Beauty of the book: Life or Death by Michael Robotham

The actual review of the book, Life or Death by Michael Robotham, will be in another post. This is just how I stumbled upon the book and what made me read this awesome book!

I seldom read novels by authors who are unknown to me. Sidney Sheldon, John Grisham, Jeffery Archer, and Frederick Forsyth are the authors I adore. I have also read all the books of Dan Brown and Steig Larsson. Ken Follet, Robert Ludlum, Arthur Hailey, Wilbur Smith, Robin Cook, etc., are the many other authors I have read. I am yet to hook on to Agatha Christie and the mystery novels by JK Rowling, though they are part of my library. The reason I am giving information about all the other authors I read is to give an idea of what sort of authors I prefer and read.

Just by pure chance, I stumbled across the book of Life or Death by Michael Robotham. I had never heard of Michael and I would have not bought this book until I read the book description in an eCommerce site: “Why would a man escape from prison the day before he's due to be released? Audie Palmer has spent a decade in prison for an armed robbery in which four people died, including two of the gang. Seven million dollars has never been recovered and everybody believes that Audie knows where the money is. | For ten years he has been beaten, stabbed, throttled and threatened almost daily by prison guards, inmates and criminal gangs, who all want to answer this same question, but suddenly Audie vanishes, the day before he's due to be released. | Everybody wants to find Audie, but he's not running. Instead he's trying to save a life . . . and not just his own.” The description was intriguing enough for me to add it to my library. The description also made me to start reading this book even though I had planned to read this at a later point of time.

My initial idea was to start with this book and read it until the new John Grisham novel was delivered. I would then have put this book on hold and finish off John’s new book and then resume with this book. Alas, all my plans went for a toss. What began as a 2 hour stint continued till I finished reading the entire book. This is how fantastic the book is. I sacrificed sleep, television, news paper, and other routine exercises to complete this book. I can say that my time was well spent.

Go grab this book without fail!