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Bad Twin
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Bad Twin -- a slickly marketed tie-in novel to ABC's hit television show Lost that is being touted as the last novel written by a popular mystery writer who disappeared on Oceanic Flight 815 -- is a terrific pulp noir mystery. While the novel's plotline (a struggling New York City private eye accepts a lucrative assignment to track down a real estate magnate's wayward identical twin, only to be sucked into an unfathomably deep conspiracy) has no obvious links to the television show, there are countless tantalizing references throughout that will have hard-core fans of Lost speculating for months. (For example, the wealthy man looking for his brother is named Clifford Widmore, and a prominent organization renting space in his flagship building is the Hanso Foundation.) There are numerous references to John Locke, numerology, and purgatory, which many fans have speculated is actually where the show is set: The characters are all dead and working their way toward redemption. An anagram for the fictional author Gary Troup is, by the way, Purgatory.
Bad Twin is intimately connected to Lost, but it is also a highly entertaining whodunit reminiscent of timeless noir gems by masters like Ed McBain, Donald E. Westlake, and Lawrence Block. Fans of the television show will devour this novel, as will any mystery fan who can get past the obvious marketing tie-in. Paul Goat Allen
Bad Twin -- a slickly marketed tie-in novel to ABC's hit television show Lost that is being touted as the last novel written by a popular mystery writer who disappeared on Oceanic Flight 815 -- is a terrific pulp noir mystery. While the novel's plotline (a struggling New York City private eye accepts a lucrative assignment to track down a real estate magnate's wayward identical twin, only to be sucked into an unfathomably deep conspiracy) has no obvious links to the television show, there are countless tantalizing references throughout that will have hard-core fans of Lost speculating for months. (For example, the wealthy man looking for his brother is named Clifford Widmore, and a prominent organization renting space in his flagship building is the Hanso Foundation.) There are numerous references to John Locke, numerology, and purgatory, which many fans have speculated is actually where the show is set: The characters are all dead and working their way toward redemption. An anagram for the fictional author Gary Troup is, by the way, Purgatory.
Bad Twin is intimately connected to Lost, but it is also a highly entertaining whodunit reminiscent of timeless noir gems by masters like Ed McBain, Donald E. Westlake, and Lawrence Block. Fans of the television show will devour this novel, as will any mystery fan who can get past the obvious marketing tie-in. Paul Goat Allen
258 pages, Hardcover
First published May 2, 2006
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August 13, 2007
Bad Twin is a bad book. By all literary standards, the novel is a travesty: cliche, overwritten and underwritten in the wrong places with a hackneyed mystery plot involving a private detective searching for a missing twin brother, the titular "bad twin", who happens to be the heir to one of the largest fortunes in the country.
Blah, blah, blah.
None of that matters, as the actual plot of the story is incidental. Bad Twin first made an appearance during Season Two of Lost. It was an unpublished manuscript the crash survivors found in the wreckage and had begun to take turns reading. In a tense moment, Jack Shepherd (the island's resident doctor) burns the last few pages of the manuscript, much to Sawyer's (the resident bad boy) outrage. I wish I were able to let Sawyer know that he isn't missing much. So, Bad Twin is a fake novel written by a fake author in a fake world created for a television show. Why buy it?
Well, the producers of Lost know that the show's fans are a geeky, conspiratorial lot. They'd have to be to keep up with the show's myriad plots and subplots. In order to keep them entertained (and interested in the show) during summer hiatus, the show's producers created The Lost Experience, an alternate reality game (ARG) that is being played in all the countries where Lost airs and involves several mediums including the internet (in the form of a faux Hanso Foundation website, as well as several blogs, websites, discussion boards...), the telephone (a Hanso Foundation phone number that needs to be called for clues), and television (where fake television ads for the Hanso Foundation contain game-related info). And contemporary literature, apparently.
Hyperion Books, a subsidiary of ABC, published Bad Twin as part of the game, going so far as to take out full page ads for it in the voice of game characters and "releasing" interview snippets with the "now deceased" author, Gary Troup (played by Thomas Calabro of Melrose Place fame), on several bookseller sites. The folks at ABC have gone all out to create a detailed alternate universe in which this game can be played, covering all sources of information and media outlets to amusing effect.
