
Little, Brown and Company - Little, Brown and Company
Release date: 2008-06-09
Hardcover
Author: Howard Roughan
Fiction, Fiction - Espionage / Thriller, Mystery/Suspense, Fiction / General, Fiction / Suspense, Fiction / Thrillers, Suspense, Thrillers, Problem families, Sailing, Widows




When can you tell that an author has lost all perspective? When he starts franchising his last name faster than a fast food chain? When the entire back cover of his book is a pensive-looking portrait? Or maybe when he just stops trying? Patterson does all three in latest offering, which reads like a failing-grade high school literature assignment and manages to simultaneously bore and insult the reader. What little interest the plot generates is completely lost in the last few chapters, when Patterson abandons any sense of reality in favor of an artificial series of twists that make earlier portions of the book seem like Shakespeare. For an easy beach read with a similar plot (albeit with some humor and two, if not three, dimensional characters), pick up Carl Hiaasan's "Skinny Dip" instead.