About three weeks ago I accompanied a friend to an English-language bookstore a great Spanish shopping center. While he collected books ordered, I strolled around easily bored and grabbed a book from 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 considers itself to be the oldest continuously functioning democracy in the world ..."
The thriller of an American author therefore played in Switzerland. This was interesting to me, and I bought the bright red thing.
Right from the first page of the book developed a vortex that Prolog even reached literary level. Consistently short chapters not each comprising a half to two pages, so the book is clocked incredibly fast. Each new chapter is connected to a Perspektive- and scene changes, which makes it incredibly exciting. In such perfection I had for the last time at Ruth Rendell's "Do not talk to strangers" admired this narrative technique. Empire persecuted and wove However, not only two narrative strands, but up to seven!
Jonathan Ransom, an American physician who works with his wife for "Doctors Without Borders" in Geneva, it loses by a fatal accident on a ski tour near the Swiss Furga north wall; she suffers a broken leg, he must leave the dense snowstorm to get help, only to finally determine that it has meanwhile trying to move forward and fell into a crevasse ...
The distraught husband travels alone back to the hotel and found among the personal effects of his wife is also a luggage removal order. And so begins the nightmare: (more ...)