Julie R. Neidlinger: Lone Prairie Library

Book Review: The Trudeau Vector.

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The book wasn't bad. It was average. But I expected more than average because I was fooled by the half-orange spine of the Penguin imprint.

The Trudeau Vector, by Juris Jurjevics, was exciting and suspensful, and something akin to a Michael Crichton book except with a liberal bent.

But the paperback version that I bought was a Penguin imprint and I assumed I was holding some kind of literature. Plus, the creepy-cool cover made me think I had a story beyond story. I had a Penguin book with a skull on the cover! This was going to something!

It was good, as far as Arctic thrillers go. Kind of like Smilla's Sense of Snow. It was a fine read. It was...like any of those trade paper backs you see at the grocery story, a Tom Clancy, a Crichton, a Koontz.

It was also a Penguin. And it shouldn't have been, unless Penguin is slipping.

By all means, read the book. It's not bad. It's pretty typical as far as thrillers go. But don't buy it out of half-orange spine snobbery, because you'll be disappointed and taught a lesson that snobbery of any sort and books don't mix.