stay in jail, we learn more about the three friends and exactly what went on during those college days. Kardos can certainly write - as you would hope, as he is not only an English professor, but a director of the creative writing programme at Mississippi State University. However, unfortunately, the twist at the end of the story is a tad too obvious from the start.