A little disappointing. (har, har)Emerson's stories and writing style are somewhat derivative of other top rated crime and suspense authors.In this tale, Private Eye, Thomas Black, is nearly killed by a bomb that went off in a school gymnasium. After almost bleeding to death, he spends days in a near delerious, surrealistic state before being released to mourn his wife's death in a mysterious plane crash.It is then he begins to experience wierd events relating to his wife and others as well as himself. He becomes a target but manages to survive, solve the puzzle and experience a happy ending, a too neat and slightly unbelievable one.As I implied above, after a while I thought, I may have already read this book or one very much like it. Still, I'm glad I did finish it. I think it would be almost to describe my feelings about this book without revealing spoilers, so needless to say I'm checking the "contains spoilers" ticky-box.I did like this book, although it took me to some uncomfortable places. I'm not sure that the conspiracy-theory wielding brothers were the author's way of making his reader think more about the world around them, or whether he was just using it as a plot device. Either way, it did make a little uncomfortable about how rarely I look behind the headlines at what is really going on in the world. Sure, I read the news and do my best to understand it, but when you only have so many media outlets, and they're all saying pretty much the same thing, how do you know if you're getting the whole story? That's Thomas's dilemma, and mine as well. Who do you believe, and how much should you really trust them?I did find the first part of the book a little disorienting, and in the beginning I didn't see why this was necessary. As we delved deeper into what happened to Kathy I began to understand the reasoning behind author's choice. Thomas's confusion and pain were so much more real and palpable this way.I'd probably give this book 3.5 stars if that was an option. I liked it, but I didn't quite "really like it."
What do You think about Cape Disappointment (2009)?
Thomas Black returns, only to see Kathy go down on a Senator’s flight. Except she didn’t. Good.
—HannahP
New author. Very suspenseful story. I'll read more of his books
—viviana
it was suspenseful at first, but the ending disappointed me.
—skrishnan
I loved this book; couldn't put it down?
—sstewart76
