Title: Beat the reaper
Author: Josh Bazell
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Copyright: 2009
ISBN: 978-0-316-03222-3
Series or stand-alone: Stand-alone
Setting: Manhattan, NY
1st Sentence:
So I'm on my way to work and I stop to watch a pigeon fight a rat in the snow, and some fuckhead tries to mug me!
Comments:
This was a strange book and nearly a month later and I'm still at war with myself as to whether or not I truly liked it.
Peter Brown, aka Pietro Brwna, used to be a hitman for the mob. Killing people - bad people, lots of people. Then one day he went into the WITSEC program and emerged as Peter Brown, doctor. When a patient at the hospital recognizes him for who he once was, the race is on...to stay alive.
Like I said, it was strange. I liked it, I didn't love it, I made it through it, but I'm not sure I'd put it on my top 10 or even top 25 list for the year.
Maybe I'll like the movie better.
2 comments:
THAT was an awesome first line!
Hi Holly,
I agree. It is a great first sentence. My reservations were about the rest of the book. It definitely requires a great deal of suspension of disbelief. Usually I read first sentences before deciding to read a book and this one snagged me. I don't regret reading it; I just found it rather strange. If you read it, let me know what you think.
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