I liked this book a lot. Probably for the same reason many people don't. It goes to great lengths to develop the characters. Even some of the less important side characters. What struck me as fairly unique was the authors treatment of the villains. It is way to common these days to give the villians some redeeming quality. Especially when the writer develops characters with any depth at all. Who hasn't found something to like in Freddie Kruger, if only his one liners? Katzenbaugh has turned a mean trick in this book. He takes 2 people that you don't like from the start and gives them life and depth. The trick is that the more you get to know them through the coarse of the book the more despicable and loathsome they become. The only pleasure they get is from the misery and manipulation of their victims. There is not a scrap of decency or compassion in the 2 soulless beings. It is seldom I read a book of this length and don't identify in some small way with the bad guys. So I tip my hat to the author for creating 2 villians that make Natural Born Killers look like life coaches. John Katzenbach tiene la particularidad de describirlo todo, este libro no es la excepción. Thomas Adrian, un profesor universitario es diagnosticado con una enfermedad degenerativa parecida al alzheimer, devastado por esa noticia, sumado a su sufrimiento por la pérdida de sus seres queridos más cercanos lo lleva a pensar en el suicidio. Sin embargo, el "destino" le hace presenciar el secuestro de Jennifer, una adolescente infeliz que estaba decidida a abandonar su hogar. Thomas, decide enfocar sus últimos momentos de lucidez en salvar a esa joven desconocida. ¿Podrá salvarla, o la locura se apoderará de su mente antes de lograr su cometido? Una novela que no te deja indiferente, John nos lleva a través de situaciones que nos hace explorar los recovecos de la mente humana, conocer un mundo paralelo al nuestro, que existe, pero que preferimos ignorar. Un thriller fantástico, con personajes con personalidades claramente distintas y fascinantes. Definitivamente Katzenbach es un genio con la narrativa de suspenso psicológico.
What do You think about Der Professor (2010)?
Good but strong subject matter and the story was a little drawn out.
—Moonfaery
