Christopher Lambert and Sam VanSteen sign their second successful collaboration in the collection Soon after the girl of my dreams. On the program: a smoothly conducted thriller, calibrated to the millimeter, which has its share of surprises, of chases and charismatic characters. The scriptwriting ramifications are many and weave the dune solid frame survey that it is hard to let go. The pace is breathless narrative lenjeu nétant nothing less than to stop the spread of a virus that might spell the end of human present case. The two writers do not skimp on shock scenes: the Agony descriptions of raw contaminated victims (of fifteen year olds) are not in lace and have delicious hints of a Stephen King scourge. The main characters are numerous. There Sia, a young girl raised by a homosexual couple. It escapes the authorities, led by Virgil, a young hacker with a paranoid flavor and strong advocate of the conspiracy theory (the government lies to us and we handled). Both are carriers of the virus which signorent and their flight across the United States gives the opportunity of a long hunt that is the backbone of the novel. On their heels, a high-flying investigator Tommy BANNISTER, head of the CDC, stubborn dwarf who lives for his job. Hans PERRY, retired cop and private investigator in his spare time, he embarks on the footsteps of Gary Zaboly, the mysterious progenitor of the 57 contaminated teenagers, all from dune procreation through artificial insemination. The two plots are developed jointly (skilful construction): BANNISTER in pursuit of two teenagers on the run, and PERRY in search of the donor, the original carrier of the virus: the flush, this is a chance to develop an antidote
Virus 57 is a thriller that perfectly fulfills its function. It does not derogate from the codes of the genre that it operates with a certain extravagance: chase, hostages taken, investigation into a flying, ripoux cops, tough interrogation, confrontation with sadistic mobster, latent tension The story structure is perfectly control and develop a plot at two levels holding in suspense the Completion endpoint player.
We can regret at the limit of lexploitation some easy cards: impossible not simaginer in the skin of Tommy BANNISTER dwarf CDC cell responsible for the actor Peter Dinklage who plays Tyrion LANISTER on the screen (note paronymy surnames), one of the characters principal of the saga of Thrones. The relocation of the plot in the United States, if the novel ink in an environment conducive to gender, can dress the part in consideration of the action dune touches an artificial strand. Similarly, the two writers riding the wave of a subject dactualité, puisquen backdrop of the two surveys is the question of lhomosexualité and its impact, his feelings on children lhomoparentalité everyday.
But it would nitpick about nothing because ultimately Virus 57 has all the ingredients of the thriller addictive and well packaged. Strong, intelligent, panting and mastered, it will reserve its readers four hundred pages of reading pressure.