I purchased Bad Twin, because it supposedly contained that would be relevant to the game. While certain items were fun to pick out, none of them proved particularly illuminating as far as the game goes. The book also touches on certain themes that the show already covers with a more deft hand. To be fair, there might have been clues that I just missed. However, I think that can be blamed on the weak writing that forced me to skim large chunks. Perhaps if ABC had hired a better ghostwriter, I would have paid closer attention.
So, Bad Twin fails as a novel and as a game piece. It's an all-around failure. And yet.
I bought a copy, and so did 300,000+ other people (according to NeilsenBookscan). Perhaps the point of the book wasn't to be a literary success or to offer enormous insight into the game. Perhaps it was merely another way for ABC to cash in on the success of Lost through merchandising, and by having the worst writer possible - perhaps even writing it by committee in-house - they saved themselves the money that should've gone into quality and increased their profit margin.
If that's the case, then Bad Twin is not only the best book ever written, it is marketing genius.
Blah, blah, blah.
None of that matters, as the actual plot of the story is incidental. Bad Twin first made an appearance during Season Two of Lost. It was an unpublished manuscript the crash survivors found in the wreckage and had begun to take turns reading. In a tense moment, Jack Shepherd (the island's resident doctor) burns the last few pages of the manuscript, much to Sawyer's (the resident bad boy) outrage. I wish I were able to let Sawyer know that he isn't missing much. So, Bad Twin is a fake novel written by a fake author in a fake world created for a television show. Why buy it?
Well, the producers of Lost know that the show's fans are a geeky, conspiratorial lot. They'd have to be to keep up with the show's myriad plots and subplots. In order to keep them entertained (and interested in the show) during summer hiatus, the show's producers created The Lost Experience, an alternate reality game (ARG) that is being played in all the countries where Lost airs and involves several mediums including the internet (in the form of a faux Hanso Foundation website, as well as several blogs, websites, discussion boards...), the telephone (a Hanso Foundation phone number that needs to be called for clues), and television (where fake television ads for the Hanso Foundation contain game-related info). And contemporary literature, apparently.
Hyperion Books, a subsidiary of ABC, published Bad Twin as part of the game, going so far as to take out full page ads for it in the voice of game characters and "releasing" interview snippets with the "now deceased" author, Gary Troup (played by Thomas Calabro of Melrose Place fame), on several bookseller sites. The folks at ABC have gone all out to create a detailed alternate universe in which this game can be played, covering all sources of information and media outlets to amusing effect.
I purchased Bad Twin, because it supposedly contained that would be relevant to the game. While certain items were fun to pick out, none of them proved particularly illuminating as far as the game goes. The book also touches on certain themes that the show already covers with a more deft hand. To be fair, there might have been clues that I just missed. However, I think that can be blamed on the weak writing that forced me to skim large chunks. Perhaps if ABC had hired a better ghostwriter, I would have paid closer attention.
So, Bad Twin fails as a novel and as a game piece. It's an all-around failure. And yet.
I bought a copy, and so did 300,000+ other people (according to NeilsenBookscan). Perhaps the point of the book wasn't to be a literary success or to offer enormous insight into the game. Perhaps it was merely another way for ABC to cash in on the success of Lost through merchandising, and by having the worst writer possible - perhaps even writing it by committee in-house - they saved themselves the money that should've gone into quality and increased their profit margin.
If that's the case, then Bad Twin is not only the best book ever written, it is marketing genius.
April 29, 2008
As long as you don't go into reading BAD TWIN thinking you're going to solve the mysteries of the hit television show Lost, then you should be okay. BAD TWIN, on its own, is an intriguing mystery featuring twin brothers--one a bigwig in the family business, the other a ne're-do-well who has gone missing.
Oh, sure, there are a few references in the actual storyline to make you go "hmmm"--the philosopher John Locke, a trip to Australia aboard an Oceanic flight, the totally hyped numbers showing up as the twin's birthday, and the family name of Widmore. But besides those few basic tidbits, this book won't tell you squat. It really has nothing to do with Lost.
On its own merits, though, it's an engaging mystery that I read in one day, and if Gary Troup was an actual person (which he isn't), and had actually written anything else besides BAD TWIN (which he hasn't), I wouldn't hesitate to read it.
Oh, sure, there are a few references in the actual storyline to make you go "hmmm"--the philosopher John Locke, a trip to Australia aboard an Oceanic flight, the totally hyped numbers showing up as the twin's birthday, and the family name of Widmore. But besides those few basic tidbits, this book won't tell you squat. It really has nothing to do with Lost.
