Rules of Deception by Christopher Reich Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Rules of Deception
Book Review: You'll want to read Rules.....
Summary: 5 Stars
Christopher Reich's Rules of Deception is a stupendous read with one twist after another. Rules of Deception contains more suspense that the old movie serials of decades past and
delivers a great story to boot.
Without giving too much a way the protagonist Jonathan Ransom, one of those really nice guys who also happens to be a surgeon working with Doctors Without Borders is pursuing his passion of mountain climbing is the Alps with his wife, Emma. Mountain climbing has tons of risks and with this trip the odds are against Ransom; an avalanche sweeps Emma to her death. Badly shaken Ransom returns to his hotel only to find an envelope delivery awaiting his now dead wife with two claims tickets inside. Using these tickets he finds her secret luggage and the contents reveal that there was a lot more to Emma than he knew. What mayhem follows.
Don't judge this book until you've finished it. Reich provides us with a story that builds as it goes and in the end you'll be glad you stuck with the book. Jonathan eventually reveals himself to be quite the adventurer and engages in wild chases and the use of disguises as he eludes the international manhunt for him.
With characters like Emma's best friend Simone Noiret and Marcus von Daniken, head of the Swiss counterterrorism organization, the story is colorful and engaging. Reich, in the manner of Tom Clancy, is at ease with the incorporation of high tech gadgets into his story and this adds a lot to the suspense.
This is my first Christopher Reich's book but it won't be my last.
I highly recommend Rules of Deception.
Book Review: character over flow
Summary: 2 Stars
Premise is great, to many characters introduced throughout the book. If you like reading backwards to catch up its a decent readBook Review: crazy plot and incomprehensible characters
Summary: 2 Stars
The premise is interesting enough. Noble, attractive doctor (with some strange but convenient former hobbies like bare knuckle bar fights) looses equally attractive wife in mountaineering accident and finds out she led the live of, nobody less than, a female James Bond. But then the plot quickly thickens into a global nuclear-terrorist-infused conspiracy where secret government organizations chase each other in ever increasingly unrealistic ways. Maybe the biggest problem of the novel however is the inexplicable motivations of its characters. Why would the dear doctor go to ridiculous lengths (fighting the police, dueling professional assassins, practically becoming a secret agent himself) just to find out who his fake, misleading and unscrupulous wife worked for? Why would the police and other shadowy figures in the book risk life and limb for the powers that thought out all these crazy operations? Why would they care? Why would we care?Book Review: ripped ffrom the headlines!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a helluva page turner! Christopher Reich has created a contemporary version of the classic espionage thriller, with plot twists that are frightening close to what we see on the news today!! Do yourself a favor and run, don't walk to get RULES OF DECEPTION!Book Review: stereotypes
Summary: 2 Stars
This book is a great thriller and espionage read but I was frustrated by the author's propogating the stereotypes and even his inaccuracies in details language and names. The names he had picked for his 'Iranian' characters were arabic and pakistani (Quitab and Parvez Jin) and Iranians write Farsi/Persian not Arabic. Overall he seemed to foster the typical stereotypes set forth by Hollywood. Might sell well but not responsible!