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Blood Count (2011)

by Robert Goddard(Favorite Author)

3.53 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0593065093 (ISBN13: 9780593065099)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Bantam Press

review 1: I should have known I'd made a mistake when I encountered the sentence about a character's sweet perfume, with 'a tang of decay, of death, hovering behind it', but I was on a 4 hour bus trip and thus desperate. The writing is terrible, and the plot is interesting enough though highly implausible and the writing just isn't convincing - a good writer can make you believe anything. This felt like a cheap Hollywood blockbuster that is so lazy that any excitement is to left to the reader to conjure up themselves. Don't bother, there are other great mystery thrillers by Jo Nesbø or Scott Turow that are worth your time.
review 2: Goddard has been writing potboilers for decades and, for some reason, I continue to read them. his books are the sort which win the WH Smit... moreh "Thumping Good Read" Award. Which means there's no good looking in them for deep meaning, wonderful prose or profound insight. Instead, you get an everyman made victim to a conspiracy and which he must puzzle out to save himself. In Blood Count, it's a surgeon who performed a liver transplant on a Serbian warlord who is now under trial at the International Court of Justice. The warlord's daughter blackmails the surgeon into approaching the warlord's ex-accountant as he has control of the family's ill-gotten gains. But it's all a plot within a plot within a plot, and people get murdered and the warlord escapes and... Goddard's books are fast, entertaining reads, and this one, I have to admit, was one of his better ones. less

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