SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW: THE CRIME OF JULIAN WELLS by Thomas H. Cook

THE CRIME OF JULIAN WELLS           
by Thomas H. Cook

Publisher:		Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Imprint:		The Mysterious Press
Pub Date:		August 07, 2012
ISBN:		9780802126030

Julian Wells, famous author of true-crime novels, rows out into the middle of a pond and slits his wrists.  When his body is found, it is an obvious suicide, but with no suicide note, his sister Loretta and his best friend Philip are left to wonder why he took his own life.  As they sift through the details of the last forty years of his life, they realize how little they ever knew Julian Wells.

Thomas H. Cook has written a masterpiece combination of mystery and spy thriller.  Philip and Loretta retrace the steps of Julian over the  last forty years of his life as he searched for the elusive Marisol, revealing Wells' secret life as he was increasingly involved with revolutionaries and political intrigue in South America.  

At the end, Cook's novel serves to show us that we never really know the hearts of man, not even those closest to us.

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