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Title: Mercury Rising
Author: Ryne Douglas Pearson
Narrator: Joe Morton
Format: Abridged
Length: 3 hrs
Language: English
Release date: 02-23-10
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
Sixteen-year-old autistic savant Simon Lynch is a genius with numbers, capable of unraveling any mathematical problem placed before him. Distant and solitary, he lives in a private world that no one can understand or enter--until he solves the wrong puzzle. Now the brilliant, damaged boy has broken an unbreakable code, and rogue FBI Special Agent Art Jefferson is his only protection against a pathological government security apparatus and the world's most beautiful, deranged killer. For Simon knows secrets that no one must know--and for that he must die.
Members Reviews:
Decent mystery fare...
An autistic child gets a copy of a puzzle the FBI cryptographers planted into a Genius-level magazine. Basically, the kid sees the puzzle, solves it in about a minute, and then does what the puzzle solves into: instructions to call a number listed and tell that he solved the puzzle. When he does, he's targetted for "removal."
Putting the FBI into a tailspin of potential disaster - who is this person who called and cracked the code? And what will the man in charge of what is now a 10 million dollar mistake do to this child? The tension begins to rise... Enter Art Jefferson, who is the one man who might be able to keep this autistic child alive long enough to get him to some sort of safety.
It has a good rising tension throughout, and definitely the last side of tape two is just a race of danger and bullet-dodging and so forth. Very well done. I didn't expect some of the last few twists - though quite a bit of the plot I did see coming - and the ending quite satisfied me. I liked it... though I'd love to know why the book/audiobook FBI agent was a huge black man - and the movie had Bruce Willis. Why do they do that?
Anyway - well worth the time, and the abridgement wasn't half bad. The only real frustration I had was that Joe Morton tried too many accents (his Japanese is borderline offensive stereotype), and that sometimes you were on name overload - there were a lot of characters to this one, and by the nature of abridgement, you didn't get into a lot of their heads. Quite often I was thinking, "Wait, who's this guy again?"
'Nathan
Still as Bad With The New Title
MERCURY RISING by Ryne Douglas Pearson is billed as dramatic suspense. I found it to be otherwise.
The government is worried about the security of its transmissions. As a result, all transmissions go through a coding box. To test the new code a sample is run in certain genius magazines. Enter one Simon, an autistic young man who likes puzzles. He can decode the transmissions with ease. That makes him a target for the agency that has spent millions and assured everyone that the code is unbreakable. When a hit goes wrong a young FBI agent takes up the case and slowly unravels what is going on and tries to protect Simon.
The novel is set mostly in Chicago and is full of that sort of facts an author will use to prove they know the city. Unfortunately they are almost all wrong. Blatant errors ruin the pace of a suspense novel for me. I also find them very irritating. Then, of course, I had trouble reading the book without visualizing the movie trailer. Bruce Willis plays a black man (at least in the book he is black and I see no reason to change it). Simon is sixteen and not nine like in the movie. The Willis character is also not really a hero. He manages to protect the kid for about two days.
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Title: Mercury Rising
Author: Ryne Douglas Pearson
Narrator: Joe Morton
Format: Abridged
Length: 3 hrs
Language: English
Release date: 02-23-10
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
Sixteen-year-old autistic savant Simon Lynch is a genius with numbers, capable of unraveling any mathematical problem placed before him. Distant and solitary, he lives in a private world that no one can understand or enter--until he solves the wrong puzzle. Now the brilliant, damaged boy has broken an unbreakable code, and rogue FBI Special Agent Art Jefferson is his only protection against a pathological government security apparatus and the world's most beautiful, deranged killer. For Simon knows secrets that no one must know--and for that he must die.
Members Reviews:
Decent mystery fare...
An autistic child gets a copy of a puzzle the FBI cryptographers planted into a Genius-level magazine. Basically, the kid sees the puzzle, solves it in about a minute, and then does what the puzzle solves into: instructions to call a number listed and tell that he solved the puzzle. When he does, he's targetted for "removal."
Putting the FBI into a tailspin of potential disaster - who is this person who called and cracked the code? And what will the man in charge of what is now a 10 million dollar mistake do to this child? The tension begins to rise... Enter Art Jefferson, who is the one man who might be able to keep this autistic child alive long enough to get him to some sort of safety.
It has a good rising tension throughout, and definitely the last side of tape two is just a race of danger and bullet-dodging and so forth. Very well done. I didn't expect some of the last few twists - though quite a bit of the plot I did see coming - and the ending quite satisfied me. I liked it... though I'd love to know why the book/audiobook FBI agent was a huge black man - and the movie had Bruce Willis. Why do they do that?
Anyway - well worth the time, and the abridgement wasn't half bad. The only real frustration I had was that Joe Morton tried too many accents (his Japanese is borderline offensive stereotype), and that sometimes you were on name overload - there were a lot of characters to this one, and by the nature of abridgement, you didn't get into a lot of their heads. Quite often I was thinking, "Wait, who's this guy again?"
'Nathan
Still as Bad With The New Title
MERCURY RISING by Ryne Douglas Pearson is billed as dramatic suspense. I found it to be otherwise.
The government is worried about the security of its transmissions. As a result, all transmissions go through a coding box. To test the new code a sample is run in certain genius magazines. Enter one Simon, an autistic young man who likes puzzles. He can decode the transmissions with ease. That makes him a target for the agency that has spent millions and assured everyone that the code is unbreakable. When a hit goes wrong a young FBI agent takes up the case and slowly unravels what is going on and tries to protect Simon.
The novel is set mostly in Chicago and is full of that sort of facts an author will use to prove they know the city. Unfortunately they are almost all wrong. Blatant errors ruin the pace of a suspense novel for me. I also find them very irritating. Then, of course, I had trouble reading the book without visualizing the movie trailer. Bruce Willis plays a black man (at least in the book he is black and I see no reason to change it). Simon is sixteen and not nine like in the movie. The Willis character is also not really a hero. He manages to protect the kid for about two days.