- Mass Market Paperback: 326 pages
- Publisher: Avon Books (May 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0380802945
- ISBN-13: 978-0380802944
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.4 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,043,848 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Now a major motion picture from Universal Pictures starring Bruce Willis. Sixteen-year-old autistic savant Simon Lynch is a genius with numbers, capable of unraveling any mathematical problem placed before him. Distant and solitary, he lives in a private world that no one can understand or enter--until he solves the wrong puzzle. Now the brilliant, damaged boy has broken an unbreakable code, and rogue FBI Special Agent Art Jefferson is his only protection against a pathological government security apparatus and the world's most beautiful, deranged killer. For Simon knows secrets that no one must know--and for that he must die.
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
I think this is one of the worst books I've ever read. It was way too predictable and it was plain and simply terrible. I can't believe I actually read the whole book.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Mercury rising was a good book, but I felt that it was somewhat predictable. But I loved all the action scenes. I've never heard of Ryne Douglas Pearson before, but he is a great author and I would definately read another of his books.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Exalant book!
27 Jan 2000
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I am a big fan of Mercury Rising. I read the book first and then watched the movie both where very good. I hope that the movie and book give people more awareness to Autism! And I am proud to note that I am an Autistic myself.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Good, but predictable
24 Aug 1998
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Mercury rising was a good book, but I felt that it was somewhat predictable. But I loved all the action scenes. I've never heard of Ryne Douglas Pearson before, but he is a great author and I would definately read another of his books.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Decent mystery fare...
4 Feb 2003
Format:Mass Market Paperback
An autistic child gets a copy of a puzzle the FBI cryptographers planted into a Genius-level magazine. Basically, the kid sees the puzzle, solves it in about a minute, and then does what the puzzle solves into: instructions to call a number listed and tell that he solved the puzzle. When he does, he's targetted for "removal."
Putting the FBI into a tailspin of potential disaster - who is this person who called and cracked the code? And what will the man in charge of what is now a 10 million dollar mistake do to this child? The tension begins to rise... Enter Art Jefferson, who is the one man who might be able to keep this autistic child alive long enough to get him to some sort of safety.
It has a good rising tension throughout, and definitely the last side of tape two is just a race of danger and bullet-dodging and so forth. Very well done. I didn't expect some of the last few twists - though quite a bit of the plot I did see coming - and the ending quite satisfied me. I liked it... though I'd love to know why the book/audiobook FBI agent was a huge black man - and the movie had Bruce Willis. Why do they do that?
Anyway - well worth the time, and the abridgement wasn't half bad. The only real frustration I had was that Joe Morton tried too many accents (his Japanese is borderline offensive stereotype), and that sometimes you were on name overload - there were a lot of characters to this one, and by the nature of abridgement, you didn't get into a lot of their heads. Quite often I was thinking, "Wait, who's this guy again?"
'Nathan
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