The Righteous Men
January 3, 2008 by Santosh
I was looking for a good thriller to engage myself and just going by the blurbs picked The Righteous Men by Sam Bourne. “The biggest challenger to Dan Brown’s crown” by the British newspaper The Mirror. And after reading the book, I concur with The Mirror. Really one of the best thrillers I have read lately.
When I pick a thriller, I expect it to make me finish in one go, make me glued to the last page and tempt me to go to the last pages to find out the truth. This one fits exactly. The novel belongs to ‘The DaVinci Code’ genre and Sam Bourne convincingly uses ‘codes’ ‘cabals’ ‘conspiracy’ and ‘Christ’ to make ‘The Righteous Men’ and a cash cow for publisher and author.
‘The Righteous Men’ is based on the jewish folklore ‘The Righteous Men’, which says that world is safe because of the noble acts of 36 righteous men and killing of these 36 men would lead to destruction of world. The Chruch of Reborn Jesus wants to remove these 36 men to facilitate the Second Coming of Jesus.
Though like, The DaVinci Code, this too disappoints towards the end (you can easily figure out what is going to happen), but it is a good read. Anyone who has enjoyed The DaVinci Code, would love this as well.
Hi,
You seem to be an adventerous (sort of a seeker / seeker of a sort). An obvious book and not so obvious book you can check out :-
1)7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Read again and again for gaining new perspective)
2)Man Search for Meaning - Victor Frankl.
Well that was a kind of an introduction abt the aspirations of my current frame of mind.. not much of a novelty i guess……y not try another medium : Movies(if you have not tried). It can create new stimulating thought patterns, just like books :-
1- Oldboy (Korean)
2- Icchi the Killer ( Japanese)
3- Chungking Express (Hong Kong)
4- Sonatine ( Japanese)
5- Taxidriver(US)
6- Midnight Cowboy (US)
7- Bottle Rocket (US)
8- Royal Tennenbaums (US)
9- The Aquatic life of Steve Zissou (US)
(All these are floating in the Big Wide Web with English subtitles)
Cheers,
PS:Drop a line by .. if it created new thought patterns…..