The Maze - Nelson DeMille
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Publication Date: Oct. 11, 2022
This is the eighth in the John Corey series. Since Nelson DeMille is such a popular, best selling author and I hadn’t read any of his books since Plum Island, the first John Corey installment, I wanted to read The Maze.
John Corey is retired from the NYPD due to being wounded in action and has worked for several federal agencies since. Now relaxing at his uncle’s house on the north shore of Long Island, he is approached by a former girlfriend and the local chief of police, a longtime friend, and encouraged to take a job with a private investigation firm. He wants no part of the job, but realizes there must be something more to this request and takes the position on a temporary basis to investigate just what is going on. Is this agency tied to the deaths of at least nine prostitutes in the area? And just what are some of the local police and politicians doing attending lewd “Thirsty Thursday” events at the agency?
I was really put off by the main character. Told from a first person POV, John does have a very funny, sarcastic sense of humor, but his misogynist, adolescent behavior and remarks made him insufferable. Oh, and he thinks he is the gods gift to women. The story dragged. It took to almost the halfway point for the plot to be revealed and nearly to the end for anything to really occur. A lot of time was spent with endless talk about what he was going to do and only in the last chapter did the reader see some action, albeit a bit unrealistic. There really wasn’t much of a mystery and it wasn’t fully resolved.
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