International conspiracy of various murders

Paul Osborn es un joven cirujano norteamericano que de niño presenció el asesinato de su padre. Años más tarde, se le presenta la oportunidad de vengar al asesino de éste cuando casualmente se encuentra con él en una cafetería de París. Osborn estará acompañado de Vera Monneray, una doctora a la que ha conocido en un congreso en Ginebra y con la que mantiene una estrecha relación. Mientras tanto, el inspector McVey está investigando una serie de decapitaciones; lo más curioso es que las cabezas halladas han sido sometidas al grado de congelación del cero absoluto, algo que se creía imposible de realizar. Este caso le llevará a McVey a viajar a París, donde de manera casual se cruza con Osborn. Mientras tanto, un terrible secreto relacionado con una secta nazi está a punto de ser descubierto.

Great story, but poorly written (aside from a few noteworthy exceptions) and with way too much detail in areas that don't add anything to the story. It could be great if edited down from 700 to 450-500 pages. ( )

Stupid. That sums up, fairly succinctly, the entire theme of the story and this book. I'd be shocked if someone could provide an example of a literary cliche common to the thriller genre that wasn't included in this book. Every problem and mystery is conveniently solved by a friend in some random police force somewhere in the world. Every risk is resolved, no matter how dangerous, with barely a scratch (well, there was one broken leg). People are killed with hardly any consequences and the obligatory sex scenes are about as romantic as the average soft-core porn movie.
All that being said, the book is fairly compelling. It's a lot like your favorite bad movie, something that you intrinsically realize, by all objective measures, is a bad film, but you still enjoy watching (Mine is Point Break. I know it's a horrible movie, but come on, Keanu Reeves as an FBI agent?!). This is a bad book, it takes a decided turn for the stupid fairly early on and the ending (something you could predict before the halfway point of the book) is just damn silly. A dumb book, but didn't feel like it was a waste of my time. ( )

good Osborn Dr. — Paris — good
father killed yrs ago — Nazi
cryogenics

A thriller which weaves together three stories of international intrigue. In the first a doctor has to confront his father's killer, in the second a detective investigates a series of horrific murders, and in the third an international organization devises a masterplan of apocalyptic dimensions.