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Den Sidste Gode Mand (2010)

by A.J. Kazinski(Favorite Author)

3.47 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

8756796838 (ISBN13: 9788756796835)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Politiken

series

Niels Bentzon

review 1: Niels est négociateur au sein de la police danoise. Il n'est pas très apprécié de ses collègues. Ni de son supérieur, qui, un peu pour le mettre sur la touche, le charge de contacter des personnes qui font le bien autour d'elles. Car il semblerait que quelqu'un assassine les personnes foncièrement bonnes. Venise. L'inspecteur Tommaso a rassemblé un épais dossier sur les meurtres de plusieurs personnes dans le monde. Des personnes qui ont en commun de faire le bien autour d'elles. C'est donc tout naturellement que Niels et Tommaso entrent en contact l'un avec l'autre. Commence alors une course-poursuite sur fond de mythe selon lequel 36 Justes veillent sur l'Humanité à travers le monde.Les deux premiers tiers du livre sont accrocheurs, on suit l'enquête avec in... moretérêt, se demandant qui assassine des hommes et des femmes que l'on peut qualifier de bonnes. Et surtout, pourquoi.Mais la dernière partie du livre est inintéressante, longue, dénuée de surprise. On a presque envie de se dire « tout ça pour ça ? Et ensuite ?».
review 2: I selected this book because I found a number of parallels in the structure to a work I'm currently writing. I was interested to see how the author (in this case, two authors working under a single name) handled the information readers need to know to understand the plot points as well as how that information was spread across multiple characters.The first 100 pages were strong enough. But the middle part bogged down in elements that were repetative and, frankly, the devices used by the authors were clunky. I kept reading because I wanted to see how they finished the work and how the devices changed throughout. I can't say I would have kept reading if not for what I might learn about how to handle my own project.I continued on because this was an "instant" bestseller in the authors' country and has received some press in the U.S. because of that. I was interested to see why this became a bestseller, and was surprised whenever I found another of those clunky devices, unnecessary repetition, and poorly executed scenes. Then, the end matter told me what was really up. It seems the authors are both filmmakers in their home country. So the book was a bestseller pretty much because of their fame rather than any quality attributed to the book.Was the plot interesting enough? Yes. But too many of the other elements associated with the book were poorly excuted to support its success. less

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