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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780312327057
ISBN number: 0312327056
Label: St. Martin's Griffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 560
Printing Date: April 01, 2004
Publishing house: St. Martin's Griffin
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It is May 1943. On the remote island of Bougainville, in the South Pacific, a squad of United States Marines beats their way through the thick jungle. They’ve landed to do battle with the Japanese soldiers on the island, but in short order, they begin to realize that the forbidding battleground holds an ancient secret a hundred times more terrifying than any enemy army---especially when they start finding the bodies.
Flash-forward to July 2008. In the slums---and the skyscrapers---of Boston, a new kind of depraved serial killer is stalking human prey and terrifying the city. The bodies have been found posed and mutilated in bizarre ways that the two police officers in charge of the case have never seen before---and never want to see again. Are the two scenarios connected?
Detectives Jefferson and Brogan have no idea that to solve the biggest case of their careers, their investigation must take them around the world and through time and history---from a mysterious salvaged submarine with a shocking secret, to an inhumane prison where the inmates are even more scared than usual of “the Pit,”and finally back to the beginning: the sinister island in the South Seas where something inhuman has been biding its time
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I have made it a whole 70 pages through this book and I cannot finish it! I have never felt inclined to write a book review before, because I don't really feel any need to share my opinions in most cases, but after reading 70 pages of this book I began shaking my head and wondering how this book ever got published. Yes,it is that bad! When I started this "Novel" I felt like I was reading a Goose Bumps story off my daughters book shelf. Shame on me, Goose Bumps is far more entertaining. The author spends NO time with any character building, just lots of very boring, and very un-frightening and gory deaths. Hmm. I am actually very shocked to see as many good reviews as I did. Now THIS scares me even though the book didn't. Are people really this desperate? Or is the average intelligence of people deteriorating? Did the author write his own reviews? Now we have a real mystery to solve. Cannot and will not finish this book-Off to the used books store for Jinn!
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I write this review hoping to reach Mr. Delaney and, should I have the good fortune, elicit his response (as I have been unable to find ways to reach him via on-line means).
Having just finished reading the hardcover edition of Jinn, I found it a most engrossing story, with just the right combination of elements that us, fans of the genre, have come to enjoy and define as the difference between an original and enjoyable novel (with a concept that will be fresh in our memory for some time, albeit with very poor proof-reading) versus just another published but not quite succefull try.
However, I think Mr. Delaney not only missed an excellent opportunity for plot-development on the under-utilised Panamanian Nurse character, but also seemed (to this reader's opinion) too eager to include elements of Panamá itself (as a country) into the story, that do not contribute to Jinn in any substantial way: A particular kind of T-shirt is not distributed among the poor in the "ghettos" in Panamá (there are no ghettos, per se, in Panamá City, or elsewhere in the country) and the tobacco plantation story-bit would have been slightly more acceptable had the scenario been coffee or sugar cane (tobacco is not a significant crop in the country).
Mr. Delaney does not seem biased towards "diminishing" developing countries, as his straightforward depiction of some marginalized areas in the City of Boston show; however, I have to wonder, why did he choose Panamá for little bits and pieces within his bigger story, when he could have put his passage through the country to much better, interesting and story-enhancing use.
As a matter of fact: What happens with the Panamanian character close to the end of the story? I truly hope it does not appear in some kind of sequel.
Mr. Matthew B.J. Delaney has written what I think is an excellent very first novel (and I am glad to know the industry has rewarded his work on Jinn) and look forward to his forthcoming works.
Ramsés Rodríguez Ferguson
Panamá City, Panamá Central America
ramses@movistar.com.pa
31 December 2007
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I read this in hardback , been looking for another in this genre and as good by this author but so far nada.
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This book had me excited in the beginning and then had me skipping ahead at the end just to get it over with! I loved the start of this book, very cool war scenes, scary thing killing people, even the underwater ocean scene had me spooked, then.... It fell apart. The book started jumping around mid way and then there were flash backs and it never really got back to being as good as it started off being. I was speed reading towards the end so I could read something else. Overall a disappointment.
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This book really had me interested for the very first half. I didnt mind when it changed from a war book to a murder investigation but I did notice many inconsistencies and several things that seemed important just fizzled at the end or were dropped entirely. Seriously, the mysterious Panama guy just becomes pointless at the end. The main bad guy is bumped off in a way that just tosses him aside with no real oomph so that he can be replaced by a "new" villain with only a couple of pages left in the book. I dont mind when a author goes with the non hollywood ending by killing off "good" characters but the last few pages just fizzled and ended so abruptly that I was really cheesed off. This books needs to be rewritten from about the midpoint on to the end.
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