I admit, this post was started immediately with a failure who has sent down the drain the initial idea with which I started to write. My intention, in fact, was to choose one of the many books by Jeffery Deaver, make a brief summary and write my impressions, nothing more banal and predictable, I said.
Grossa my naivety! Choose
not say the title, but also the only criterion by which to decide was an impossible task. I take the first one I read? Bello, no to say, but does not allow me to talk about Lincoln Rhyme, Deaver's character. I opt for the first publishing house that published Sonzogno? Absolutely not, since it is not the most representative work of the author and the same applies to the last. Ok, I choose my favorite holiday and over.
Second large naivete.
Locate my favorite among several of his novels is how to answer the big question: do you want the best dad or mom?
After a while 'that brooded on this thing I decided to abandon the intention to make a "review" and concentrate on work instead on the author. So you will not find in this post summaries or comments varied, but only ten reasons to read Jeffery Deaver.
- His books are Thriller, not yellow or Crime, Thriller, but in the truest sense of the word.
- His writing is pleasant, but also essential. Pages, on average four hundred in the book, are filled with facts and events. Are not, therefore, endless descriptions of the lace curtains that decorate the scene of the crime, nor interminable flights behind the psychology of the baker who sold the loaf to the victim, but "only" a plot that forces throughout the apnea its duration.
- The plots are not only breathtaking, but they are also related to reality, being developed by the author after a careful research and detailed documentation from books, magazines and interviews with experts of the topic.
- In each work, while following the classical scheme of Thriller, addresses a specific topic, well depth, which often goes beyond the skills required during an investigation, but obviously makes the story more engaging. To give some examples: in Deep Blue everything revolves around information technology, it The man disappeared we enter the mysterious world of illusionism; The moon will cold face the fascinating topic of Chinese will The Garden of beasts Deaver opens a window into Nazi Germany, while they tear the devil's we meet with a handwriting expert. Without forgetting the kingdom of Lincoln Rhyme fact of physical evidence, DNA analysis, gas chromatographs, scanning electron microscopes, etc.. perhaps made most famous by Anthony E. Zuiker, the wise guy who created CSI later.
- In realistic stories Deaver no choice but to place real people. Especially in his most "mature" ones from the late 90s, you will not find journalists, lawyers, postal workers or students who improvise Rambo, but that only specialists can do their job very well and that together with all their merits are not ashamed to show their essential flaws.
- The stories are a succession of very little plot twists are predictable and well-structured especially since it does not rain down from the sky without the slightest reason to exist. To make myself understood, its plot twist is not, for example, the unexpected death of someone. Deaver is able to make certain the death of a character at the end of the chapter and instead make it die another and everything so perfectly justifiable in retrospect.
- For the 6 to the end you never know who the real culprit. Guess who does just because he pulled at random and do not personally know anyone who has given me the motivation to its plausible assumptions.
- He created in 1997, Lincoln Rhyme, the quadriplegic more cynical, arrogant, cranky, despotic and intelligent history of literature. Here, too, if you replace a lesion at the fourth cervical vertebra a lame leg and medicine to criminology, there is no one in mind?
- Despite some of his novels are part of a cycle (translated in Italian are those of John Pellam, Lincoln Rhyme, and Kathryn Dance) are all "autostrutturati" and you can read separately without any problem. But who has read them all realize that the author has created all of its U.S., where his characters live, move and, not infrequently, they help with quick consultation or genuine partnership, just as occurs between experts in the real world.
- Deaver is aware that his is a literature of entertainment and we always try to create a pleasant work, reading and, above all, do not regret the time (and money) spent to read.
