Dan Brown isn't the first by any means to drag the Vatican into the plot. Apparently the sentinel switches from nun to priest everything there's a hand-off. The Guardian goes beyond the peppering of familiar elements and tries instead to retell the entire story but with the genders reversed. Fans of a series especially will expect certain key elements in any novel or film claiming to be part of the series.
Horror series and their box office franchise cousins often rely on reworking a set of motifs and plot devices to link all the books or films together into a larger oeuvre. In my notes I have a complaint about the many "false starts" to the novel. Unfortunately his opening scenes are confusing.
This sort of exposition works best cinematically and perhaps coming off the production of The Sentinel Konvitz had that in mind.
The Guardian instead has a lengthy prologue spanning about fifteen years with characters whose relationship to the remainder of the novel doesn't become obvious until the book is almost over. The Guardian, the sequel falls short of the first book in a number of ways.Ī well written horror novel jumps into the plot either by setting the creepy tone or with some actual horrific event. Louis, Kansas City and Boston, it is the story of epic, transformative times and two violent men, who meet on a descent into blood and Hell.One of my favorite horror films is The Sentinel and the book though flawed was also an enjoyable read for me. Filled with real events and real heroes and villains, who rampaged from New York's Bowery through to Chicago, St. It is a story of murder and revenge, set during the rise of organized crime in America from 1900 to 1912 when the Irish Mob ruled all major American cities, only to be taken down by its own hubris and the rise of the Jewish and Italian Mobs into labor racketeering and, then, bootlegging.
This year, his newly-written historical novel, The Circus of Satan, will be published. He is now at work on the third book in The Sentinel Trilogy, currently untitled, while The Sentinel and The Guardian are being mounted for e-book sales. The Sentinel sequel, The Guardian, was also a bestseller along with his next book, Monster. His first published novel (Simon and Schuster and Ballantine) was The Sentinel, which rose to Number 2 on the New York Times Mass Market Best Seller List. Jeffrey Konvitz was born in New York City, but after graduating from Cornell University and Columbia Law School, he headed to Los Angeles, where he lives and works as an entertainment finance attorney, producer (The Sentinel and Spy Hard, among others) and novelist.
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