Another good read in the Body Farm series. I even got abit of a history lesson from it, learned some things I wasnt aware of. I like how the authors use real places and uses the real names and real jobs of some of the characters. Sometimes I wish Dr. Brockton was a tad more "manly" and not the object of peoples punch lines.
I absolutely love all of the Jefferson Bass books, this one included.
The forth installment of Jefferson Basss Body Farm series finds Dr. Bill Brockton investigating a scientists death due to radiation poisoning. The deceased elderly man used to work in Oak Ridge on the Manhattan Project. Was his death because of his work, was it suicide or was he murdered? Or could he have been a communist spy?!
Bones of Betrayal, unlike the other books before it, deals much more with WWII, nuclear weapons and espionage than the study of anthropology. It was a nice change of pace. Well researched and told in typical easy-going Jefferson Bass style, I came away with a much better understanding and appreciation of the greatest generation ever.
I also liked that the book ended with not one, but two cliffhangers: Did the killer really escape or freeze to death trying and will medical examiner, Dr. Garcia, survive the devastating radiation poisoning he was exposed to while performing the scientists autopsy?
I hope to answer these questions, and more, after reading the next novel, The Bone Thief.
Bones of Betrayal, unlike the other books before it, deals much more with WWII, nuclear weapons and espionage than the study of anthropology. It was a nice change of pace. Well researched and told in typical easy-going Jefferson Bass style, I came away with a much better understanding and appreciation of the greatest generation ever.
I also liked that the book ended with not one, but two cliffhangers: Did the killer really escape or freeze to death trying and will medical examiner, Dr. Garcia, survive the devastating radiation poisoning he was exposed to while performing the scientists autopsy?
I hope to answer these questions, and more, after reading the next novel, The Bone Thief.
Not their best work. Dwelled way too long/much on political/historical ideas and not enough story telling. Became tedious & almost didn't finish.
I didn't particularly like this one and didn't finish it--I thought it might get better after 100 pages but it has alot of descriptions and it has a lot of forensics and I don't like anything like that it doesn't interest me and too much description is just boring.
