Excellent and Enjoyable | Death Match

Absolutely loved this book | Death Match | Lincoln Child

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	• Death Match Lincoln Child Anchor, 2006 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 29 reviews view larger image
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Death Match (Review)

I am a big fan of suspense thrillers. I also enjoy the Preston and Child's novels so I was excited to read this this book by Lincoln Child. I thought it was okay...a good story; but not as exciting to read as the novels by both authors.

Excellent and Enjoyable

Lincoln Child can make sitting in an airport waiting for your delayed flight to arrive quite enjoyable. I had a difficult time putting it down and really appreciated the concept that our happiness is something that can be mapped and put into binary. Kind of match.com meets War Games (remember that movie?). It's an interesting look into AI, data mining and the human psyche. Definetely a must read.

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Absolutely loved this book

What a fun, imaginative, suspenseful ride this novel was. I loved it. I am not usually a fan of science fiction type books buth this novel is an excellent mix of suspense thiller and techno thriller. The premise is extremely intriguing and gives the book the great plot it needs to succeed.

We have Eden, Inc. a highly developed matchmaking service - it uses high tech artificial intelligence to try to match people on up to 1 million separate pieces of criteria. It is expensive, very popular and succesful. People are finding their soul mates. But 2 "super couples" have committed double suicide. A "super couple" is a couple that matches on all 1 million pieces of criteria. The deaths are a problem and Eden, Inc. needs help so they call in Chris Lass, a psychologist on marital relationships who used to work for the FBI. He is given all he needs to try to figure out why these couples are killing themselves - or are they?

This novel is excellent escape fiction. Many have given it 4 stars saying that the ending was predictable or not believable. What I love about this book is just that. It is not reality based. But it is so expertly, intelligently written that we get caught up in Eden, Inc. and their computerized matchmaking. We go into another world and it is exciting. The characters are superbly developed. None of them are thin or caricatures. They are all fully developed and carefully crafted just as Eden is detailed to expert precision. Some characters you will root for, some you will hate, some will surprise you.

The suspense starts at the beginning and never lets up. Someone is not happy with Chris Lass looking into the working of Eden and they start causing serious problems for him. The journey Chris goes on and how expertly we are made a part of it is what carries this novel. The ending may be a little over the top but for me it followed the rest of the book and was very satisfying.

I highly recommend this book for intelligent, well crafted escape fiction. The suspense is awesome and you will be on the edge of your seat.

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good suspense

This is a totally different storyline from the usual Child books. It was an enjoyable read about a futuristic (one hopes!) concept of dating and the perfect couple. It shows what can go wrong if you allow the human relationship matching to be done by a computer. A very good read and a very different plot from the regular Preston and Child books.

Everyone?s looking for the perfect match, a life-long partner, and Lewis and Lindsay Thorpe have found theirs, thanks to hi-tech matchmaker Eden Inc.

But when the happy couple?s life together ends in what looks like a double suicide, Eden Inc. has some explaining to do. So they hire forensic psychologist Christopher Lash to figure out what went wrong. And then another perfect match ends in death...

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