On its own merits, though, it's an engaging mystery that I read in one day, and if Gary Troup was an actual person (which he isn't), and had actually written anything else besides BAD TWIN (which he hasn't), I wouldn't hesitate to read it.
September 20, 2007
Complete and utter crap. Only a vague connection with one of the most brilliant things on TV makes it worth even knowing about, and its revelations about the show, if they even mean anything, probably won't be revealed for another 2 years until the 6th season starts. Aside from a Feb. 2008 start date for the 4th season, reading this was the greatest blister on 2007 (besides war, the economy, politics, pop music, etc).
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June 13, 2025
It was interesting and engaging at first but it went off the rails about halfway through, just becoming more and more unlikely. The ending was a lot of written explanation rather than storytelling,. It started off so well, I was disappointed.
January 6, 2019
So overall, I thought this book was really fun. I am a huge fan of the show Lost and this book is supposed to be the lost manuscript that Sawyer ends up reading. There are some really fun Lost Easter Eggs sprinkled throughout the text, which was really entertaining. I really love that they weren't forced either. The seamless inserts just worked and I really appreciated that. I also love that my home town was mentioned, which does not happen very often so that was a pleasant surprise! The story itself was very much your classic noir/mystery, but it did keep me guessing for some of it. I lost a little bit of interest in the middle of the story and I felt that the character of Pru was added just a little bit too late in the story, but this was a fun and entertaining read. If there wasn't the connection to Lost, I might not have picked it up, but if you have ever watched the show, I recommend it.
January 13, 2025
I’m a little confused by all the hate with this book. Was it because people expected it to be a side story for Lost? Was it all the running around? Was it the actual writing? If anything, it may have felt like a hurried written story but I enjoyed it.
April 7, 2023
This was pretty good. I wasn’t a fan of the romance plot, it felt fake and forced. The twist at the end was pretty good
July 4, 2008
A short, easy to read book that ties in with the LOST Experience.
What more can I say? To review or give my thoughts on the book alone kinda misses the point. But Goodreads is a site for books….not LOST junkies. (grin) And I feel compelled to offer my two cents on the book alone...sort of....
My overall rating sums up fairly accurately how I feel about Bad Twin...it was, well...okay. I guess.
It’s not a strongly written book that draws you in from the first word and doesn’t let you go until you are literally falling asleep at 2AM (or until you’ve finished it). Unless, of course, you are a LOST fanatic who reads every word looking for hidden meanings or clues that the author has cleverly concealed from the casual reader.
Not a book full of incredibly alive characters that jump off the pages of the book and live in your head for weeks after finishing it. Although I must admit I kinda dug Manny and enjoyed the memory of his character shuffling around in my brain for a while. We all need someone in our life like Manny don’t we?
Not a book that uses literary devices, word choices and writing techniques in new and surprising ways—keeping the reader engaged on a more stylistic level. It’s pretty straightforward. Thought I was amused by the way the author tossed in “Trent’s Last Case” as the “best detective novel” written and seemed on some level to mimic aspects of it.
Overall I felt it was a simply written book, with a fairly basic detective-type plot line and characters that existed (for the most part) only on the surface.
Did I hate it? Do I consider reading it a waste of my time? Heck no! To me, it has two redeeming features. One, it ties in with LOST. (Enough said.) Two, it introduced me to a new book. I had never heard of “Trent’s Last Case” and I’m always on the lookout for a cleverly written detective story. So I’ll hope that “Trent’s Last Case” is good enough to stand up to my expectations. That alone will make it worth reading “Bad Twin.”
So fingers crossed, and stay tuned!
What more can I say? To review or give my thoughts on the book alone kinda misses the point. But Goodreads is a site for books….not LOST junkies. (grin) And I feel compelled to offer my two cents on the book alone...sort of....
My overall rating sums up fairly accurately how I feel about Bad Twin...it was, well...okay. I guess.
It’s not a strongly written book that draws you in from the first word and doesn’t let you go until you are literally falling asleep at 2AM (or until you’ve finished it). Unless, of course, you are a LOST fanatic who reads every word looking for hidden meanings or clues that the author has cleverly concealed from the casual reader.
Not a book full of incredibly alive characters that jump off the pages of the book and live in your head for weeks after finishing it. Although I must admit I kinda dug Manny and enjoyed the memory of his character shuffling around in my brain for a while. We all need someone in our life like Manny don’t we?
