In eerste instantie is het een boeiend verhaal; de oude man die uit het bejaardentehuis wegvlucht en zijn voorgeschiedenis. Maar gaandeweg wordt het een dikke stroop; te veel uitwijdingen en heen-en-weer gespring in de tijd. Halverwege heb ik het boek weggelegd.

I'm not quite sure what I thought of this book. The description of the book talks about an older couple that accidentally kill a man one night, bury the body and take the huge amount of cash he had because there were no witnesses and they reckoned he was a criminal. Ten years later, the husband is in a nursing home and has walked out, presumably looking for the money he thinks he buried. The book really isn't about that at all, at least, it doesn't talk about the original event much. The husband has walked out of a nursing home. He wanders around his home town, in and out of shops and the homes of a few of the people he used to know. He is persued by his son and by the husband of the daughter of one of his exes, neither of whom are upstanding citizens.

The book jumps back to the early 1950s when he was a police officer. There is also a man who has gone AWOL from the army using the name of another officer. He's a real piece of work, hiding from his wife who is making money hooking while also bringing up a daughter. He doesn't seem to be out for any sort of revenge on her, but I'm not really sure what he was doing there.

The story was a bit confusing, jumping back and forth with no apparent point. The book really isn't about finding the old man, it's about his past and theirs and what happened then which doesn't seem to have any bearing whatsoever on the dead body/cash.

The writing itself was good, the characters well drawn out, but the plot seemed to meander. I think if you keep in mind that it's more about the events in the past rather than the premise, it makes more sense. ( )