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Author Gillian Flynn Reviews Brilliance by Marcus SakeyLet me first begin by saying, Marcus Sakey is a friend of mine. He’s a friend because I read his whip-smart thrillers years ago (The Amateurs is one of my favorites) and loved them so much I decided I had to meet the twisted mind behind them. So I was a fan before I was a friend. After reading Brilliance, the scales may have tilted: I may now be more fan than friend—it’s that ridiculously good.
Brilliance is the kind of novel that makes you grin at its high-flying feats of imagination, and then grin harder because it sticks the landing. It’s thrilling and funny and disturbing and sharp as hell... Read the rest of this review at www.kindlepost.com.
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Starred ReviewSakey (The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes) paints a near future too close for comfort in this stunning thriller, the first in a projected series. About 1% of American children born after 1986—known as abnorms, among other names—are particularly brilliant. A tiny percentage of these are problematic, like Erik Epstein, who understood stock market movements so well he made a fortune that led to the permanent closing of the New York Stock Exchange in 2011. Nick Cooper, a divorced former soldier and a member of Equitable Services, a U.S. government agency with the responsibility of tracking and killing abnorm terrorists, plays a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with the terrorists’ leader, John Smith, and with Shannon Azzi, Smith’s agent. Cooper calls Shannon “the Girl Who Walks Through Walls” for her ability to appear out of nowhere. When Cooper’s children come under threat, he pretends to defect from Equitable Services and reluctantly teams with Shannon. He soon finds his world giddily turning upside down while he sacrifices almost everything for justice and equality. In this parable of democracy’s downfall told in rapid-fire cuts, Sakey upends truths Cooper once thought self-evident, the truths people don’t seem to want any more, preferring instead, “safe lives and nice electronics and full fridges”—nothing less than the tragedy of our times.
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- Paperback: 452 pages
- Publisher: Thomas & Mercer (July 16, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1611099692
- ISBN-13: 978-1611099690
- Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.3 inches
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As one first reads `Brilliance' it almost recalls shades of X-Men, but the story and plot soon overwhelm that. Parents used to wish their child might be gifted, now for many it seems more of a curse.
This is America, but an America where, since 1980 some children are born with special abilities, they look like everyone else, but they are brilliant in some aspect. It might be the ability to see the twists and turns of the stock market, or another person's movements, build a valve to replace an artificial heart, or to program software to accomplish the impossible. Some of these brilliants use their gifts for good and others for their own gain, or revenge and civil war... bringing down world financial systems or military defenses. An agency with extraordinary powers is formed - the DAR Equitable Services. Their best and most trusted agent is a brilliant, an abnorm - Nick Cooper, working with normals to hunt down brilliants that endanger society.
For those who have experienced life as a military brat, the background of Cooper is so aptly described. There are clever scenes and twists and turns in the plot that show both sides -the norms and the abnorms.
There are points and names, especially in the beginning where information is not fully disclosed, until pages later, or at times the motivations of the brilliants are murky.
There is a most interesting and absorbing secondary plot, Nick Cooper's family; an ex-wife, with whom he is on excellent terms, a normal son and a daughter who is also a brilliant and who will soon be tested and sent to the abhorrent schools where brilliants are exiled to, taken from her family forever. Cooper volunteers to be blamed for a massive bombing to hunt down the most sought after brilliant of them all...John Smith.
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