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Title: The Fifth Angel by Tim Green ISBN: 0-446-53085-9 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: March, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (21 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Death Wish . . . was better
Comment: Jack Ruskin is a man beset with grief. Believing he was/is responsible for the rape and torture of his 15 year old daughter, he becomes an avenging angel, wreaking havoc, anonymous havoc of course, on those pedophiles he finds registered on the Net. Basically he declares war on them, seeking them out on business trips he takes for his law firm, and then executes them.
He finds support from those who circumstantially witness part of his efforts (returning a young girl to the ER he unexpectedly discovered; a police officer who feeds him to the Pittsburgh sex offender registration book; a pedophile's unsympathetic neighbor) we assume because they support his brand of vigilante justice.
The big question is whether he is a hero like the Charles Bronson character of the 70's "Death Wish," or just another psychopath without the horrific sexual baggage.
I believe the novel could have been exponentially better had Tim Green given the reader a real moral decision to make, as is often presented in the novels of Alan Furst or earlier, by Pierre Boulle. Killing criminals loses it's appeal, in the broad sense of plot, along with the tenth grade and Steven Segal movies.
The first 1/2 of the book is well written although the descent into pulp comic book plot and sophmoric dialogue is rapid and all encompassing.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Thriller That Will Capture and Hold a Reader's Interest
Comment: Jack Ruskin is an incredibly successful attorney and devoted father. After his daughter is kidnapped and sexually molested, his intellect becomes the tool of tracking known perverts and eliminating them from society. As he hunts and kills perverts, he ends up being hunted by both Amanda Lee and David McGrew in a thrilling battle of wits and deduction.
In an enthralling tale that reflects today's headlines regarding missing children, author Tim Green has written a book sure to engage the interest of many readers. Here is a well-plotted story with many twists and turns sure to please readers of thrillers.
The moral issue of killing is brought sharply into focus and certainly warrants a thoughtful response by the reader to such a question and premise.
This story is loaded with attention-grabbing detail and locales that reverberate with authenticity and, ultimately, an ending that is pleasing in the completion of many of the complexities of the story. There are descriptions in this novel that are brutally graphic, but appropriate to the story being told.
The Fifth Angel is not a read for the faint-hearted, but worthy of being read by anyone for the solid foundation on which the story is based and told.
Here's a fast-paced and enthralling thriller that dices with the age-old issue of killing. The Fifth Angel is an enjoyable read for the stout-hearted. But, there is graphic violence in this story. It is a story, as modern as today, which should interest any reader that likes thrillers.
Rating: 1
Summary: Move on
Comment: This book was one of the worst thrillers I have ever read and I've read too many to mention. The beginning was somewhat compelling but as it went on it became almost laughable. To believe that anything that happened in the last 100 pages could actually occur in real life is so comical, it's not even funny. Each scene became more unbelievable. It was a Page Turner though.
I couldn't wait to turn those last pages so it would end my suffering.
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Title: The Fourth Perimeter by Tim Green ISBN: 0446612510 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Letter of the Law by Tim Green ISBN: 0446609951 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The First 48 by Tim Green ISBN: 0446531448 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Red Zone by Tim Green ISBN: 0446607568 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Split Second by David Baldacci ISBN: 0446530891 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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