Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | The Escape |
| author | David Baldacci |
| ISBN-10 | 1-455-52125-6 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-455-52125-8 |
| ASIN | B00N4UYXE2 |
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| date | 2020-Feb-23 |
The third book in Baldacci's John Puller series. When his brother Robert unexpectedly escapes from the high security military prison where he serves a life sentence, John Puller, a military investigator, is clearly told to step back and not try to do any investigations of his own, a normal procedure in such a case. However, John is not so sure he can just sit still. And when he's contacted directly from the very top of the command chain and offered to actually do an investigation of his own, he is very sceptical but also somewhat relieved, because he does not need to stay under the radar.
Before long, Puller is more or less forced to team up with Veronica Knox, whose agenda and trustworthyness is not quite clear to him.
Even though it all looks like a rather straight forward escape from a place where escapes should not be possible, there is one troubling bit which does not sum up. With a lot of persistence, gradually a different perspective on things becomes plausible, but very difficult to argue, as this alternative perspective would mean that Robert Puller had been sitting in prison innocently for more than two years...
Baldacci's John Puller series is, in my opinion, not as good as his King and Maxwell series, but still offers good entertainment, is easy to read and not so easy to put away once you started reading.
