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El Paciente (2014)

by Juan Gomez-Jurado(Favorite Author)

4.06 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Planeta

review 1: Closely following in the footsteps of the ‘race-against-time’ thrillers of Linwood Barclay and Harlan Coben comes The Tipping Point, originally published in Spanish as ‘El Paciente’. You know the score- kidnapped child whose fate rests on the actions of distressed parent and so on, and to be honest my tipping point, “every human being has a boundary between the comfort zone of their hopes and fears, and the quicksand of their wishes and needs,” arrived quite early on, despite an intriguing enough opening. The pace of the plot is satisfying enough and the grand puppet-master, the mysterious Mr White, who is pulling all the strings for our hapless neurologist, works well enough as a typical baddie. There is a slightly ludicrous side-story involving the profession... moreal rivalry of David and a former colleague that did irritate me somewhat, but the general medical details of the mystery of neuroscience was engaging enough. However, maybe due to my having read several similar books, I did find my concentration wandering afar, and unusually, for a book dubbed as a gripping thriller, it was all too easy to move away from it and be reluctant to return. It’s one of those books that would make a pleasing enough film thriller with a stolid male lead, but generally I was a little underwhelmed. Having said that, however, if your enthusiasm for the Barclay/Coben niche is still intact, this thriller may tick all the right boxes for you…
review 2: 8/10. Estupenda novela que se lee de una sentada y mantiene el interés todo el tiempo. De argumento parecido al de la serie Rehenes: Secuestran a la hija del cirujano que va a operar al presidente de los EEUU para que lo mate en la mesa de operaciones. El cirujano, viudo para más señas, tiene una hermana que trabaja en el servicio secreto que intentará ayudarle. Muy recomendable y es mucho mejor que la serie de marras. less

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