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 | sleeping dogs |
| author | Thomas Perry |
| ISBN-10 | 0-804-11160-X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-804-11160-7 |
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| date | 2009-Dec-13 |
Michael Schaeffer appears. Out of nowhere. Nobody knows him. And he stays. He's a nondescript, average guy and the only thing which one could possibly see as out of the common is that he seems not to have any past. At least he never talks about anything that was before he came to Bath, England.
Ten years later his girlfriend, the Honourable Meg drags him along to a horse race in Brighton. And there the dogs that have been sleeping for the past ten years wake up again. Two people get killed and an attempt at Micahel's life is made too. All of a sudden he is thrown back into his old life with full force. Schaeffer vanishes on a 'business trip' back to the US. His business? Clean up the mess so he can live in peace again. He is still good, one of the best, at doing what he was doing in earlier days, but there are obstacles now, which he never had to consider before. It's not only the mob which is after him now, but also the FBI...
The whole story is well told and surely worth reading, although the book was not keeping me up till late at night because I couldn't wait to see what was going to happen next. A few times going on to the next paragraph felt like I had skipped some pages; new environment, new people. However, things started to fit into the big picture again after a couple of more paragraphs.
