The Left-Handed Twin
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The Left-Handed Twin
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Narrated by:
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Joyce Bean
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By:
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Thomas Perry
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Rescue artist Jane Whitefield leads a deadly crime syndicate on a frantic chase with only one winner in this gripping thriller.
Jane Whitefield helps people disappear.
Fleeing desperate situations, Jane's clients come to her for new identities, new lives where they won't be found. And when people need Jane's services, they come to the old house in rural New York where she was raised.
It's there Jane finds Sara, a young woman in serious trouble. Sara's boyfriend found out she had a lover, then made Sara watch as he murdered the man. Acquitted despite Sara's testimony, now he's trying to find her and kill her.
Jane can easily outsmart the boyfriend, but he has new friends: a Russian organized crime brotherhood. On learning Sara is with a tall, dark-haired woman who disappears people, the Russians become incredibly interested. They believe Jane's knowledge of past clients could be worth millions.
So begins a bloodthirsty chase through the north-eastern US, ending up in Maine's Hundred Mile Wilderness. Only one thing is certain: just one party—Jane or her pursuers—will emerge alive.
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First of all, the narration is odd. Very odd. At normal speed it is so fast and gabbled that you're left gasping for breath just listening to it. I slowed it down to x0.9 and, lo, a natural voice appeared. But how natural? Joyce Bean is excellent in the passages of dialogue. Her reading is nuanced and creates clear distinctions between different characters. But where there are long monologues, descriptive passages, or exposition her voice sounds like it is generated artificially. It has that dreary sing-song cadence of computer sampling and lacks an understanding of the writer's intent. It throughly spoils the listen. Was the producer really so cheap that Joyce Bean was hired only to read dialogue and then her sampled voice was used for the rest of the novel? It sure sounds like it. Real amateur-hour stuff, if so. Five stars for the recorded dialogue. One star for the rest.
As for the story itself, this book has all the familiar elements and challenges June faces in her rescues. However, I began to realise after the umpteenth reference back to other books in this series, that this is a Frankenstein's monster of a novel. It is a patchwork of ideas and passages cut out from earlier books in the series. Did Perry actually write this? Or did an unimaginative ghost writer just cut-and-paste then tweak? Either way, it lacks Perry's usual strong finish. Instead, it just tapers out until suddenly there's a 'deus ex machina' rescue and all the many story threads end abruptly. There is also a cheesy crowd-pleasing last scene. That's a bit too manipulative for my taste.
Not Perry's best by a long way.
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