The synopsis brings you way too far into the story.

WARNING: Do not read the back cover of the book. It's the perfect beach/travel book, but be sure to bring another because you will devour this in a day or two.

The Big Picture is really good, and if you like suspense novels, you really really have to read this. So, like my friend from Glasgow, I am joining the crusade on this side of the pond to expose this guy to anyone who will listen. In the UK, it seems he has a bit of a cult following. There was only one point near the end that seemed just a tad far-fetched, but that didn't sway my feelings for this one bit.ĭouglas Kennedy is a virtual unknown here. Like I said, it was a great story, and all the characters felt very real. It was torture putting it down when I had to, and while I was reading it, I was just burning through it. Like Scott Smith, Douglas Kennedy has the gift of creating a compulsive read. It was a fantastic story, told from the 1st person perspective of Ben Bradford, a successful but unfulfilled Wall Street Trusts fund lawyer. The reason this guy had recommended this was that if I liked A Simple Plan, I would surely like this one. So I looked at my bookshelf, and there it was. I was fighting a nasty virus (a long story, stemming from an infected tooth), and didn't feel like going out to buy another book.

Lesson learned: never let one review throw you off.Īnyways, last week I had picked up Down River by John Hart and was so disappointed in it that I dropped it after 80 pages. I don't know why I never picked it up, but I must have read a lukewarm review for it somewhere that had turned me off it. The book ended up sitting on my shelf for nine years. So, I jotted it down on my to-read list, and it was about a year later that I stumbled upon it in a used book store and walked out with it and a few other lucky finds. In fact, he had admitted to confronting complete strangers in bookstores and insisting they read it. Back in 2002, I receive an email from a visitor to my website imploring me to read The Big Picture.

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