The Escape (John Puller Series) Hardcover – November 18, 2014 Author: Visit Amazon’s David Baldacci Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1455521191 | Format: PDF, EPUB
The Escape – November 18, 2014
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- Series: John Puller Series
- Hardcover: 480 pages
- Publisher: Grand Central Publishing; 1 edition (November 18, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1455521191
- ISBN-13: 978-1455521197
- Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.5 x 9.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #223 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #9 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers & Suspense > Military
David Baldacci returns again this year with an exciting thriller, the third of his series featuring John Puller, a former war hero who is one of the best military investigators in the US Army’s Criminal Investigative Division. This time Puller is faced with one of the most dangerous and controversial cases of his career – to find a maximum security prisoner from the Leavenworth Military Prison who has made a miraculous escape and left an unknown dead body in his cell. The case is controversial because the escapee is Puller’s elder brother Bobby who was convicted by a military court of serious national security crimes.
The first couple of chapters about how the escape happened set the scene for an absorbing and exciting chase to work out how and why the escape happened and to find and arrest Bobby. What is surprising is that a trio of top military brass ask Puller to find his brother and bring him back for justice especially as Bobby has an almost eidetic memory of important military secrets. Puller soon finds that the whole thing reeks of conspiracy at the highest level with possible overseas influence within the security agencies of the US. Also he is soon not sure if Bobby was actually guilty of the crimes for which he was imprisoned.
Puller is normally a loner but he is forced to work with enigmatic (and of course attractive) US intelligence officer, Captain Veronica Knox who he has problems trusting. Of course she has problems trusting Puller, especially about how he will react when they finally hunt down his brother. The plot has many twists and turns and is great reading. As with other recent Baldacci thrillers the plot sometimes verges on the unbelievable but this time it doesn’t go over the believability barrier too much.
David Baldacci is a terrific storyteller and obviously a phenomenally successful author. He also happens to be a terrific guy who has used his success to support/establish charities. I had the chance to meet him when he traveled overseas to do book events on U.S. military bases in Europe. I have a lot of respect for him because I saw firsthand how he interacted with our military personnel and dependents.
Which is why it’s difficult for me to write a negative review for THE ESCAPE. But I don’t have a choice. This is not an attack on the author – it’s simply not a good book.
I like the book’s premise. Puller is a military investigator. His father is a military legend. His brother is a former soldier in a military prison for treason. Now his brother escapes from prison and Puller must track him down. That’s good – and I wish the book had stuck with that premise. But it morphed into a hundred other things, and the result was a convoluted mess.
I also thought the dialogue was terrible. It felt like the publishers went to print with an early draft of the book. On one page, Puller is yelling at Knox (the female he’s been teamed up with unwittingly to track his brother) that he can’t trust her because maybe she’s a spy, or maybe she has a secret agenda, or maybe a dozen other things … and then two pages later, Puller is all “Knox I’m on board with you, I trust you one hundred percent” … and then two pages later, “I can’t trust you!” … and two pages after that, “I’ll tell you everything because I trust you.”
It’s like a bad soap opera except it doesn’t end. It just goes on and on.
Then we go from a prison escape, to investigating why his brother was in prison to begin with, to conspiracy theories with bad guys who aren’t scary, just laughable.
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