For the first time in his life, Lindsay sits on the dock. A shootout in which things went wrong, one drink too many, a very young offender dead, a boy sentenced to a wheelchair ... And the police's most famous San Francisco in the eye of the hurricane. Harassed by the media, with the sole support of her lawyer and her old friends and colleagues of many cases Cindy and Claire, Lindsay seeks rest in the small rural town of Half Moon Bay. But the crime seems to go wherever you look, we soon find bodies in the quiet village, bodies slashed suspiciously reminiscent of one of his first cases as a policeman, several years ago. From that moment, the detective faces a double challenge: to defend her career and her dignity on the bench, and defend his life on the streets. We are here
before a clear example of how not to do detective story. This is hardly surprising considering that the author of "Kiss the Girls", "The Along Came a Spider" and "Mary, Mary" is a film writer in the worst sense of the word. His narrative pulls the topic, giving the impression of repeating patterns seen a thousand times since the onset of the first body and the description of the impressions of the protagonist, to the gimmicky-but not cash-final. Patterson made the mistake, once again, to resort to very short chapters, which is evident lack of momentum literary prose simplistic and cumbersome approach bestseller bad gives new meaning to the phrase "lack of pretension." Yes, here is everything: we have a shocking opening scene (perhaps the best novel), a sensational trial, chases, shootings, murderers, psychopaths and the occasional love scene between the protagonist, Lindsay and noviete. Any intention of realism absent. The presentation of the characters is nil, empathy with the reader, zero.
The little good that can be said of the novel is that, due to its shortness and its relentless pace and artificial, not boring.
DATA BOOK TITLE: "JULY 4"
AUTHOR: JAMES PATTERSON
EDITORIAL: Umbriel
YEAR: 2006
SCORE * (ONE SHOT)
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