Eclipse
by Richard North Patterson
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Author: Richard North PattersonEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-09-01
ISBN: 0312946384
Number of pages: 560
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
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Book Review: If Only Your Eyes Could Keep Up with Your Brain
Summary: 5 Stars
I've long been a fan of Richard North Patterson's. How can you be a lover of Thrillers and not be? Though I've sometimes found him wearing his politics on his sleeve, he's never, ever, not once let me down storywise. Mr. Patterson knows how to weave a web of suspense. He knows how to get your pulse pumping as your fingers itch to turn the page, if only your eyes could keep up with your brain, his stories are so good.
Characters, that's what makes fiction. Characters you love, hate or only like a little, but at all times characters you believe in. Sometimes you may want to shout at them, cajole them, warn them as you fear for them. Those kind of characters not just anybody can create. Mr. Patterson peoples his stories with people like that, with people so real you feel as if they live in your neighborhood, on your block, next door even. You get to know Patterson's people. You can't help it, that's how good he is.
I was living in Trinidad and Vesta and I were glued to the BBC during Ken Sara-Wiwa's last days. He was a man and Vesta and I cried when he died. That he was framed I have no doubt. This story is loosely based on what happened then, though it takes place in the present. This story will put you into the heart of African darkness and leave you looking into your soul every time you pump gas. That people die so soccer mom's can get the gang to the game on time is something we seldom think about, a truth we don't want to know. Sometimes the truth hurts, sometimes it should.
Summary of Eclipse
Damon Pierce is a gifted California lawyer whose work is starting to seem soulless. Then, from out of nowhere, two life-altering events take place: First, Damon?s wife announces that she?s leaving him. Next: A woman from his past reappears. Damon could never forget Marissa Brand Okari, his one-time great love. Now, she?s in trouble?and Damon decides to do everything in his power to help her.
Marissa?s husband, Bobby Okari, is a freedom fighter in a corrupt west African nation?one that?s being torn apart by global lust for its vast supply of oil. One day, during a solar eclipse, Bobby leads a high-profile protest rally against an American oil company?only to see everyone in his home village massacred by government troops. Already an enemy of the country?s savage dictator, Bobby is promptly arrested. Now it?s up to Damon to take on Bobby?s case and save him?and Marissa?from almost certain death. And risk his own life in process.
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