Highly intriguing subject in a mediocre style. Review on The Genesis Code - John Case

I'll be concise. The subject is highly intriguing. The plot fairly well conceived. The characters' actions below par, though, sometimes truly illogical and senseless, especially when found in a thriller, exemplified by the protagonist's, I would say, stupid actions. When you consider that he is an investigator himself, owning and activating an investigating company, with a related background from the military, this is all the more disturbing. BUT, The most annoying and bothering aspect, to the point of pure distraction, is the stubborn authors' wish to let us know the minutest details of each and every thing mentioned and encountered in the book.

I, as the reader, don't have to know the names of the material of which the jacket was made or the car make or the gun make or. I got tired of it from the first page and made it a habit to skip such irrelevant details everytime I could, and I could, because there are plenty of such occasions, without any miss of the plot, not one.

I may mention that I'm a writer myself. To justify my statement, I will bring just one other example of a highly recommended thriller, "Black Market", by James Patterson, written in the'90s too. It runs, not just fast, and with many aspects, military and civilian, economic and politic, but the writer doesn't feel the obsessive need to let us know the most unnecessary details of such facts and data.

And it is still a GOOD READ, a very good read, better, I'd say, than the book in question here.