Fidelity
Harcourt - Harcourt
Release date: 2008-05-12
Hardcover
Author: Thomas Perry
Mystery And Suspense Fiction, Fiction, Fiction - Espionage / Thriller, Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General, Fiction / Suspense, Fiction / Thrillers, Suspense, Thrillers, Mystery & Detective - General, Crimes against, Husbands, Private investigators, Widows
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Fidelity
Date undefinedI honestly don't know why I bothered finishing this book. It started collapsing in the first chapter. Perry was absolutely committed to destroying the plot, assassinating the credibility of his characters, and giving prose a bad name. According to one reviewer Perry is a master of the "runaway narrative." I'd say that just about sums it up. I'd run away from this one as fast as your feet can take you.
Fidelity
Date undefinedThis was a really bad book. I would not recommend it to anyone unless someone gives it to you for free.
I skipped over huge portions of it because it was so boring. The characters were underdeveloped, shallow, and there was certainly no suspence.
Worst of all, the reader is suppose to feel sorry for the killer and be happy that he could live happily ever after with just a little remorse for a robbery, but nothing for the murders he cold-bloodly committed. How absurd!
Fidelity
Date undefinedI've read everything Tom Perry has written since the inaugural Butcher's Boy and I keep reading him because of his clever writing style and his careful grasp of the procedural, whether the procedure is hiding people or finding people or just killing them expertly. But the final mystery of Fidelity, once revealed, is so preposterous that I almost stopped reading. We are expected to believe that skilled private eye Kramer was hired by a rich psycho to find and return his runaway "daughter" and that Kramer never bothered to confirm that his client actually had a daughter, never consulted other law enforcement for leads, and when he found the "daughter," failed to discover that she was actually an underage girl his client had been bonking. Perry gives the impression of having lost his way in the plot and going to desperate measures to tie up loose ends.
