Death Match
by Lincoln Child
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Author: Lincoln ChildEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-31
ISBN: 0307275566
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Anchor
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Book Review: Gripping, with some plot holes (review has spoilers)
Summary: 4 Stars
I listened to the audiobook version, well read by Barrett Whitener.
Mr. Child's ability to generate unputdownable pageturners is beyond any reasonable dispute, whether he's writing by himself or with Douglas Preston. I stayed up way too late listening to events unfold and trying to solve the mystery. The plot is absorbing and suspenseful. I am grateful that Mr. Child knows that the past tense of "spring" is "sprang"!
I do have a few quibbles, though, which I offer mainly for Mr. Child if he happens to read readers' comments on Amazon.com.
*** SPOILERS FOLLOW ***
*** STOP READING HERE UNLESS YOU WANT ADVANCE INSIGHTS INTO THE PLOT ***
1. Why would Lash seemingly forget about Karen Wilner's last words and go off in an inconsistent direction?
2. How could Lash, an intelligent man, fail to connect his personal logistical problems with events at Eden?
3. I was able to figure out Liza's role and motivations midway through the novel. It's a tribute to its suspenseful qualities that I had no problem listening to the rest of it.
4. How could all of those analytical and naturally skeptical people be so easily conned by the framing of Lash? They would only have had to send detectives to one Flagstaff motel to find out that Lash had been set up.
5. It doesn't work for Edwin Mauchly to be ordering Lash to be killed. That's simply murder, and few people on earth are willing to murder for a corporation. This has always been my problem with James Bond movies, too, much as I like them: underlings are willing to kill and even be killed simply to carry out someone else's grand design, presumably for mere compensation.
6. Also, once Mauchly does this, he's guilty of attempted murder and conspiracy to murder and one loses all ability to relate to him in any positive sense. He should have been prosecuted and imprisoned. Same for the subalterns firing shots at Lash.
7. A big corporation like Eden would know it cannot falsely imprison its employees or administer truth serum to them. It might be able to question them, but if they refused, it could only fire them.
8. The initial $100,000 consulting fee Eden offered Lash seemed rather paltry and I thought it odd that he was thrilled by it. The final compensation Eden offered Lash, another $100,000, seemed laughably low given what the corporation had subjected him to. This is New York, not Bhopal! Realistically, Eden would have arranged to pay Lash millions for negligence, perhaps through its insurers, and millions more out of its own funds for intentional misconduct.
9. When things are burning, where are the sprinklers and fire extinguishers? I doubt anyone can avoid the requirements of the New York City building code, which is said to be stringent.
Despite these quibbles, my hat is off to Child. I am in the embarrassing position of offering a critique, knowing full well that I could never write a novel of this quality.
Summary of Death Match
Everyone?s looking for the perfect match, a life-long partner, and Lewis and Lindsay Thorpe have found theirs, thanks to hi-tech matchmaker Eden Inc. But when the happy couple?s life together ends in what looks like a double suicide, Eden Inc. has some explaining to do. So they hire forensic psychologist Christopher Lash to figure out what went wrong. And then another perfect match ends in death...Literature & Fiction Books
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