Review: Crime and manipulation
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 22, 2012
The concept is very what I would call in time with our political era, which doesn't mean it wouldn't apply to manipulations of the same kind in the past. The story starts out very Black Opish and is written in a more descriptive manner than the following chapters. As soon as the reader meets the main character the sound/voice of the writing changes slightly. Which reminds me of the fact that I thought the main characters reaction when it came to his father, especially whilst speaking about him with others, was over the top childish. It didn't gel at all for me for a man of his age. His anger was far too juvenile, then again perhaps he was speaking from his inner child. The plot was interesting and it is probably the exact thing that goes on behind the closed doors of the powerful money makers. A small number of them deciding the fate of whole countries. Sounds sort of familiar. I enjoyed the book, but think that the writer needs to make sure that when creating a plausible scenario it doesn't become implausible due to  dialogues or scenes that are superfluous, but he feels need to be in there to create the triangulation of a story. Enjoyable read. I received a complimentary copy of this book for my review.