As soon as I got this book in hand I quickly realized that it could be a great novel. What is told on the cover struck me from the start. It 's a simple but ingenious premise.
Imagine a classic tale of kidnap and ransom, one of those stories you've seen reproduced in a thousand different sauces, which in the end they all taste the same.
Imagine that your wife is kidnapped by the usual mysterious group. A man calls you and tells you that if you give him two million dollars to kill her. The problem is that you do not have them two million dollars, let the gardener, and if it is true that you jump through hoops to make ends meet, it does not have enough money that you can throw in risky purchases. Imagine having two million dollars, a figure that you have only seen in movies.
Hey, you're not listening to me. I do the gardening.
Mitch Rafferty says the man who kidnapped his wife. Where to find them, he, two million dollars. Quiet Mitch, you invent something. Wait for further instructions and your wife will see her.
Here.
To me this was enough to extract texture. This simple idea has convinced me to buy it. In its extreme simplicity is genius: blackmail you and ask you for money you did not.
E 'something illogical, right? Then why did they do? Based on
This question moves the first part of the story. Mitch will be there waiting for shocking revelations and reversals in the face that would never have imagined. In a short time is sucked into a paradoxical situation involving his family and horrible is going to undermine the good that has managed to build a life of sacrifice.
Koontz manages to perfection the course of history, places the twists in the right places, like a wise hunter who has the traps. And when you fall into that trap one is electrocuted.
I think I can say that, by eye, there's a plot twist every fifty pages and pages of whereas this book has about 350, is by no means an average of neglect.
However, the twists are never simple accessories, not just the tricks of a magician of mystery, but they always have a function to the story.
Everything is combined with a simple but effective style that sometimes gets lost a bit 'too much in the boundary descriptions which, though short, off the accelerator instead of just when you are praying that everything goes as quickly as possible.
The characters are really interesting. We understand that behind every one of them has been done a remarkable job of finishing.
Dialogues are functional to the story, sometimes a bit 'dry humor rarely contain quality, but never feels the weight of a conversation useless or misleading.
The author then turns a bit 'in the background, let me speak to both the history. And it is good, because it is the best way to keep a player glued to the pages.
No chatter, no purely incidental reflections on life, everything you see has a meaning, all you feel is important. Sometimes
Koontz, precisely because of this stylistic choice, it seems a bit 'cold and maybe some readers will be disappointed by this. But I think the plot is sufficiently compelling to be funny to anyone. Among the mourners
notes put a hasty end, and a bit 'too sickly sweet.
I do not like the fact that some problems remain unresolved. It 's too easy to create the mess and then put him in a bubble. The illusion provides the basis for a novel that every action the player performs on the card has an impact on the world around him, everything according to the assumption that what we are reading is a real and not fictitious.
Ok?
Good.
Then, in the real world, people die if the police investigate. If the clues lead the police in a particular direction, then the police go in that particular direction.
In this case it is not. Or rather, it could also be so, but not seen, and the end result is a sense of incompleteness.
At least that was my reaction.
For the rest, nothing to report.
Maybe a couple of coincidences a bit 'forced, but Koontz is able to vendersele well. Hats off for that.
For the second time I was very struck by this author and I think that I will continue to read his books.
Rating: 4 / 5
PS The title (same as in English, The Husband ) is horrendous.
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