U No detective story that "balance" about Opus Dei, "that can make a good topic. The fact that this organization in a cassock or tie comes to take legal action against the publisher of the novel for defamation against the author for complicity, it certainly creates publicity for the novel in question. But this is not necessarily a guarantee of quality fiction.
Opus Dei attacked 999 Camino of Catherine Fradier (published after the moon, collection Moons wan, 2007, 396 pages, ISBN 978-2 -35227-037-9) after I had read the book, so this is not an attack on Opus Dei against this novel that made me read it. I made the purchase of books by selling advertising to another argument, the stamp "Price SNCF French thriller - 8th edition. As I did not read, so far, the least polar awarded during the 7 previous editions of this award, I'm tempted by this one. What do you want, everyone has weaknesses.
Camino With 999 , we tread in the footsteps of Carla Montalban, group leader at the Crime Squad of Lyon, for a survey thorny on murders whose ramifications go back into the blackness quite secular and not spiritual and religious political machines. The underside of the case are already murderous torturous, and roots burrow into the glorious past not of France and Spain in the 1970s: the Case Matesa, political and financial scandal, background of succession between the dictator Franco and the future King Juan Carlos and rivalry for influence between the Falange and Opus Dei. But Catherine
Fradier felt obliged to add in the sauce quite thick already, taking Carla Montalban in the web family matters related to these shenanigans there. The sauce becomes indigestible, the strings too big, and my interest almost too tenuous.
Much of the book, however, held me spellbound through a sustained narrative pace, a very pleasant writing style, and characters which the author was able to give depth. But I found myself stuck in this story, passed from generation to tortuous almost transparent when the final is clear to the reader while it remains roughly a third of the book to discover. For a moment I allowed myself to hope that these tricks are too big that were false leads (too big, too) struck me with a better final surprise. But no. The final was very one I had guessed.
I think I would have preferred a bleak end to this half-fireworks marshmallow. The subject seemed to win everyone something more poignant, even tragic. This 999 Camino me like a sprint in which the rider, believed to have already won race as he moved his arms and legs, collapsed, panting, a few meters from the line.
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For the record, point out that Opus Dei has lost its legal action against the publisher and the author of the novel at trial and on appeal. For more details, read this post then .
As I said, it does not give this novel an additional quality, but it's still a good place for freedom of imagination of authors and publishers.
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