Rules of Deception
About three weeks ago I accompanied a friend in an English-Spanish bookstore of a large shopping center. While he collected books ordered, I strolled around easily bored and grabbed a book off the shelf: RULES OF DECEPTION (Rules of Deception) by Christopher Reich, an American author.
I opened it and read: "Switzerland was founded in 1291 and regards itself as the oldest continuously functioning democracy in the world ..."
The thriller of an American author that is played in Switzerland. That seemed interesting, and I bought the bright red thing.
Right from the first page of the book developed a vortex that prolog achieved even literary level. Consistently short chapters each comprising no more a half to two pages, so the book is cycled incredibly fast. Each new chapter is connected with a change of scene and perspective, which makes it extremely exciting. In such perfection, I had admired this narrative technique for the last time with Ruth Rendell's "Do not talk to strangers". Empire pursued weaving and not just two narrative threads, but up to seven!
Jonathan Ransom, an American physician who works with his wife for "Doctors without Borders" in Geneva, loses it by a fatal accident at a ski tour near the Swiss Furga north face, she suffered a broken leg, he must leave in the thick snow to get help, only to finally determine that it has in the meantime is trying to move on and has fallen into a crevasse ...
The distraught husband goes back alone to the hotel and found among the personal belongings of his wife also have a baggage claim ticket. And so begins the nightmare: (more ...)
