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The Accident by Chris Pavone
Making time for the more popular books that had mostly been forced out of my reading schedule due to my preference for offbeat fiction was one of my reading goals for this year. I guess I felt like I was missing out on the hype surrounding bestsellers. One book that I didn’t have time to read was Chris Pavone’s highly acclaimed debut novel, The Expats. So I leaped at the chance to get my hands on an ARC copy of his most recent book, The Accident. From the start, it was obvious that Pavone had publishing industry experience. He is aware of the bestseller’s recipe.
Create a story that will appeal to his readers, who are his target audience, first. The Accident is a tale about writing and the book that emerged as a result of those efforts. It takes place in the world of book publishing, where many readers aspire to work. The cherry on top, in my opinion, is that it expands the industry’s scope to include the multi-media sector, movies, and online news sources. As a result, people were captivated by Pavone’s blurb and decided to buy. He must now make sure that reviews are positive for all types of readers.
He writes with excellent, simple prose and alternates between the perspectives of numerous characters in a variety of exotic settings, but he leaves out important details about or an explanation for the backstories of those characters. Then, just as you begin to feel comfortable and grow to know a character, they are suddenly killed off. Wow, I didn’t see it coming; I should have paid closer attention. Focus, my dear reader. The tension increases.
Even with incredibly little chapters, Pavone caters to readers with short attention spans (the age that grew up watching TV commercials). These quicken the action and heighten the excitement. They are the components of the puzzle that solvers use. It’s similar to a pass-the-parcel game in that you can’t stop until you discover what the central prize is.
The Accident by Chris Pavone was admirable in many ways, including the plot’s deft twists and turns, the pacing and suspense, and the excellent prose, but it didn’t have a lasting impact on me. I could only relate with the characters on a surface level; while they were engaging, they lacked depth.
The Accident demonstrates once more that Chris Pavone is a great master of suspense, according to the high-profile marketing effort funded by this author’s bestseller status (and possibly connections?). Based on this experience, I believe a more accurate evaluation would be that Pavone is a skilled mechanic but unquestionably not a master.
About The Book
The final pages of a mysterious, anonymous book are being turned by literary agent Isabel Reed as dawn breaks in New York. She is speeding through the shocking discoveries about influential individuals as well as long-kept truths from her own history. Hayden Gray, a seasoned CIA agent in Copenhagen, finds himself unexpectedly facing down the barrel of an unexpected pistol because he is determined to have this big story forgotten. The author is also living a secretive expat life in Zurich, seeking to make up for a lifetime of lies and betrayals by releasing The Accident while constantly watching his back.
These lives come together over the course of one arduous, frantic, and hazardous day as the book starts its perilous march toward publication, toward saving or damaging careers and businesses, putting everything at risk—and everyone in grave danger. The diverse ensemble of characters—in publishing, film, politics, and espionage—are all compelled to face the divisions between their ideal selves and the persons they actually become as a result of their ambitions.
An complicated web of lies dating back a quarter of a century leads to a dark, winding road in upstate New York, where the horrific truth about the tragedy itself is buried, while the action races across Europe and across America. The Accident is a compelling, complex, multilayered, and unputdownable novel that further establishes Chris Pavone as a great suspense master.
The Review
The Accident
9.3 Score
Pavone may have written the thriller of the year. At the center of this book is the dangerous intersection of entertainment/gossip news with politics. Reputations and billions of dollars are at stake and the ethical lines become hazy and are then crossed, escalating the lengths to which individuals, corporations and government agencies will go to keep truth from becoming public.
PROS
- Incendiary Manuscript.
- Nails The Genre!
- Interesting Characters.
- Splendid Writing.
CONS
- Poorly Constructed.
- Shockingly Bad.
- Shallow.
- Difficult Read.
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