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The new book boosts the storytelling acumen onto a new level as Rhyme and Amelia Sachs take on the violent world of Chinese organised crime. Recruited to aid the US government in a highly difficult (and dangerous) task, Rhyme and Amelia succeed in tracking down a cargo ship carrying a group of illegal immigrants along with the sinister human smuggler and killer known as Youling--the Ghost. But the capture of the Ghost goes pear-shaped, and Rhyme and Amelia are launched into a frantic race against time; they must stop the Ghost before he can track down and destroy the surviving families who have gone missing in the cloistered and secretive world of New York City's Chinese community. As 48 hours anxiously tick by, the malevolent criminal ruthlessly hunts the families while his pursuers (aided by a policeman from mainland China) struggle to prevent the carnage. Amelia, meanwhile, has forged a connection with one of the immigrants that may have considerable consequences for t! he relationship with her partner and lover, Lincoln Rhyme.
Needless to say, the tension is ratcheted up as relentlessly as ever (Deaver has few peers in this arena), but it's the new wrinkles that he finds for the quixotic relationship between his two mismatched protagonists that are the wellspring of The Stone Monkey’s forceful appeal.--Barry Forshaw -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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The group's race against time showcases Jeffery Deaver's many talents, particularly intricate plotting, plenty of surprising twists, and breakneck pacing. This is a real standout from a writer whose previous thrillers have earned him a solid following among mystery fans. --Jane Adams -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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However, there are a few things which I don't like. One thing, although minor, is the way the author deals with China. While he is very fair and also educational about Chinese culture and the life of Chinese immigrants, his conception of mainland China is not accurate. It seems to me, as if he had a close Chinese friend as an adviser, who left mainland China some decades ago (and has never returned since), and who is full of antagonism and hatred concerning the communists. It may accommodate the (American) reader, that the US of A are considered as a sort of paradise amongst mainland Chinese, that these people live under abysmal conditions, are constantly suppressed by their regime and so on, but this view is pretty ignorant. Descriptions of China as a land without skyscrapers (because they have not enough elevators?) or rotten, dirty buses is quite ridiculous, considering cities like Shanghai (with one of the highest buildings in the world harbouring the highest hotel in the world), Canton or other southern cities. The Chinese just build a hospital for 1000 SARS patients within a few weeks. The only thing a Chinese immigrant would be impressed about in New York is the high crime rate, not the architecture or public transport.
Whilst these things may be merely irritating to an educated reader, the constant "surprises" in the plot are deeply annoying. Although we know from every Deaver novel, that there will be a hidden villain somewhere amongst the good guys, in this book he goes over the top. As a reader you feel cheated, and the only effect this has, is a constant uncertainty about everybody in the book. This is not good story telling: To introduce a bad guy, turn him into a good guy, introduce a good guy, turn him into the bad guy, have several ambiguous good guys around, who may ultimately be bad guys and vice versa. Instead of following the plot and the forensic evidence (which should be the reason you read this book and not any other thriller), you try to read between the lines to guess, which kind of rabbit Deaver might pull out of the next page.
Bottom line: If you have never read a Deaver book, don't start with this one. If you are a fan of Linc and Amelia, this book will entertain you.
But Deaver should change his strategy in his following books, unless his main intention is to constantly fool his audience, laughing all the way to the bank.
eighter always right or always wrong. The police makes impossible
deductions from stuff they find. Lesen Sie weiter...
Dieses Mal gilt es, einen chinesischen Menschenschmuggler, einen 'snakehead', dingfest... Lesen Sie weiter...
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