Not a book that uses literary devices, word choices and writing techniques in new and surprising ways—keeping the reader engaged on a more stylistic level. It’s pretty straightforward. Thought I was amused by the way the author tossed in “Trent’s Last Case” as the “best detective novel” written and seemed on some level to mimic aspects of it.
Overall I felt it was a simply written book, with a fairly basic detective-type plot line and characters that existed (for the most part) only on the surface.
Did I hate it? Do I consider reading it a waste of my time? Heck no! To me, it has two redeeming features. One, it ties in with LOST. (Enough said.) Two, it introduced me to a new book. I had never heard of “Trent’s Last Case” and I’m always on the lookout for a cleverly written detective story. So I’ll hope that “Trent’s Last Case” is good enough to stand up to my expectations. That alone will make it worth reading “Bad Twin.”
So fingers crossed, and stay tuned!
August 6, 2016
OK I admit that the only reason I bought this book was due to its tie-in to the ABC's Lost. For those uninitiated into that tie-in, the author Gary Troup exists within the 'Lost' universe as a passenger on Oceanic Flight 815 who is killed on the beach in the opening episode by being sucked into the jet engine. Ick! In Season 2, a draft copy of the novel Bad Twin is featured, specifically being read by Sawyer though the final pages are burnt by Jack.
There was rumoured to be a number of clues within the pages of Bad Twin to some of the secrets within Lost. Whether that is true or not there are a number of cross references within the novel to the show including the Hanso Foundation and the Widmore family. Part of the meta-novel aspects was releasing interviews with Troup (played by an actor) and Lost's fictional Hanso Foundation placed ads in several prominent newspapers disclaiming the portrayal of their organisation in Bad Twin.
Interestingly the only one word anagram for 'Gary Troup' is 'purgatory', which is a theme in the novel and despite the creators' disclaimers is a popular theory attached to Lost.
As to the novel itself - well is an adequate detective thriller but its interest mainly lies in the novelty aspects of its creation/marketing.
There was rumoured to be a number of clues within the pages of Bad Twin to some of the secrets within Lost. Whether that is true or not there are a number of cross references within the novel to the show including the Hanso Foundation and the Widmore family. Part of the meta-novel aspects was releasing interviews with Troup (played by an actor) and Lost's fictional Hanso Foundation placed ads in several prominent newspapers disclaiming the portrayal of their organisation in Bad Twin.
Interestingly the only one word anagram for 'Gary Troup' is 'purgatory', which is a theme in the novel and despite the creators' disclaimers is a popular theory attached to Lost.
As to the novel itself - well is an adequate detective thriller but its interest mainly lies in the novelty aspects of its creation/marketing.
December 11, 2007
This is a weird LOST tie-in book. It doesn't have any characters that appeared on LOST (that we know of) other than the author "Gary Troup" (exploding engine guy) and Cindy, the flight attendant, to whom "Gary's" book is dedicated. It's a mostly unrelated whodunnit. As such, it's perfectly fine. It's a thousand times better than Murder on Capitol Hill, at least.
There are some other LOST references -- we glimpse the Hanso foundation, and Alvar and Mittelwerk are briefly mentioned. I think the biggest relation to LOST is in the references to works of literature, which in the book relate to the unfolding mystery, but really (I think) have more to do with the LOSt story arch.
For instance, the book references Trent's Last Case, a whodunnit where the mystery seems to be completely solved 1/2 way through -- but then it all falls apart and you have to start from scratch. Isn't that just where the end of Season 3 seems to be leaving us? It looks like it's all over but... hey, there's two seasons left to go!
Anyway, if you're suffering from LOST-deprivation, this is a good read. If not, you can find a more worth-while mystery.
There are some other LOST references -- we glimpse the Hanso foundation, and Alvar and Mittelwerk are briefly mentioned. I think the biggest relation to LOST is in the references to works of literature, which in the book relate to the unfolding mystery, but really (I think) have more to do with the LOSt story arch.
For instance, the book references Trent's Last Case, a whodunnit where the mystery seems to be completely solved 1/2 way through -- but then it all falls apart and you have to start from scratch. Isn't that just where the end of Season 3 seems to be leaving us? It looks like it's all over but... hey, there's two seasons left to go!
Anyway, if you're suffering from LOST-deprivation, this is a good read. If not, you can find a more worth-while mystery.
