Review: Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille

Interesting premise, the typical John Corey humor, but all of it ruined by a stereotypical monologuing villain. This villain is brilliant, outsmarts the good guys, captures them… And does he kill them off? No. Instead, he goes on a massive monologue, explains in painstaking detail all his plans to them, carefully points out how the plans could be easily foiled… And then just stands around and waits for the good guy to save the day. And he does this not once, but three or four times.

I thought that we, as a society, were done with the monologuing bad guy? Austin Powers (1997) made fun of it. The Incredibles (2004) made fun of it. We were all past it. And now this 2006 book does it? Lame.

Rating: 3 stars