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Summary: couldn't put it down
Review: One of the best suspense books I've read in a long time. The chase scenes especially. This book would make a great movie. I would cast Catherine Zeta Jones as Jane, and I'm sure it would be a blockbuster!
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Summary: I'm a fellow who always wants to be in control, but
Review: One of the things I've found so interesting about this series is that this is not a woman whose exploits seem contrived for political correctness. Her confidence, ability and compassion have had the effect on me that I would follow her directions implicitly, and never interfere with her decisions.Written by a man, many women authors could take some cues about how to present a believable and competent woman character.
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Summary: Perry Makes Monster Comeback After Facechangers
Review: Perry is back to his best in this heartstopping suspense. After the drab and disappointing (though still a great book by normal standards)Facechangers. Don't miss this series. The series is at once intelligent and spine chilling, and takes you into worlds most of us have never even dreamed existed. Also for the women out there it will be refreshing to read about a female heroine that is real- not a cookie cutter image. Jane is tough and sensitive, smart yet makes mistakes. The entire series is a real winner!
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Summary: Perry Makes Monster Comeback After Facechangers
Review: Perry is back to his best in this heartstopping suspense. After the drab and disappointing (though still a great book by normal standards)Facechangers. Don't miss this series. The series is at once intelligent and spine chilling, and takes you into worlds most of us have never even dreamed existed. Also for the women out there it will be refreshing to read about a female heroine that is real- not a cookie cutter image. Jane is tough and sensitive, smart yet makes mistakes. The entire series is a real winner!
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Summary: Interesting
Review: This is my first Thomas Perry novel and I really enjoyed it, but to think that the mob would trust one man, or one man's memory, to control all of their money is stretching it a little too much. I would like to read all of the prior Jane Whitefield novels to get to know her a little more (why she does this, where she and her husband met, etc.). Near the end, I just wanted the book to end - the last leg of their trip seemed to go on forever. I will read more of Thomas Perry's books.
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Summary: Not great Perry, but pretty good
Review: This is the last-- and least-- of the Jane Whitefield novels. Enjoyable, but it becomes repetitive. The four novels that preceded this one are better: 5 star reads. And even better are the early Perrys, if you can track them down: Butcher's Boy, Metzger's Dog, Big Fish, and Island. So, by all means read this one, but don't start here: go to the front of the line.
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Summary: Not great Perry, but pretty good
Review: This is the last-- and least-- of the Jane Whitefield novels. Enjoyable, but it becomes repetitive. The four novels that preceded this one are better: 5 star reads. And even better are the early Perrys, if you can track them down: Butcher's Boy, Metzger's Dog, Big Fish, and Island. So, by all means read this one, but don't start here: go to the front of the line.
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Summary: Yet another enjoyable thriller from Perry
Review: This latest Jane Whitefield thriller draws us in quickly to the plight of the "runner", and conveys the hasty way Jane must deal with her own feelings and at the same time hide Rita Shelford from the Mafia dons who think she knows something about their missing money. The characters are superbly developed and leap off of the page. I felt Jane's frustration when confronted and compromised by Rita's youthful skepticism and sense of immortality. Bernie Lupus is skillfully depicted as an aging "relic" of the Mafia's glorious heyday, when everything was face-to-face and personal--now obsolete with the dawn of the computer age. The disposition of the money was brilliantly described and carried out. Even the ins and outs of charitable giving and receiving of donations was very accurate;what a way to ensure that the money couldn't be retrieved by the "big bosses"! I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of this one, as I have all of the Jane Whitefield series. I rated only 4 stars because I felt that this one was a bit rushed--Jane didn't even make her customary sacrifice to the "old ones" for a safe return--for the type of jeopardy in which she found herself. It's fun to root for Jane and hope she'll win at any cost to the "bad guys".
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Summary: First Disappointment With Perry
Review: Thomas Perry has been one of the most reliable authors for me in terms of good page-turning fiction, original characters and inriguing plot-twists that I purchased this book without reading any background info on it. What a disaapointment! The basic plot, while mildly intriguing, is much better suited to a short story than a full novel. As a result, you can almost see stretch marks on the prose as Perry drags his up-to-this book very interesting protagonist through a very predictable and slow-moving plot. My recommendation to readers is to read all his other books (all 4 or 5 star efforts) and don't go near this one. My recommendation to Mr. Perry is to bring back one of the other characters from his previous excellent efforts -- perhaps the Butcher's Boy or Metzger (the cat) and crew.
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Summary: Imaginative story overcomes flaws
Review: Thomas Perry is a very imaginative writer. The character, indeed the whole concept of a guide who helps people hide is unique and therefore interesting to one who spends a lot of time reading suspense and mystery novels. My only complaint is that Jane is too good - the reader never doubts that she will get out of any jam, so the suspense is somewhat deflated. But the writing and the story more than make up for this. As far as the presentation of the Mafia as a powerful, efficient machine, well, just suspend your disbelief and you'll do fine. It's certainly more interesting than the myth of the invincible US military we are subjected to in countless boring novels. I'm looking for more Thomas Perry right now...
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