Monday, September 3, 2007

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The Bone Collector - Jeffery Deaver


"Lincoln Rhyme, a leading forensic criminologists in the world, is paralyzed from the neck down, so that lives attached to his bed. When planning suicide receives a call from an old friend: buried in a road train West Side New York found the hand of a man who took a taxi that would never ... its driver was 'Bone Collector'. Only Rhyme can decipher the clues that leaves the intelligent psychopath. The police officer Amelia Sachs will be your arms and legs in a frantic and exciting race to stop the horror. "


Go ahead comment Jeffery Deaver is always an entertaining writer but rarely touches the brilliance, but rather for lack of resources due to lack of literary talent. It can be said with justice that his best find is the creation of an unusual character such as the criminologist Lincoln Rhyme, whose first novel is the one in question. Rhyme is a leading scientist, gifted intellect, self-centered and cold as a fish but also a troubled man, who lives in hell of complete paralysis except for his head and one finger. In "The Bone Collector", the beginning of a journey that now has several novels, Rhyme contact an association pro-euthanasia to end his frustrating existence. However, a strange series of murders thanks to which the police ask advice to postpone a voluntary cause death sentence.

Because you can not perform by itself, Rhyme uses the help of an attractive police officer Amelia Sachs, also beset by his own personal demons, which is responsible for collecting evidence from crime scenes, these scenes being the most interesting novel.

From there, Deaver develops a fast-paced story that leaves no respite until the exciting final and once again demonstrates the skill with which the author develops the action and chase scenes, 100% film, without neglecting other more introspective sequences in which Rhyme is torn between the desire to die, caused by their living situation and, stimulated by the research itself is carried out. Towards the latter part of the novel, this contrast is of particular importance to be intimately connected with the case.

A History of Jeffery Deaver always guarantee a great time entertaining and "The Bone Collector" does not disappoint in that regard. Perhaps where most weakens the author is in the repetition of situations, not only along several of his works but also within the same novels. Also sometimes the character grates Amelia Sachs, a "stunning redhead", former underwear model, an expert on guns and fast cars, in short, looks like a stereotype of FHM magazine. On other sections of the novel also reveals a more complex woman than meets the eye, but I suspect that resources such as arthritis or endorse a self-destructive manias are nothing more than an attempt by the writer to correct the image almost comic heroine who at the start.

Deaver also weakens the dialogues, which are not bad, but irregular and although "The Bone Collector holds a commendable job of documentation, sometimes the desire for Deaver to explain everything that has studied Lastra a topic action is unnecessary or even irritating.

Finally, I would point out the significant presence of secondary accompany Rhyme and Sachs throughout the series to "Letter No. 12", last published novel: on the whole suffered Thom, a nurse at the criminal, the detective Lon Sellitto and Fred Dellray and some characters related to a particular novel that reappear later as a cameo.

DATA BOOK TITLE: "THE BONE COLLECTOR"
Author: Jeffery Deaver
EDITORIAL: SUM OF ARTS
YEAR: 1997
SCORE OF "THE WEB OF ICE "*** (three shots)

Friday, August 24, 2007

Collection Kates Playground

Place of Execution - Val McDermid

PLACE OF PERFORMANCE


" Winter 1963, two teenagers away in Manchester. Soon after, in a remote village of Derbyshire, Alison Carter vanishes, another young girl of thirteen. For the Inspector George Bennett is the beginning of a terribly distressing case: a crime without a corpse, a mystery impenetrable indescibrable between characters whose closely guarded secrets do not come to light until many years later. "

Past and present are de manera magistral en una novela sorprendente. La desaparición de una adolescente en un pueblo aislado y endogámico desenterrará pecados tan aberrantes que sólo una particular clase de justicia será capaz de redimirlos.

La investigación del inspector Bennet resulta improductiva hasta muchos años después, cuando una joven escritora muestra interés por el caso; el regreso al lugar de los hechos traerá consecuencias insospechadas. El conocimiento de nuevos datos sobre el caso provocará un radical cambio de perspectiva en la novela y en los lectores; la brillante resolución final, tan evidente y al mismo tiempo tan inesperada, atará todos los cabos sueltos que la antigua investigación no fue capaz connecting.

