Re-posting. 4 stars. A great segue to Gideon's Sword with an action filled plot and surprising twists throughout. Gideon is once again thrust head long into a request from EES only to find out he has stepped deep into a terrorist plot of the worst kind, involving a nuclear bomb. With only days to unravel the scheme and save millions he teams up with an FBI agent and dashes madly about to stop the plan, until suddenly he is implicated as a primary suspect and must flee a massive manhunt to save his life. That's just the first part. It gets much better and finishes with a whole series of bangs, but none you could predict from the outset. However, being the romantic that I am, I would have written a whole different ending (no spoiler here). Note: if you are a career military service member or in the FBI, as usual with Preston & Child works, you'll have to endure inaccuracies and stereotypes. As a veteran reader I've learned to endure and automatically edit and smooth over the misinformed details. All in the name of entertainment! Hay personajes que devoran al autor hasta que los dos se quedan vacíos. Sherlock, Scapetta, Pendergast... A veces el autor intenta crear un nuevo personaje con partes de su gran éxito para renacer con una nueva serie. Algunas funcionan, otras no. La serie de Gideon Crew es, en mi opinión, un intento de los autores de volver a empezar con un personaje más simple que su fetiche, Pendergast, y de volver con tramas un poco más sencillas. Reciclar y simplificar. Qué me ha gustado: es una novela rápida, que apenas necesita de una pequeña introducción para explicar el personaje a quién no haya leído su primer libro. La trama es creíble, los giros argumentales son aceptables y, salvo algún que otro petardazo, las escenas de acción entran en el terreno de lo admisible. El personaje de Gideon Crew sigue siendo un antiheroe que evoluciona dentro de la historia.No me ha gustado: que sigue siendo una novela llena de clichés y que gideon Crew no es, aún, el mejor Pendergast.
What do You think about Gideons Strijd (2012)?
Maybe a bit better than the first one. Similar though.
—cris
It was OK. Not great, but very entertaining.
—CC123
