With this suggestive title, Glenn Cooper has been a successful literary debut that every writer hopes. The archaeologist and physician born in New York chaired a biotechnology company in New England as well as being writer and producer, but literature was his passion. The surprise has come when it has sold over a million copies of his debut, and this is translated into thirty languages, what his hobby as a writer now occupies most of their time and professional.
The story, though riddled with flashbacks, begins in the Big Apple at the present time. New York is frightened by a mysterious threat. In recent weeks there have been eight murders apparently interconnected, but with an overwhelming track that brings to mind a bloody mass murderer. All the victims in the days before his death, have received strange postcards where the date of his death next to the grotesque picture of a coffin.
The investigation of crimes is assigned to Will Piper, one of the most renowned specialists from the FBI in multiple murders. But Piper, turn around and numerous personal problems, not willingly receive the mandate to investigate the murderer of Judgement, a name coined by the tabloids, a few months ahead of their final withdrawal. Circumstances force him to take the case of no good anyway, symptoms worsen when he met Nancy Lipinski, the rookie agent to be his partner thereafter.
Parallel to this plot is quite another, situated in the distant eighth century. The author uses flashbacks to dive correctly at the Abbey of Vectis, where unexplainable events begin to happen. Octavus, a poor illiterate boy who weighs about an ancient curse being the seventh son born of a seventh son, starts writing a list of names and dates with no apparent sense. The monks who welcome you begin to feel the fear when a death in his abbey, matching all the data appearing on the list of children.
Back to the present day, the police investigation will take a surprise for Will Paper channels, which require you to consider certain matters in your life. The implacable murderer continues its crimes and Will have to figure out their connection to the past to catch the murderer in the future. The Piper fears and worries, and even their relationships with friends and family, will force you to look at things differently, not trust anyone, as the only way to achieve their goals.
A thriller set back from the normal fees, but with key elements that have made him pull himself to the list of best selling books, also in our country. The party that unfolds in the eighth century is reminiscent of other famous works, evoking medieval novels Ken Follett or the fantastic recreation of Umberto Eco in his abbey of "The Name of the Rose." The pace drops something in these chapters, but is grateful for a little rest before the hectic rhythm of the main plot.
The author does not use tricks disproportionate, or tries to probe deeply the concept of literature. It shows a direct language, simple and easy to read, calling for the ductility of the frames, which will fit like a glove until a final result that is assumed from previous chapters, although the twists of the second half of the book help not to lose interest. The dialogues are fluid and support the development of history, also helping to portray the main characters, although some features may sound a topical in the genre in which the plot unfolds.
An intelligent novel that forces us to consider our true destiny, facing always free will. An absorbing story woven of twigs needed to follow a storyline full of scientific and mystical connotations. Mysteries hidden by governments throughout history, personal adventures that would make the contrast with all known and even the unexpected appearance of characters mixed with multiple personality problems, make this novel a healthy exercise of entertainment with which to enjoy reading.
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