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 | Deliver Us from Evil |
| author | David Baldacci |
| ISBN-10 | 0-446-56407-9 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-446-56407-6 |
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| date | 2022-Nov-27 |
There are some references to the first book in Baldacci's Shaw series (The Whole Truth), but this second book of the series can be read without knowing what happened in the first book; it is a story of its own.
Shaw is good at his job, which is bringing very bad and highly dangerous people to justice. The means to do so are not always strictly legal. This time Shaw has to catch a highly successful Canadian businessman called Waller. Waller is active in human trafficking, but that's not why he should be brought down; it's his new business venture. At the same time another organization is targeting Waller, too, for something yet different. Both, the organization Shaw is with and the other organization, without knowing about each other, plan to get to Waller in the same place at around the same time. Of course, that makes things complicated. However, it is not the only complication.
As usual for Baldacci's books, it is well and clearly written with lots of short chapters. Some cruel passages are spelled out quite descriptively. In general, I like the books by David Baldacci. But all together, I found this book not to be on par with the majority of his books I have read sofar.
