Review: Badly plotted, poor characterisation, implausible dialogue, psychologically improbable responses - it's a joke, not a book.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 11 15, 2013
This is comically bad. With the very suspicious number of high reviews of a book with a plot so ludicrous, with characters so unbelievable, and so clumsily edited I can only think that the system is being gamed. This reminds me of the John Locke fiasco. NONE of the plot is believable. Firstly there is no way that TV is live broadcast - it has to have a time loop in place to stop offensive or illegal material being broadcast. Remember Janet Jackson? There is no way that a reward could be paid to a successful killer, anyone involved in trying to would be imprisoned very quickly. As for the technical and forensic aspects, this seems to be written by someone who has watched one or two Police procedural shows but failed to understand them. Cell phones do not need to be answered in order to track them. Maybe they had a tracking "crystal ball" like the one they used to find a surfer on a beach at night. Don't know why they would bother, the idea of the FBI hiring a private citizen on the basis that he could do a job that they couldn't is puerile. There is no way that a radio DJ could deliberately put lives at risk and not immediately end up in a cell. You have to wonder whether this might not have been written by a ten year old kid - it was certainly someone with no concept of reality.