If it's just to give local flavor he should look for things that are truly local.Īnd then there are descriptions that just thow you off completely. I would also like to know why he used the Spanish words for things that have perfect equivalents in the English language (a "supermercado" is just a grocery store).
Nothing farther from reality.Īnd staying with language, even his use of Spanish is really bad, mixing feminine articles with masculine nouns, for instance. And that is not only true for the language usage, it's also true for the way in which he depicts them: basically as violent radicals or cowards. This guy has only seen the Basque country from his hotel room. The Basque person (even more, a proud ETA militant) in his rage starts to speak in. So, he has a basque person speaking English to an English speaker. Knox: what works in an movie may not work in a book.Īlso, use of plural languages is way out of range with this author. Actually the story could be interesting if the poor reader didn't lose track so often, because the bad guy is about to kill the good guy (again, and again, and again). You can't put your protagonist on the very verge of death 20 times and pull him out on the veeeeery last milisecond and make the story credible. Tom Knox (or whatever his real name is) should stop watching Indiana Jones and Lara Croft movies. The Marks of Cain dares to raise the bar even higher and promises to be an even greater success. The Genesis Secret-already in its fourth hardcover printing and appearing on several bestseller lists-immediately established Tom Knox as a searing, brilliant new voice in commercial fiction.
Both victims came from villages in the Basque region, both were interred at a top-secret Nazi camp, both have been silenced for what they know about the experiments conducted on the Basques, the Jews, and a dwindling mystical tribe of pre-Caucasian locals called Cagots.įrom the North Sea islands to the Arizona desert, from the graveyards of the Basque countryside to the heart of colonial Africa, Martinez's and Quinn's quests intersect to reveal the shocking roots of racial persecution, human violence, and war. A wealthy, elderly woman has been murdered in the most horrific fashion, and another homicide soon follows. Meanwhile, London journalist Simon Quinn may have found his big break. The map leads David into the heart of the dangerous Basque mountains, where a genetic curse lies buried and a frightening secret about the Western world's past is hidden. When David Martinez, a young lawyer, receives an ancient map from his dying grandfather, the mysteries of his past begin to open up before him. A thrilling and startling novel from the author of the international bestseller The Genesis Secret
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