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Jack Fitzrowan died the way he would have wanted sailing his beloved ketch off Nantucket Sound. With his funeral comes a revelation which rocks the Fitzrowan dynasty. He may have been one of the world's richest men, but the maverick Irish-American never recovered from not knowing his first-born, Oliver, the illegitimate son who was taken away at birth. Oliver stands to inherit most of Jack's wealth, if he can be found, if he is still alive...
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First published January 1, 1998
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February 25, 2016
Picked this up in a charity shop thinking "ooh its him from Strangers and Bulman, that should be good"
Wealthy industrialist dies in boating accident, he leaves $3 million to each of his children but in a shock twist he leaves $200 million to his first son Oliver, who was forcefully adopted many years ago when our dead man was but a boy and got one of the help pregnant - none of his other children knew about this child. The other children have to keep the business going whilst fighting off a Japanese takeover (which is being helped from the inside by someone who is the same age as Oliver and who was adopted) whilst starting to look to find Oliver as there is a $25 million finding fee attached to the will. Meanwhile one of the children is married to a cop and he is investigating some Mob murders (committed by someone who is the same age as Oliver and who was removed from his parents as a very young child).
Elsewhere the cops partner has evidence that suggests that the businessman was actually murdered.
Who killed him?
Who is Oliver?
Why couldn't the wealthy industrialist and his army of PIs find the information that it takes his wastrel son four pages to find?
Bulman on a bike its bad. The prose is functional at best but has a habit of including in every single paragraph a mention of how someone is related to the plot even though we've been introduced to the characters mere pages ago. A sample of the text goes something along the lines of "Tom kissed his wife on the cheek and asked her how Paul, her brother and his brother in law, was getting along in the search for Oliver, his missing brother in law, and wondered if he should phone Dan at the office, Dan his partner of the last three years and who was of course currently investigating Tom for the supposed murder of Jack, his father in law. He paused whilst wondering what Darcy, his sister in law, was planning."
I cant decide if its just bad writing or if Smith actually couldn't remember introducing all of these relationships when he first introduced the characters. If all of the relations to each character were removed I think this would be about 150 pages shorter.
Awful doesnt even cover it.
Wealthy industrialist dies in boating accident, he leaves $3 million to each of his children but in a shock twist he leaves $200 million to his first son Oliver, who was forcefully adopted many years ago when our dead man was but a boy and got one of the help pregnant - none of his other children knew about this child. The other children have to keep the business going whilst fighting off a Japanese takeover (which is being helped from the inside by someone who is the same age as Oliver and who was adopted) whilst starting to look to find Oliver as there is a $25 million finding fee attached to the will. Meanwhile one of the children is married to a cop and he is investigating some Mob murders (committed by someone who is the same age as Oliver and who was removed from his parents as a very young child).
Elsewhere the cops partner has evidence that suggests that the businessman was actually murdered.
Who killed him?
Who is Oliver?
Why couldn't the wealthy industrialist and his army of PIs find the information that it takes his wastrel son four pages to find?
Bulman on a bike its bad. The prose is functional at best but has a habit of including in every single paragraph a mention of how someone is related to the plot even though we've been introduced to the characters mere pages ago. A sample of the text goes something along the lines of "Tom kissed his wife on the cheek and asked her how Paul, her brother and his brother in law, was getting along in the search for Oliver, his missing brother in law, and wondered if he should phone Dan at the office, Dan his partner of the last three years and who was of course currently investigating Tom for the supposed murder of Jack, his father in law. He paused whilst wondering what Darcy, his sister in law, was planning."
I cant decide if its just bad writing or if Smith actually couldn't remember introducing all of these relationships when he first introduced the characters. If all of the relations to each character were removed I think this would be about 150 pages shorter.
Awful doesnt even cover it.
May 30, 2012
This seemed an unlikely choice for our reading group given its subject matter and age. As a result there wasn't much to discuss though being a hot sultry evening we were not up to much.
It proved quite an easy read but felt very 'busy' with all kinds of seemingly unconnected plot lines and characters being in the mix. Still it did all come together at the end even if in a tad unbelievable outcome.
All of us in the group reported that it was the kind of book to read on the beach or a plane. No one either loved it or hated it - hence the 'it's ok' rating.
It proved quite an easy read but felt very 'busy' with all kinds of seemingly unconnected plot lines and characters being in the mix. Still it did all come together at the end even if in a tad unbelievable outcome.
All of us in the group reported that it was the kind of book to read on the beach or a plane. No one either loved it or hated it - hence the 'it's ok' rating.
February 28, 2013
Pretty damn terrible. The mobster who falls in love and ends up being a long lost blood brother blah blah blah....... Crap
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