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I honestly cannot think of another writing tandem that I admire more than Preston & Child. These dudes can weave a story and write a good book. Not once have they ever failed to entertain my brain...not once.
White Fire is yet another installment in a long line of novels protagonized (I made this word up...I like it so fuck you if you don't)
by Special Agent Aloysious Pendergast. Forget all those other detectives in those other stories written by those other authors...Pendergast is the real deal (he's the shit!). That crippled detective in the Jeff Deaver novels don't have anything on Preston & Child's guy. Pendergast is smooth, calm, forceful, and never afraid to get whatever he needs to get the case solved. He's that lone wolf, whatever-it-takes kind of character. I dig him.
Anyway, in White Fire Pendergast's protegee Corrie Swanson is doing some research in a posh ski town in Colorado. Far from her home in New York, Corrie has to make do with the research and find cooperative individuals in town to help. Not an easy task. Anyway, she starts snooping around and finding out interesting tidbits that hide kind of a seedy underbelly of the town. Then large mansions start a-burning. Corrie soon realizes something totally fucked is going on and eventually finds herself in jail.
In swoops Pendergast from parts unknown to help his protegee out of a jam. The Special Agent is wiling to help but the newly free Corrie wants to go it alone. Pendergast wants her to pack it all up and go home. Frustration betwixt the two.
Anyway, there are lots of fires, lots of conspiracies pondered, and killers/arsonists tracked down and killed...the usual for a book of this ilk.
But, Preston and Child really do write a good book. It's well written: very smooth, keeps a decent pace throughout, and they throw in interesting plot twists that keep you guessing just enough but not enough to throw you from the main plot. They're good.
Anyway, White Fire may not be the best Preston & Child book with Pendergast as protagonist. But, it's not the worst of the lot, either. Two Graves, their previous effort, was a little weak, for example.
The verdict: Read it. You'll plow through it in no time. Guaranteed.
I honestly cannot think of another writing tandem that I admire more than Preston & Child. These dudes can weave a story and write a good book. Not once have they ever failed to entertain my brain...not once.
White Fire is yet another installment in a long line of novels protagonized (I made this word up...I like it so fuck you if you don't)
by Special Agent Aloysious Pendergast. Forget all those other detectives in those other stories written by those other authors...Pendergast is the real deal (he's the shit!). That crippled detective in the Jeff Deaver novels don't have anything on Preston & Child's guy. Pendergast is smooth, calm, forceful, and never afraid to get whatever he needs to get the case solved. He's that lone wolf, whatever-it-takes kind of character. I dig him.
Anyway, in White Fire Pendergast's protegee Corrie Swanson is doing some research in a posh ski town in Colorado. Far from her home in New York, Corrie has to make do with the research and find cooperative individuals in town to help. Not an easy task. Anyway, she starts snooping around and finding out interesting tidbits that hide kind of a seedy underbelly of the town. Then large mansions start a-burning. Corrie soon realizes something totally fucked is going on and eventually finds herself in jail.
In swoops Pendergast from parts unknown to help his protegee out of a jam. The Special Agent is wiling to help but the newly free Corrie wants to go it alone. Pendergast wants her to pack it all up and go home. Frustration betwixt the two.Anyway, there are lots of fires, lots of conspiracies pondered, and killers/arsonists tracked down and killed...the usual for a book of this ilk.
But, Preston and Child really do write a good book. It's well written: very smooth, keeps a decent pace throughout, and they throw in interesting plot twists that keep you guessing just enough but not enough to throw you from the main plot. They're good.
Anyway, White Fire may not be the best Preston & Child book with Pendergast as protagonist. But, it's not the worst of the lot, either. Two Graves, their previous effort, was a little weak, for example.
The verdict: Read it. You'll plow through it in no time. Guaranteed.
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