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A review by paperbackstash
Zero Cool by Michael Crichton, John Lange
3.0
Michael Crichton wrote this under pen name for #hardcasecrime line.
Part Adventure type thriller, part thriller. Includes exotic travel and artifacts with an innocent radiologist who is dragged along for the the ride the full way
The only thing I don't get is the Spaniard on the beach with his warnings. Who was he ultimately with?
An easy read with a simplified writing style on behalf of Crichton. His prose here doesn't match his sci fi and thrillers written under his own name.
Sometimes frustrating because of unfairness of situations, it was clever enough and different from other hard case crime books I've read. Has an average star rating on Goodreads, but I'm going with three and a half Stars. Clever enough and kept me going.
The main character is rather simple and not that interesting, but the exotic players pulling strings behind the scenes keep it colorful. And apparently the police there are as lazy as most countries when it comes to homicide investigation.
it doesn't pause long, there's always something going on, so the page count flies by. Not fully a mystery, but it's not possible to tell what's going to happen next until the secrets are revealed to the main character.
Part Adventure type thriller, part thriller. Includes exotic travel and artifacts with an innocent radiologist who is dragged along for the the ride the full way
The only thing I don't get is the Spaniard on the beach with his warnings. Who was he ultimately with?
An easy read with a simplified writing style on behalf of Crichton. His prose here doesn't match his sci fi and thrillers written under his own name.
Sometimes frustrating because of unfairness of situations, it was clever enough and different from other hard case crime books I've read. Has an average star rating on Goodreads, but I'm going with three and a half Stars. Clever enough and kept me going.
The main character is rather simple and not that interesting, but the exotic players pulling strings behind the scenes keep it colorful. And apparently the police there are as lazy as most countries when it comes to homicide investigation.
it doesn't pause long, there's always something going on, so the page count flies by. Not fully a mystery, but it's not possible to tell what's going to happen next until the secrets are revealed to the main character.