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A review by dotorsojak
Death Benefits: A Novel of Suspense by Thomas Perry
3.0
2.9 stars rounded up
I didn't think this was nearly as good as PURSUIT, which I also just read. Not nearly as much killing, which isn't the reason. It's actually kind of refreshing that our protagonists don't kill many people.
One of the things I don't like about the book is actually something that TP does fairly frequently: introduces a character, gives some backstory so that we start to get interested, then kills the character off.
This belongs to the genre of books that introduces an ordinary person, puts him in danger (he is a guy in this case), and then shows how he gets drawn into the mystery and rises to the occasion. There's nothing wrong with this. It's just that our hero is kind of vaguely drawn and not all that interesting. My take anyhow.
Recommended with some reservations.
I didn't think this was nearly as good as PURSUIT, which I also just read. Not nearly as much killing, which isn't the reason. It's actually kind of refreshing that our protagonists don't kill many people.
One of the things I don't like about the book is actually something that TP does fairly frequently: introduces a character, gives some backstory so that we start to get interested, then kills the character off.
This belongs to the genre of books that introduces an ordinary person, puts him in danger (he is a guy in this case), and then shows how he gets drawn into the mystery and rises to the occasion. There's nothing wrong with this. It's just that our hero is kind of vaguely drawn and not all that interesting. My take anyhow.
Recommended with some reservations.