The Equalizer
A Novel
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نقد و بررسی
June 30, 2014
Based on the 1980s TV show about a CIA agent–turned-vigilante, this prequel presents the backstory of how Robert McCall went from N.Y.C. bartender, attempting to remain below the radar of former colleagues and enemies, to a righter of wrongs for those faced with problems and no avenues for help. Sloan, a co-creator of the TV series, gets some details wrong (e.g., no one refers to the New York subway lines by color). More importantly, characters don’t act or think in logical ways. In a storyline in parallel to McCall’s intervention on behalf of an abused hooker, a master assassin fails to anticipate that the controllers of a female spy he’s stalking in Russia might know the location of her backup safe house. Later, McCall makes a completely baffling choice while dealing with a serial criminal that has consequences readers will anticipate, even if McCall somehow doesn’t. Having the hero advertise his services on Craigslist doesn’t make this fresh.
Narrator Jeff Gurner catapults the listener into the frenzied and violent world of Robert McCall. The former CIA black-ops agent is trying to lead a quiet life as a New York bartender, but he just can't ignore an innocent in trouble, and he relishes the long odds. Gurner handles the relentless pace and lengthy fight scenes with gusto. To defeat a network of Chechen enforcers, McCall calls on a strangely endearing, albeit menacing, team of contacts from his espionage days. All are voiced with such care that they become the listener's old friends, too. There's a lot of violence, but it's not gratuitously graphic. Even at 21 hours, listeners will be sorry when the showdown ends. C.A.T. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine
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