Val McDermid is a writer of thrillers that have been awarded several top awards from the detective genre (the Gold Dagger, the Book of the Year the New York Times , etc. .. .) for several of his novels. In this work, his first novel published in English, has been one of the rarest feats which an author can black genre: surprise.
DATA BOOK:
TITLE: "PLACE OF EXECUTION"
AUTHOR: Val McDermid
EDITORIAL: RBA EDITORS
YEAR: 2006
SCORE OF "THE WEB OF ICE": ***** (five shots)

Monday, August 20, 2007

Blueprints For Achest

dark theater - Christopher Fowler





"A London bombing kills octogenarian detective Arthur Bryant. For his partner, John May, his loss means the end of a friendship of more than siglo.Buscando half tracks, May investigates his friend's notes on his first case and soon realizes that the past has returned ... with murderous intent. The representation of Orpheus in hell, decades ago, was the trigger a series of crimes that young detectives dragged into a gruesome mystery. London, then under the yoke of the Great War, trembled before a murderer lurked in its theaters by creating their own macabre drama. Now the incident has become a murderer to kill one of them ... and is ready to kill his partner. "

" The dark theater, belonging to a detective series starring two octogenarian detectives Arthur Bryant and John May, is to provide a new gem in this great sub-genre novels that are murder mystery set in the World War 2. In this case, much of the plot unfolds in the context of a Britain bombed, surrounded by a violence that is both physical and moral. At that time, detectives focusing on two youngsters from very different mood heading for a mysterious police department, the Peculiar Crimes Unit, where he will be confronted with a series of bloody murders in the Palace Theatre during rehearsals of "Orfeo" by Offenbach. The story echoes reverberate in the present, when an old Bryant dies suddenly in a bomb blast.

What makes this work on a recommendation of quality is its composition very wise, subtle blend of disparate elements that eventually fit together to form a unique style. Fowler's prose, between dark humor and even poetry becomes an incentive, by itself, to read the novel. But you can not dismiss the unforgettable portrait of two players, the aforementioned Bryant and May, as charismatic as any lover could dream detective genre. The sections concerning the relationship and the personality of both detectives are wonderful.

As for the story, a sinister farce where nothing is as it seems, is achieved at all times an uneasy atmosphere in which it is almost impossible to guess what happens next. The play of shadows and lighting, interior and exterior, reality and fiction is accompanied by a vivid portrait of the times of war, with the parts set in the past without doubt the best.

The outcome of this splendid novel, it remains to match, as flawless as the rest of the novel and a moment without deviating from the central idea.

Ultimately, Christopher Fowler, an author still little known in these parts, has entered through the front door quality. Published in Spain hopefully the rest of his series on Bryant and May, which reported new cases are resolved in the past by the Peculiar Crimes Unit.

DATA BOOK TITLE: "THE DARK THEATER"
AUTHOR: CHRISTOPHER FOWLER
EDITORIAL: THE IDEAS FACTORY
YEAR: 2006

SCORE "THE WEB OF ICE": *** * (four shots)

Sunday, June 3, 2007

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Without truth there is no journalism

"The journalist has a commitment to the citizens, so their primary obligation to seek the truth." "It's very difficult for information to be completely objective, but what is essential is that it is true." "If you lie even if only in the color of the eyes, the value of information and greatly diminished credibility of the journalist."

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Phrases are repeated by the teachers of the degree in journalism, especially during the first year. And that is the first major premise must have the journalist, his pattern to follow is always searching for the truth. However, there are some, like Stephen Glass, who prefer to violate the ethical principles in order to maintain a high reputation in his own writing, even at the risk of making it means you lose that reputation.
case I am talking about happened in 1998. The prestigious U.S. magazine The New Republic fired in May of that year the journalist Stephen Glass after uncovering a huge scandal magnitude. Glass was discovered after committing several cases of journalistic fraud, specifically in 27 of its 41 articles or works, in which the vast majority of the data was the invention of its author.

Article which led to the discovery called Paradise Hacker, involving an alleged teenage hacker, who was hired to work in a large company having entered into their systems by exposing security weaknesses. It is noteworthy that at the time of starting the shooting on digital journalism, was exactly half digital Forbes.com, who uncover the big lie of Stephen Glass, by reporter Adam Penenberg mainly. The case was later made into a film in 2003 with the film The Shattered , starring Hayden Christensen .


The truth is that the case gives a lack of ethics and journalistic standards in spurts. Perhaps most of the responsibility is of course the author of the farce, he should not have the guts to call themselves a journalist. But the fact remains that the magazine fell into a monumental error, not being able to verify the information provided on any occasion Glass. In any case, a profession that in itself is sometimes accused of dishonesty will make much of a dent scandals of this kind, honest dirty work that they do make many other professionals. And is that your lack of veracity, Glass soiled the name and the image of an institution in American journalism.

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