Book review
Genre Thriller
Rating 3.5/5Spoilers- None
There are no spoilers because the world is no longer black or white but grey!
We have started accepting things which could have been considered immoral or wrong some ages back
!Even a crime like murder is acceptable if done for ‘National’ interest!
Welcome to the grey area!
Just when I was getting used to the Camel club, David went back to King and Maxwell! And the story is so connected to the previous one, it is undisputed that you need to go in series to get this one!
It is not a compulsion though since you can still get the story if you are intelligent enough! ( Then again if you are reading David Baldacci instead of Yuval Noah Harari then maybe you need to question your intelligence!)…
So here the chief two investigators have two most common problem in the world! One is money and another is mental!
So the whole book is in fact how they deal with the problem!Sean takes up a case since he needs money and just when he thought it was a simple open and shut one (that statement itself is a misnomer as there can not be any open and shut case!);
The case gets so complicated when agencies like (a typical Baldacci novel!!) CIA, FBI AND this time DEA! are thrown in like dice on a Ludo board!A genius scientist who is distantly related to Turing is killed or he committed suicide (that’s never the case!).
Sean is sent to investigate and meets the silent genius who is the victim’s daughter with a special type of Autism!Just when he was getting around the camp, the bodies keep on piling like the dough in a pizza kichen!Add to it an ‘accidental fire’, many other genius scientists, one wife who seems lovely and lonely! (That’s a dangerous combination so if you ever encounter anyone similar then just listen to your head and not heart and simply RUN!!).
A regular Baldacci adventure will obviously have a brave break in, a boat chase, one helicopter crash and many kills here and there!The final pages could have been trimmed and made more better as the only way our agents survived was that one guy had a change of heart!
And to sound more clever by giving clever clues to finally find a route to camp and to get a long lost treasure! That’s epic optimism!
After getting so much torture Sean asks for money for others makes it a proper fiction novel!!
I am little disappointed in the gals of the book though! They could have been much better! Instead they are shown to be either depressed or lonely or plain evil! And all just wanna drop their pants for Sean which is irksome to say the least!
The introduction of the one sane person in the whole book, a psychiatrist is one of the few saving grace in the book!
Hopefully Michelle recovers mentally (another back story there and that’s a shocker!) for good though even in that state she made a cracking case in the mental asylum and in the camp! So more gal power in the next one Baldacci!
The best part of the novel is the description ok the Beale Cipher! That’s an interesting information and sure to keep your curiously juice flowing!Just for that you can read the whole book!
Of course you might as well skip to the end but where is the fun in that!!So thirteen books done in series which I started this year! So in the year of the CORONA, this may turn out to be my only great achievement!Read on genius!!
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