Review: Actually 4.5
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 19, 2014
An enjoyable thriller about a man who can read facial expressions. Really well.Yeah, it sounds a bit like that TV show, but actually it's much better. Well written lines - for example "I respected the fact that his eyebrows alone were better communicators than most cab drivers around these parts." "after 30 minutes of walking and thinking, something finally struck him. It wasn't so much of an idea, more of a ...bat."A bit of a dig against western society and our obsession with fashions and brands, and the plausible power of multinational corporations and over reaching spy agencies combined to make is an entertaining read.A few twists I didn't see coming, and a few I did, kept the story racing to its conclusion. The discovery of the real bad guy and the end action was something I didn't expect at all.The only reasons I haven't given this book five stars are minor Kindle version formatting flaws - text drops into blockquotes for no reason, then back to normal, which upset my obsessiveness, and the clever lines dropped off towards the end - not that the writing was at all poor.