Last novel of our favorite of the moment: yes, but ...
Ellory is an author who has most excited lately. In these two novels translated into French (we talked about including here), he revisited the thriller to give a deeper insight, one might almost say more literary, with a mixture of dark melancholy, cruelty and appalling In the case of Vendetta, an original rereading of the history of the United States. The dark side, from the shadow of human, horrible, cruel but literarily built. Suffice to say they looked forward to the release of a new novel. But our expectations are often very hard to please and same goes for books ...
The Anonymous appears more like a thriller. A series of murders linked by a violent and frightening procedure, a cop at the end of the roll, a race to the index, etc.. But besides the traditional ingredients of the genre, Ellory able to quickly add a political dimension and reconnect with one of its flagship themes: creating a monster. The investigation of chip advance by jumps, interspersed with the Confessions of fragments of a man, maybe the killer. This parallel story eventually join the investigation to bounce-like large-scale political scandal.
Both say right away, The Anonymous is an excellent thriller that works fully, are avidly devoured. And yet, I expected better. Less depth than in previous novels, a certain sense of déjà-lu (argued that CIA agents are not all choirboys, that's not very original ...), a first portion sometimes slightly laborious (with all twenty pages a sort of rehearsal useless to the inventory of the survey). John Robbey, the villain of the story, may well be a rather well built, it does not have the same size as the anti-hero "elloriens.
So a bit of disappointment but will not prevent me eagerly awaiting the next. Even in view
Emerald .
To end on a high note: an interview with the author directed by BOB .
Ellory is an author who has most excited lately. In these two novels translated into French (we talked about including here), he revisited the thriller to give a deeper insight, one might almost say more literary, with a mixture of dark melancholy, cruelty and appalling In the case of Vendetta, an original rereading of the history of the United States. The dark side, from the shadow of human, horrible, cruel but literarily built. Suffice to say they looked forward to the release of a new novel. But our expectations are often very hard to please and same goes for books ... The Anonymous appears more like a thriller. A series of murders linked by a violent and frightening procedure, a cop at the end of the roll, a race to the index, etc.. But besides the traditional ingredients of the genre, Ellory able to quickly add a political dimension and reconnect with one of its flagship themes: creating a monster. The investigation of chip advance by jumps, interspersed with the Confessions of fragments of a man, maybe the killer. This parallel story eventually join the investigation to bounce-like large-scale political scandal.
Both say right away, The Anonymous is an excellent thriller that works fully, are avidly devoured. And yet, I expected better. Less depth than in previous novels, a certain sense of déjà-lu (argued that CIA agents are not all choirboys, that's not very original ...), a first portion sometimes slightly laborious (with all twenty pages a sort of rehearsal useless to the inventory of the survey). John Robbey, the villain of the story, may well be a rather well built, it does not have the same size as the anti-hero "elloriens.
So a bit of disappointment but will not prevent me eagerly awaiting the next. Even in view
Emerald .
To end on a high note: an interview with the author directed by BOB .
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