October 19, 2011
If you are picking this up, like me, because you love LOST then STOP RIGHT NOW! This book is just trying to cash in on the Lost fans and it fails miserably both as a crime novel and a series link. There are sad attempts to make it relevant by naming some of the characters in the book with names from Lost which just made it look even more like a cheap piece of rubbish rushed out as a companion to the show. And oh, har har, Oceanic are even mentioned in it! Guffaw Guffaw indeed. If you want a decent thriller pick up Jeffery Deaver or James Patterson instead of this guff.
June 10, 2011
This was pretty entertaining. Just read it because it is on the LOST reading list and there were some fun refrences to LOST. I LOVED how the hero's friend used literature references from many classic books to help him solve his crimes. But, of course, I had to endure profanity. Seriously, if I ever write a book, there won't be a single cuss word in it.
July 14, 2007
one of the good things that came out of the very confusing Lost Experience.
May 2, 2011
book written by one of the writers for TV series "Lost"
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May 29, 2013bad rats
June 13, 2024
A good deal better than its average rating led me to expect. It's not perfect, by any means: for one thing, the protagonist's interactions with women are constructed solely around whether he would or would not sleep with them--this is so consistent as to suggest a failing on the part of the author, not just the character. For another, the story's logic as a tie-in is a bit suspect: this is a fictional work within the world of LOST, and yet LOST characters appear in the narrative--make of that what you will. Nevertheless, it's written with confident if workmanlike prose that actually takes some skill to pull off, and there's a bit of wry flavor here and there that really landed with me:
But if he didn't need the money, why would he? For that matter, absent the need for dough, why did anyone do anything? For glory? Spite? Just to fill the hours? This was one of those profoundly basic questions that people somehow overlooked: why do anything at all? Why not just sit still in a room?
Nothing that was ever going to set the world on fire, perhaps, but well worth the price of admission. The mystery story's not bad, either.
But if he didn't need the money, why would he? For that matter, absent the need for dough, why did anyone do anything? For glory? Spite? Just to fill the hours? This was one of those profoundly basic questions that people somehow overlooked: why do anything at all? Why not just sit still in a room?
Nothing that was ever going to set the world on fire, perhaps, but well worth the price of admission. The mystery story's not bad, either.
January 24, 2025
I went into this knowing that it doesn’t tie-in much with the show and I was okay with that, but I expected a little more from the story. It was a basic mystery of where is this person and who’s trying to kill everyone. There was a couple interesting red herrings that I feel like would have been a bigger twist to the story than what happened.
The characters were fine, except the female characters. Classic male gaze. Only four women are introduced and they all want to sleep with the protagonist. He even sees three of them naked! What are the odds?!
There’s also a love story thrown in the last 50 pages that felt forced and unbelievable and makes the rest of the book drag and kind of fall flat
How does it relate to LOST though? More than I thought. The numbers pop up throughout, the Widmore’s and the Hanzo Foundation are featured prominently, and Hawaii, Australia, and LAX are locations visited in the book. Overall, it was better than I thought, but not by much.
The characters were fine, except the female characters. Classic male gaze. Only four women are introduced and they all want to sleep with the protagonist. He even sees three of them naked! What are the odds?!
There’s also a love story thrown in the last 50 pages that felt forced and unbelievable and makes the rest of the book drag and kind of fall flat
How does it relate to LOST though? More than I thought. The numbers pop up throughout, the Widmore’s and the Hanzo Foundation are featured prominently, and Hawaii, Australia, and LAX are locations visited in the book. Overall, it was better than I thought, but not by much.
August 16, 2024
6.7/10
Looking at it from "just a book" standpoint, it's fine, but not stellar. Pretty standard mystery/thriller fare, nothing super groundbreaking, and the ending is a little rushed and a bit of a logical stretch. But still overall a fun time.
From the standpoint of reading this as an extended universe Lost book, it's so much fun. I can totally sympathize with Sawyer getting mad before he gets to find out who did it, because there's absolutely no way to figure it out ahead of time. (Which, from a craft standpoint I don't like, but from a standpoint of Sawyer being frustrated, it's fantastic.)
Overall it's fun to have on my shelf but it won't be a book I point someone to if they're reading to learn craft and techniques.
Looking at it from "just a book" standpoint, it's fine, but not stellar. Pretty standard mystery/thriller fare, nothing super groundbreaking, and the ending is a little rushed and a bit of a logical stretch. But still overall a fun time.
