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 | No Man's Land |
| author | David Baldacci |
| ISBN-10 | 1-478-92057-2 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-478-92057-1 |
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| date | 2020-Mar-12 |
The fourth book in Baldacci's John Puller series. While not required to enjoy the book, it does help having read the previous books. It helps to understand the condition of Puller's father and the relation between Puller and Knox.
John Puller, a top notch army investigator, again is up against forces much more resourceful than him and he is doing the investigation on his own, without any official backup by the army. After all, it is an investigation he does for himself and he is not supposed to be doing. It's all about the sudden disappearance of his mother. The case was never solved, but with new allegations from a dying woman and some new evidence, Puller is determined to find out what really happened that night, thirty years ago.
The investigation is not only difficult. And somebody seems to become nervous about what could be discovered because pretty soon anyone trying to look into the matter is being stonewalled by some forces that be.
The chapters in this book are short and plenty. It is told from two different perspectives, from John Puller's side and from Paul Rogers side and, as expected from the very beginning, somewhen the two trails of the story mix together and become one. The language is not too difficult and tension is kept high, lots of things happening. However, there are just too many events, coincidences and timings which are rather unlikely, too many characters which come too close to superhero. Baldacci's John Puller series is sometimes compared to Lee Child's Jack Reacher series. Yes, there definitely are similarities. Jack Reacher's adventures are the more credible ones.
