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3.74 AVERAGE
3.74 AVERAGE
Lots of details that could be edited in this one. A lot to take in. Not sure the protagonist is believable. Seems like it was written to be a movie.
Really enjoyed the thriller that had several twists that kept me guessing until the end. Always enjoy the stories from David Baldacci.
Army investigator John Puller has been sent to a town in rural West Virginia to investigate a multiple homicide. A family of four has been gruesomely slaughtered. The husband and father was an about to retire member of the Defense Intelligence Agency, on vacation from his job at the Pentagon. Now he’s dead and his briefcase is missing. Puller’s been ordered to cooperate with local law investigation in the case. But as soon as he arrives at the scene of the crime, the body count begins to rise. Now it’s up to him and Sergeant Samantha Cole of the County Sheriff's Office to find out why and who’s behind the murders.
Baldacci’s tense and occasionally gruesome crime thriller delivers a critical mass of thrills, chills, near escapes and plot twists to satisfy any aficionado of the genre, and McLarty and Cassidy do a very good job of voicing all the male and female voices in the book, and, more than that, they excel at the tough cop central characters Puller and Cole.
Baldacci’s tense and occasionally gruesome crime thriller delivers a critical mass of thrills, chills, near escapes and plot twists to satisfy any aficionado of the genre, and McLarty and Cassidy do a very good job of voicing all the male and female voices in the book, and, more than that, they excel at the tough cop central characters Puller and Cole.
If you took a random sampling of all of the Jack Reacher tropes, stripped them of any color or insight, then put them into a computer and asked the computer to generate a novel from them, you might end up with this book, but probably not. This book does something miraculous: it creates a version of Jack Reacher that is just plain boring.
How a self-respecting author could actually put his name on something this derivative, I do not know. Hope he got paid for it. As for me, I'm grabbing my toothbrush and my passport and moving on.
How a self-respecting author could actually put his name on something this derivative, I do not know. Hope he got paid for it. As for me, I'm grabbing my toothbrush and my passport and moving on.
There were parts that held my interest while others did not. The inconsistency resulted in this average rating.
Like a John Grisham book, I haven 19t met a David Baldacci book I haven 19t liked. This was fast paced, detailed, and army oriented, about a CID (Criminal Investigation Division) investigator named John Puller. He has been called in to investigate the murder of another army guy and his wife and two children. He wonders why he 19s the only one doing the investigation, and you have to read the book to find out the reason. Good book.
Entertaining. Slow build up to the main plot with a lot action along the way.
I've read most of Baldacci's books and enjoy them all. This one was good, but holy moly, it wasn't original! I felt like I was reading Lee Child. Puller is apparently the long lost twin of Jack Reacher (not really, but their traits, mannerism and back stories are eerily similar). I'm surprised at an author of Baldacci's status writing something SO similar to another popular character.
That aside, the story itself was entertaining enough. Puller is a military investigator sent to the backwoods of W. Virginia to solve a crime - all standard investigative stuff ensues including a little attraction between him and the local female sheriff. If you haven't read any Jack Reacher novels to compare it to, you'll enjoy it more.
That aside, the story itself was entertaining enough. Puller is a military investigator sent to the backwoods of W. Virginia to solve a crime - all standard investigative stuff ensues including a little attraction between him and the local female sheriff. If you haven't read any Jack Reacher novels to compare it to, you'll enjoy it more.