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Title: Hard News

Subtitle: Rune, Book 3

Author: Jeffery Deaver

Narrator: Lorelei King

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-19-06

Publisher: Hodder Headline Limited

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Fulls of twists and turns, and with a incredibly engaging central character, this is classic Deaver.

Critic Reviews:

"Deaver's background as a journalist helps him to vivify the competitive, even back-stabbing caste system of network news and to successfully depict the tedium as well as the excitement a reporter experiences when breaking a major story. He writes with clarity, compassion and intelligence, and with a decidedly human and contemporary slant." (Publisher's Weekly)

"Peerless entertainment for those who like 'em gaudy, manic, and totally awesome." (Kirkus Reviews)

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

read in 1 day

This book is a mixed bag

The story in this book is very interesting, and moves very well, until the last part. The descriptions are good, the dialogue is good, and the writing just flows. That can't be an accident or a one time lucky thing.

I cannot understand why a superb writer like this gets tired of his own book before it's finished. There must have been a deadline that was too short or something of the sort. At a certain stage of the action, and I mean right in the middle of some action, there suddenly comes a spate of explanations from one "goodguy" character who's holding a gun on two "badguy" characters, with the main character in the room also. Background and past actions are quickly described by this savior as if in a hurried summary. He's just doing a monologue, it seems. I don't think that would happen in real life. It was very distracting in a book I was really enjoying.

I hope to try another Deaver book, because I believe he's a good writer. I hope.

Great

He's a top notch writer, love all his works!

Don't bother

Even if a Deaver fan, and I've enjoyed some of his later works, this trilogy is hard to get behind. Very unfathomable heroine. How this bubble-headed young woman gets out of jam after jam just gets mind-boggling. Decided to buy all three and read back-to-back. Well, it was a commitment I couldn't wait to get through.

Disappointing

I am a Deaver fan, but this book did not hold my interest. The storyline dragged and there was no suspense.