This one is a sequel to Camino Island, one different from the usual genre of the author, and here he returns halfway to his field of murders, contract killers, and an industry with inhuman malpractice that takes toll on lives and for huge profits too. This time, it's the seedy underbelly of nursing homes, with patients of dementia and Alzheimer's, and a pharmaceutical lab in China that stumbled on a drug prolonging lives of precisely those patients that are unable to do anything - the drug induces nausea and blindness as it keeps a bare minimal heartbeat of the patient fed on tubes and completely bedridden, so the nursing home makes millions per patient with lives stretched on.
Halfway, because the fresh factors of the previous one are some retained, the island and the bookstore and the authors and the publishing business, along with the gang and the parties; the fresh part is the hurricanes. The book begins with one, goes through its wayward path until arrival, it's havoc and aftermath, and finishes with talk of another. And to make it a heart thumping end, has another possible siren introduced at the end, even as one responsible for various contract killings is in custody, so one might just wonder if it's all going to unravel.
Throughout, there is a menacing atmosphere hanging pretty much like a hurricane over the story, the theme being it's dangerous to expose scams even via novels instead of research books. Rodham has written very little that wasn't about exposing scams of some industry, u less it's about justice system itself, so one has to wonder, was this book a two pronged one, exposing the nursing home industry and pharmaceutical industries along with China on one hand, while alerting other authors to dangers of being targeted by the said industries via contract killers, as Grisham might have been?
It's an easy read and a on the whole a pleasure, but for a serious thorn.
In Camino Island one saw Bruce Cable not only deal in stolen manuscripts but hoodwink the FBI and extract millions from those seeking the return of the manuscripts, with glib reasoning about his being not strictly illegal since he hadn't stolen them, after all, and having paid for them, and keeping them safe. Not only that, he all but forced a seduction of the young writer Mercer Mann, roughly half his age, knowing she was employed by investigators to get close to him to find out about the manuscripts; he then proceeded to accuse her subsequently of having chested him, and abuse her, which she not only put up with but asked about his forgiving her. All this while he's married.
In this sequel Grisham steps one back, with Bruce repeatedly telling the story but making it clear he's aware he was outside legal boundaries. But then, he accuses a pair of executives - of the agency that had set Mercer after him for manuscripts - of causing death of a young woman, afyer hiring them in the first place for tracking down the killers of his friend the author who wrote exposing the scam.
What one does notice is that in each case, with Mercer as well as the executives of the agency, he's accusing and abusing women.
Shame, Grisham, not because they are women, but because it's crystal clear that they would receive very different accolades from him if they were hefty males like himself.
Halfway, because the fresh factors of the previous one are some retained, the island and the bookstore and the authors and the publishing business, along with the gang and the parties; the fresh part is the hurricanes. The book begins with one, goes through its wayward path until arrival, it's havoc and aftermath, and finishes with talk of another. And to make it a heart thumping end, has another possible siren introduced at the end, even as one responsible for various contract killings is in custody, so one might just wonder if it's all going to unravel.
Throughout, there is a menacing atmosphere hanging pretty much like a hurricane over the story, the theme being it's dangerous to expose scams even via novels instead of research books. Rodham has written very little that wasn't about exposing scams of some industry, u less it's about justice system itself, so one has to wonder, was this book a two pronged one, exposing the nursing home industry and pharmaceutical industries along with China on one hand, while alerting other authors to dangers of being targeted by the said industries via contract killers, as Grisham might have been?
It's an easy read and a on the whole a pleasure, but for a serious thorn.
In Camino Island one saw Bruce Cable not only deal in stolen manuscripts but hoodwink the FBI and extract millions from those seeking the return of the manuscripts, with glib reasoning about his being not strictly illegal since he hadn't stolen them, after all, and having paid for them, and keeping them safe. Not only that, he all but forced a seduction of the young writer Mercer Mann, roughly half his age, knowing she was employed by investigators to get close to him to find out about the manuscripts; he then proceeded to accuse her subsequently of having chested him, and abuse her, which she not only put up with but asked about his forgiving her. All this while he's married.
In this sequel Grisham steps one back, with Bruce repeatedly telling the story but making it clear he's aware he was outside legal boundaries. But then, he accuses a pair of executives - of the agency that had set Mercer after him for manuscripts - of causing death of a young woman, afyer hiring them in the first place for tracking down the killers of his friend the author who wrote exposing the scam.
What one does notice is that in each case, with Mercer as well as the executives of the agency, he's accusing and abusing women.
Shame, Grisham, not because they are women, but because it's crystal clear that they would receive very different accolades from him if they were hefty males like himself.
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April 28, 2020 -
May 21, 2020 - May 24, 2020.
eBook ISBN 978 1 529 34247 5
April 28, 2020 -
May 21, 2020 - May 24, 2020.
eBook ISBN 978 1 529 34247 5
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