Review: Another Deaver masterpiece.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 11, 2013
I loved this short collection of stories. Jeffery Deaver is a master story teller and no matter how hard I try he keeps surprising me. This ebook is a collection of three original short stories and each one is suspenseful, thrilling, and engaging from the very beginning.In the first story, Fast, Kathryn Dance is back to try her hand at stopping a terrorist bombing with only a few hours to get it done. Using Kinesics she has to get information form a suspect who is cool and firm in the beliefs of his cause. He has no tells in his body language Kathryn can use to tell when he is lying and time is running out to get the location of the bomb. Such a heart pounding ride from the very beginning that didn't let up till the very last seconds.The second story Game is about a very wealthy woman who has gone missing and is assumed dead. Her caring housekeeper pays a private detective to find where her body is because she wants to say good bye to her employer and friend. I thought I finally had Deaver figured out on this one. I have been reading his work for a very long time and I thought I finally had the ending wrapped up and I was thinking just like Deaver. I was wrong again; even though I had a few details figured out early on I was completely proven wrong by the end of the story. Deaver continues to impress with his mastery of the twist ending.The final story Paradice, brings back one of Deaver's early characters John Pellam. Pellam is a location scout for Hollywood and seems to not only find amazing landscapes, but also a good bit of trouble every where he goes. Crashing into a small town he is being questions about a murder that occurred around a location he wanted to use in a movie. The town sheriff believes he is telling the truth but seems suspicious of him since he isn't part of the town. Pellam gets pulled into searching for this killer to save his own life, being the outsider can be detrimental to ones freedom in small towns.All of these stories are very well written and can be enjoyed by anyone with spare time, and enjoys a great suspense thrill ride. This is currently only available in ebook format, but this and a story set to release in April will be part of a larger collection of short stories coming later this year. So if you don't have a Kindle or Nook, don't worry, they will be in print this year and I would encourage everyone to pick up the collection, just to read these amazing stories.