Talk about books you can’t put down. I literally read this book in one sitting. I had to call in sick to work to accomplish it, but I got it done. This is a well paced spine tingling thrill ride. I was half way through the book before I realized there were no chapters to be seen anywhere. This of course is a tension building device, not allowing the reader a natural pause in the story telling, but the author pulls it off to great effect.
Don’t confuse this excellent work of fiction with the very crappy movie by the same name. It is an old cliche that the book is always better than the movie. But in this instance the disparity is so great watching the movie actually damages the reading experience by very clumsily forcing pictures in your head that replace the ones so carefully placed there by the author. Stay very far away from it.
This is the sort of book that hearing too much about the story from the beginning tends to ruin the experience. Four friends are on vacation in Mexico. They decide to help a German vacationer look for his brother at an archeological dig where he’s shacked up with a girl. It goes from there. Enjoy.
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