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Title: Lee Childs and Steven King create a psychological thriller
Review: I really liked the idea of this book, and it is much better written than the average, so much that I think it leans more toward Stephen King than Lee Childs. However, like a Jack Reacher novel from Lee Childs, it's a mild mystery with a lot of action and exploration of interesting circumstances. The plot itself becomes apparent after the first third of the book, at which point it detours from X-Files/Stephen King supernatural scariness into the more literal fiction of Lee Childs, where a social phenomena is made into a tangible, shadowy, micro-conspiracy that then needs destruction by brave heroes. Like many books, the last third is where the author loses his nerve and gets too linear in his writing and also too vague, as he tries to massage together loose ends. I really enjoyed the first half of this book, but found the conspiracy of an overdone archetype, and finished reading without any real sense of mystery.
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