- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Outlet (April 1979)
- ISBN-10: 0517536269
- ISBN-13: 978-0517536261
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.5 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 567 g
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3.5 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Different kind of novel from Patterson, July 7 2000
By Harold L. Laroff - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Jericho Commandment: A Novel (Hardcover)
This is a story of revenge against the Nazis for the Holocaust. Or is it? Very interesting, exciting and sometimes down right scarey. A real page turner.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Patteron bites off a little more than he can chew., May 20 2012
By Lincoln Rodman - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: JERICHO COMMANDMENT (Mass Market Paperback)
This is one of the shining examples of James Patterson being good with plots, and questionable in most other aspects of fleshing out a story.In this instance, he comes up with (as usual) a pretty interesting criminal plan - in this case, an elaborate revenge mechanism by Jewish survivors of concentration camps. And while the ideas there are good, literally everything else in the story falls flat.
The characters are tersely described and you really don't get to know them or feel half the sympathy you should for them under the circumstances. The relationships are questionable. The pointed character arcs / turns are not great. Perhaps the story is just too short at 200 pages - but I don't think that's the problem.
Patterson also does his annoying habit of having "Song X" by "Artist Y" run through a character's head as he / she sees a love interest. I don't know how that habit has survived year after year and book after book.
Also, it was poorly advised to drum up the specter of Martin Bormann and Mengele and others - that is, to have them more or less sitting around a table watching events unfold - but then have them be of no importance whatsoever to the story. Why add the fairly impractical and unbelievable notion that these fellows not only all survived the end of the war but then stayed in touch and remained buddies that hang out together.
I am getting sidetracked, but Bormann would never have known Mengele, even when they were both in Germany and things were going well. Plus EVERYBODY hated Bormann and would not have made any effort to keep in touch with him - everyone from Speer to Goering to Hitler's wife detested Bormann's appearance, manners and smell. I mention it only because Patterson does go to a few lengths to flaunt his research, which was generally adequate for the story - just undermined by his characterizations.
That aside, I would give it 2.5 stars but round up to three. Lesser Patterson is still generally readable, but if he would just stop doing a few annoying things, I might be inclined to start dishing out some 5-star reviews - and we all know positive feedback from me is why he got into the business in the first place.
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