The Devils Eye (Alex Benedict, #4)

Posted on 06 January 2017 by Jack McDevitt

Nebula Award winner Jack McDevitt is the logical heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke Stephen King Interstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict receives a cryptic message asking for help from celebrated writer Vicki Greene, who has been mind wiped She has no memory of her past life, or of her plea for assistance But she has transferred an enormous sum of money to Alex, also without explanation The answers to this mystery lie on the most remote of human worlds, where Alex will uncover a secret connected to a decades old political upheaval, a secret that somebody desperately wants hidden, though the price of that silence is unimaginable Free Read Books The Devils Eye (Alex Benedict, #4) by Jack McDevitt – kino-fada.fr This one took a slightly different turn from the rest of the series, and I think it worked out very well There was a very, very nice horror subplot going on about an actual horror author, and then it becomes the well known mystery space opera I ve gotten to know and love with the rest of the series The suspense was killing me Oh, and the horror ideas were quite nice, too It tur...McDevitt s decision to switch the first person point of view from Alex Benedict A Talent for War to Chase Kolpath makesandsense as the series progresses He is able to paint Benedict as an increasingly enigmatic character I must say that the series is still going from strength to strength despite the rather formulaic approach Fortunately, McDevitt s universe is vast, and his imagined future history so dense that he has a wealth of possibilities to work with.He brings some of thos McDevitt s decision to switch the first person point of view from Alex Benedict A Talent for War to Chase Kolpath makesandsense as the series progresses He is able to paint Benedict as an increasingly enigmatic character I must say that the series is still going from strength to strength despite the rather formulaic approach Fortunately, McDevitt s universe is vast, and his imagined future history so dense that he has a wealth of possibilities to work with.He brings some of those possibilities to bear here I must say he has an interesting approach to Space Specifically the things that can go wrong on such a vast playing field, and how these events affect individual lives The Devil s Eye of the title is no exception Like in the other Benedict titles, things build up slowly until the great reveal Inevitably, it is pretty...Returning from an previous adventure, archaeologist Alex Benedict receives a call from best selling author Vicki Greene, asking for help and saying that everyone is dead Benedict tries to contact Greene, only to find she s undergone a full personality wipe but only after she transferred two million credits into his account Alex is intrigued and begins to trace the last journey Greene took and to discover whatever drov...Slow going for the first third of this novel, partially because of my unfamiliarity with the characters Mcdevitt had previously introduced in earlier novels However, the later half of the novel made up for it Mcdevitt s prose is of an age , which to his credit means he does not have to resort to R or X rated lit candy to attract his readers No American Psycho in McDevitt s playbook, which is refreshi...The strongest book in the series yet.The switch to Chase as narrator is now a permanent fixture in the series, even though the series carries Benedict s name, we now only hear about him though her, it s a nice change to have a female protagonist in a classic sci fi story.The story still evolves around a classic mystery novel theme, but the background story here a far ri...Fourth in the Amystery series featuring interstellar antiquities dealer, Alex Benedict, and his pilot assistant Chase Kolpath Returning from a trip to Earth, Alex is greeted by a mysterious message from a famous horror author begging him to help her because the others are all dead Problem is when he finally tracks the author down, she had a voluntary mindwipe and left no hints of her problem Determined to earn the large cash deposit left in his bank account, Alex begins trying to unravel wh Fourth in the Amystery series featuring interstellar antiquities dealer, Alex Benedict, and his pilot assistant Chase Kolpath Returning from a trip to Earth, Alex is greeted by a mysterious message from a famous horror author begging him to help her because the others are all dead Problem is when he finally tracks the author down, she had a voluntary mindwipe and left no hints of her problem Determined to earn the large cash deposit left in his bank account, Alex begins trying to unravel what happened.FINALThe mystery for this was intri...Different from the other Alex Benedict Chase Kolpath books I ve read previously I m a bit perturbed that this series is still referred to as the Alex Benedict books, because only the first was written from his viewpoint, and frequently Benedict has been not muchthan a somewhat eccentric sidekick to narrator Kolpath Usually Benedict has picked up a hint of the whereabouts of some major historical artifact, or an untouched cache of objects from an ancient star faring race, or some other i Different from the other Alex Benedict Chase Kolpath books I ve read previously I m a bit perturbed that this series is still referred to as the Alex Benedict books, because only the first was written from his viewpoint, and frequently Benedict has been not muchthan a somewhat eccentric sidekick to narrator Kolpath Usually Benedict has picked up a hint of the whereabouts of some major historical artifact, or an untouched cache of objects from an ancient star faring race, or some other irresistably fabulous potential score, and he and Kolpath go haring off after it, untangling various mysteries in the process In The Devil s Eye, the mystery is the main story why a celebrated horror writer would pay Benedict a huge sum of money, with no explanation, and immediately thereafter have her ent...After a long summer holiday of minding a seven year old, my CFS afflicted brain isn t up to much He s back at school now, but that just means my body has finally let itself collapse for a while.This means I m struggling to read and flitting around between books at a rapid pace as I try to find something I can stick with.I ve always enjoyed the Alex Benedict books and their blend of SF and mystery and so I decided to give this one a try The first half is typical for the series and Chase and Ale After a long summer holiday of minding a seven year old, my CFS afflicted brain isn t up to much He s back at school now, but that just means my body has finally let itself collapse for a while.This means I m struggling to read and flitting around between books at a rapid pace as I try to find something I can stick with.I ve always enjoyed the Alex Benedict books and their blend of SF and mystery and so I decided to give this one a try The first half is typ...Wow, I really liked this one It s a novel in the Alex Benedict Chase Kolpath series, but Chase is far and away the star in this one Archaeology takes a back seat to contemporary mystery, but politics and cultural relations are also examined Alex and Chase set off to discover what happened to Vicki Greene, a famous horror fiction writer, and each chapter is headed by an excerpt from one of her books Along the way there are lots of interstellar adventures, cosmic disaster, political intrigue, Wow, I really liked this one It s a novel in the Alex Benedict Chase Kolpath series, but Chase is far and away the star in this one Archaeology takes a back seat to contemporary mystery, but politics and cultural relations are also examined Alex and Chase set off to discover what happened to Vicki Greene, a famous horror fiction writer, and each chapter is headed by an excerpt from one of her books Along the way there are lots of interstellar adventures, cosmic disaster, po...This was my first Jack McDevitt novel, and I m looking forward to readingFar future, galactic civilization setting for detective novels in which the main character is a dealer in art and artifacts Not hard sci f...

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06 January 2017

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