Oh, can this man write a thriller!

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	• Death Benefits (SIGNED) Thomas Perry Random House, 2001 average customer review:based on 53 reviews view larger image
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Oh, can this man write a thriller!

Thomas Perry is the writer Grisham, Deaver, Frey, et al, only wish they could be. He has a crisp and lucid style -- never degenerates into the hardboiled (though I quite like that style on occasion) -- and he not only understands the way people act, but what's better, he knows how they REact. John Walker is bit younger, more naive, more conventional than any of Perry's protagonists I can recall, and he is the perfect foil for the cynical, earthy Stillman. Perry has a classic gift for delivering dialogue guaranteed to make me laughingly snort my cup of tea, an example being Stillman's theory that it's the soothing quality of doughnuts that makes the Red Cross foist them off on disaster victims. It's funny because, like so much that's funny, it's partly true. What more can I say? If you don't read this book it's your loss. And when you suddenly discover it in some used bookstore 10 years hence, you'll wonder why you ever resisted in the first place!

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A return to the early Perry

As a fan of Thomas Perry's early books, I enjoy the Jane Whitfield series, but prefer what seems to be a return to his earlier type of stories in Death Benefits. The twists and turns keep you guessing and his wry humor keeps the book entertaining. You begin to feel a bit like Perry's young protoge in the book, behind at first, but anticipating the next turn by the end.

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