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Der Mann Im Schatten Thriller (2009)

by David Ellis(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

3453434501 (ISBN13: 9783453434509)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Heyne

series

Jason Kolarich

review 1: This book follows the legal trial of a man charged with killing the man who he believes killed and molested his sister. He wants Jason Kolarich a childhood friend out of touch, a man grieving for the loss of his wife and child to defend him. When Kolarich is paid by unusual people who want to keep an eye on him he gets suspicious and feels that more may be at play and begins to look into the murder. Good read.
review 2: It's always fun to be in the hands of a smart protagonist. David Ellis's The Hidden Man shines bright with a flawed hero who's whip sharp and wins the reader over across the gray area which this book's narrative consistently treads. Is Jason Kolarich, Hidden's pompous, athletic, crafty, and broken-down lawyer, maybe a little too smart to be... morelieve sometimes? Likely, but there are so many real moments of brain brawn that you have to admire a guy with the marbles to navigate some of this plot's savage turns and the stones to carry out his machinations credibly. It's a pleasure to watch this guy work--and the same can be said for Ellis, the man pulling the strings. Don't expect lightning and thunder on every page, although there's some subtly great character work here. The Hidden Man gives you just enough in revelation and consistently shows you that everyone on its pages has skin in this game. There are moments when it feels wrong that all these motivations pulling against each other means someone is going to end up with the short end of a pretty gnarly stick. Ellis has some sharp narrative commentary here that is all organic to his characters, almost never getting in the way of the point of all this, the story. The Hidden Man, for all its tension, has a lot of things just under the surface that it's easy to pull away from the book and do some thinking of your own. Maybe that's a titular pun, the reader being the hidden man here, or maybe I'm on about as much sleep as our hero. Regardless, it's a heavy plot that feels oh-so-light, particularly in the second half, as the pieces all come crashing together. It's easy to see that all of them won't fit, and it's an intense show. Recommended for all thriller fans, especially those of the legal persuasion. Readers who want to dip more than a toe into morality will find plenty here to like as well. less

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