From the standpoint of reading this as an extended universe Lost book, it's so much fun. I can totally sympathize with Sawyer getting mad before he gets to find out who did it, because there's absolutely no way to figure it out ahead of time. (Which, from a craft standpoint I don't like, but from a standpoint of Sawyer being frustrated, it's fantastic.)
Overall it's fun to have on my shelf but it won't be a book I point someone to if they're reading to learn craft and techniques.
May 12, 2022
Gary Troup's final book. He was "lost" on Oceanic 815. This is the story of Paul Artisan, a NY private investigator hired to find Zander Widmore, the twin brother of Cliff Widmore--the Widmores being NY royalty. Zander is portrayed as the evil twin, but Paul begins to think differently as he digs deeper and the body count grows. He follows Zander to Key West, Cuba, California, and Australia.
There he meets Pru, another detective hired to watch him--who turns out to be an ally. Zander is found and brought home, and all the plots are uncovered, but not before Cliff is also killed. LOST-related bits included, but not an obvious direct tie-in.
There he meets Pru, another detective hired to watch him--who turns out to be an ally. Zander is found and brought home, and all the plots are uncovered, but not before Cliff is also killed. LOST-related bits included, but not an obvious direct tie-in.
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June 18, 2022
This was a decent private eye story, and I enjoyed it, but in the end I felt let down. There were a couple twists in unravelling the mystery, but those were not all that unique or interesting. I did not connect with the fiction that the author was one of the characters who disappeared on the plane in the "Lost" TV series. Was that simply a fabrication, to tease interest in this book?
On the other hand, the main character was likeable and entertaining. So was his elderly best friend and confidant, a bookish former professor of his, and a loveable old dog that the two of them "shared". The book was fun, but I was expecting more of a rush from it than I got.
On the other hand, the main character was likeable and entertaining. So was his elderly best friend and confidant, a bookish former professor of his, and a loveable old dog that the two of them "shared". The book was fun, but I was expecting more of a rush from it than I got.
October 25, 2019
I never watched even one episode of Lost, and the fake narrative of the author of Bad Twin being missing from a plane crash sounded real to me (never noting the NAME of the supposed airline NOR the “Lost” insignia on the front cover!😳). So I read the first half of the book as a simple detective story. Made the connection then and finished the book. As a simple detective story—of which I’ve read a great deal. So, based on that, the story is a really good SIMPLE detective story. Evidently if you are a Lost fan, looking for clues, it is a loser. I wasn’t and I totally enjoyed the story.
October 11, 2017
I would only recommend this to hard core fans of the tv show LOST. This book functions only as an extension (and a tenuous extension at that) of the mysteries surrounding the series. It is neither well-written nor suspenseful but the references to the various conspiracies portrayed on LOST and the idea that this could potentially hold some clues to the series are enough for me to give it 2 stars.
February 22, 2020
"This twin stuff, this mirror-image stuff-its enough to make you crazy. If one twin's good, the other must be bad. It's like this primordial battle between good and evil, darkness and light."
So so, a bit poor, no connections to Lost exempt a couple of names and places. A weak ending...
So so, a bit poor, no connections to Lost exempt a couple of names and places. A weak ending...
November 30, 2025
Pretty fun and light detective story, with a lot of globetrotting and, as it happens, peripheral links to Lost. Most importantly, when the detective (Paul Artisan) stays in Sydney, the description makes it clear that he stars at the Lord Nelson Hotel - a brewery/hotel I’ve drunk at many times, and stayed in, in the Rocks on the corner of Kent and Argyle Streets!
September 16, 2025
I just love that Hyperion decided to publish the manuscript they find on the plane in Lost! It’s not meant to be an amazing work of literature, it’s perfect for what it is. It makes Lost that much more entertaining!
December 1, 2017
LOST television series tie in. Detective series
February 21, 2018
Neither bad nor good. Some cute references to LOST that will make fans smile, but doesn’t solve any mysteries.
June 26, 2019
Was good
February 9, 2021
Honestly pretty good for what it is. We’re all Manny trying to solve the Lost mysteries with books 🌝
May 7, 2021
I wanted to like it so bad. All I got was the “so bad” part. It’s fine, at best. But even if you’re a really big fan of LOST, it’s not worth your time (unless you too are stranded on a beach)
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