The Napoleon Connection (The Jewel Trilogy) Review
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2RM7N4TMBU7UM I read this novel on a recent visit to the States and as soon as the Kindle reader is available in the UK, I'll be checking out Claude Brickell's other works. The Napoleon Connection, the first adventure-mystery in The Jewel Trilogy--three spicy, hip novels packed with loads of fun--is set in the famed French Quarter of present-day New Orleans. Hired by one of that city's more prominent denizens, young and accomplished art historian Michael Bennington must discover the whereabouts of a priceless artifact--believed to be a rare jewel--curiously missing from the city's famed Cabildo historical museum. Bennington dives into the assignment with an uncanny passion--his specialty is 19th century jewels--and ends up taking a virtual roller coaster ride through the city's fascinating historical past, uncovers both real and purported--if not positively bizarre--local legends, descends into the city's sexually-alternative underground and even encounters a quasi-religious, homoerotic Roman Catholic cult.
Check price now
Related Products
Customer Reviews
Disappointing - "ESL" -
Not having read this author before, I can't compare this work with previously written books. However, I am not impressed with his writing - there seems to be a lot of unnecessary and unbelievable dialogue between the main character, his at-home companion, and various others he meets along the way. I don't know if the grammatical and spelling errors in the book are also in the original published book, or just a result of conversion to Kindle technology - for instance, in the first part of the book Gaudreaux's name is spelled one way, and about a third of the way through it's spelled Geaudreaux several times - then back to the original.
Jul 19, 2010 08:39:03
0 comments:
Post a Comment