Double Lives
Chris Pavone has written quite a thriller. Newly
married Ariel Pryce wakes up after a passionate night of lovemaking with her
husband John Wright, 10 years her junior, to discover he was kidnapped. There
begins an adventure that takes her through the streets of Lisbon, meetings with
the Portuguese police, U.S. embassy officials and the CIA. We also learn that
that Ariel has lived under another name and so too did her husband. Simply put
their lives are not what they seem.
Ariel is a society girl, who after a divorce, ends up
owning a bookstore and a small farm in the outer reaches of Long Island. Her
life is a far cry from the society life she led in New York being married to a
high level and boorish financier. Through many plot twists we also find out
that her new husband the not the business consultant he appears to be.
The events take place against the background in
Washington D.C. where a major confirmation hearing is taking place and numerous
flash backs into the lives of Ariel and John. It is far more than visiting the
tourist spots and wild chases in the back alleys of Lisbon in search of the
kidnappers.
Pavone has written a great summer read, but you have
to overcome his writing when he goes off on political tangents. It is one thing
to poke fun at the foibles of the very rich, but quite another to make all out
attacks on American society and capitalism and to him, it seems that most men
are toxic animals.
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