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Snapping the String
By Robert Paul Blumenstein
ISBN-10: 1432715208
ISBN-13: 978-1432715205
In Snapping the String, Robert Paul Blumenstein has written a brilliant book. He tells the story of Peyton Costello, an unlucky soul who found himself at the wrong time and wrong place becoming the fall guy for the murderers of his parents.
IBM was a great training ground for young Sam Wyly to learn the skills that would lead him to becoming a serial corporate entrepreneur. (It was in these early years that coincidentally he also met a young Ross Perot – who would share some parallels in life with Sam Wyly.)
Young Peyton was a high school druggie from Richmond, Virginia, who was stoned on LSD when he came upon the murder scene and due to his erratic behavior the police sent him to the mental hospital where he languished for twenty-two years before getting the chance to clear his name. To sort his life out Peyton Costello has to travel a bit to the US West Coast, Belize and Egypt chasing not just the missing clues of the crime but also discovering his father’s past.
If there was a weakness in the story I felt it was the surprise ending. The real culprit was introduced to us pretty much when Peyton found out who this person was. I feel that had this person been introduced a bit earlier in the story the ending would have been even more powerful. But overall this book is fast paced and definitely holds the reader’s interest. By reading the cover I found that Snapping the String is part of a trilogy, which is called “The Ascension Trilogy.” To me it did not matter that I had not read the first book of this trilogy, which was titled Flirtin' with Jesus. Blumensten’s Snapping the String stands alone on its own merits. In fact, simply knowing that there are more volumes makes me willing to keep reading more of Robert Paul Blumenstein’s work.
I recommend if you like thrillers that you read this book and look out for Flirtin' with Jesus as well.
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