Syndrome E
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670025787 (067002578X)
Publish date: August 16th 2012
Publisher: Viking Adult
Pages no: 370
Edition language: English
Category:
Science Fiction,
Cultural,
Adult,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Horror,
France,
Suspense
Series: Franck Sharko 0 (#3)
Part of the appeal of "Syndrome E" is that it's hard to classify. It's part police procedural, part Michael Chriton style medical thriller, part docudrama and completely French. It stinks of a gritty, uncompromising, almost fatalistic realism while embracing some on-the-edge-of-credible ideas. It ...
This will be the 3rd version of this review. At first I loved the book, then I hated it, and now I neither love or hate it. In my defense, the book did wax and wane. I was looking for the resolution of the titular [b:Syndrome E|13589136|Syndrome E|Franck Thilliez|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1337...
I wanted to like this book, I really did, but after reading through it, I couldn't help thinking that it's simply a French thriller writer doing what American thriller writers have been doing for years: put two dysfunctional people (preferably cops) in a case with a creepy supernatural-ish twist and...
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