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Throughout the first third of this book, I was convinced it would be among my favorites, but then it got a bit too outlandish. The story combines anthropology and science fiction to rewrite human history, and the result is fascinating. The plot slows toward the middle of the book, as if Becker wasn’t able to sustain the wildly imaginative pace of the beginning, but still, if you enjoyed Jurassic Park, the Indiana Jones movies, Total Recall, Sphere, etc., you’ll find something to like in Link.
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Hiaasen has a way of doing awful things to characters, like having a Shriner get tangled up in the tentacles of a Portuguese man-of-war, without making it seem like such a bad thing. This book follows a theme of Hiassen’s, in which the bad guys are planning to bulldoze or pave some tiny remaining unblemished aspect of Florida’s native ecosystem, and the good guys go to astounding lengths to stop them. It’s a pro-ecology book dressed up like a thriller, and like all of Hiassen’s books, it’s tough to put down.
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This book was enjoyable to read, but perhaps more enjoyable to finish. It’s a heavyweight (700 pg) murder mystery, changing locales from New England to Rome to Cairo along the way. Gifford apparently spent nine years researching this book, and the result spins enough threads together to make that believable. If you like piecing a large story together over time, this book is for you.
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Starring Woods’ most familiar character, Stone Barrington, Dead in the Water is a memorable thriller set in the Carribean islands. Part mystery, part courtroom drama, this book is a quick, enjoyable read, with a nice twist at the end.
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This is a typically hilarious Hiaasen romp. If you’ve never read him, start here… but save yourself some shipping (or extra trips to the bookstore) and pick up the rest of his novels too. You’re going to read them all anyway.
Skin Tight tells the story of a corrupt plastic surgeon amid a cast of lunatics. The dialog is clever, the timing impeccable, and the characters are unforgettable. The story is pure Hiaasen — not really a murder-mystery, not really a true-crime story, not really a comedy, but somehow all three: a breezy, darkly comic page-turner where the bad guys nearly always get exactly what they deserve.
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