Skip to main content

A Perfect Lie

Great start. Chris is a fake. He pretends to be a teacher in order to befriend a high school boy whom he can manipulate.  Two boys are possible targets:  Razz and Jordan.  Absent fathers (one dead). Chris drives a wedge between the two friends.  We learn a bit about the parents.  One woman is a director of an outlet mall (which her older son robs and for which he is arrested). The other woman works (until she quits) as a waitress at the fancy country club in town.  A third boy, Evan, lurks on the outskirts. His mother is wealthy (husband is surgeon) but unhappy. Is husband cheating on her.

Other plot threads:  bomb materials purchased. Truck rental planned.

Abe, teaching colleague, is from Wyoming, the state Chris has picked for his cover since he's sure no one will be from there.  Abe also is talkative and pushy, making Chris nervous that his cover will be blown.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Oppenheimer . . . film

 Solid opening 30 minutes (we're treating this like a mini-series).  O's involvement with left-wing causes . . . rift with Einstein (O thinks of him as over-the-hill and Einstein knows it.)  First splitting of atom.  Lawrence Lab in Berkeley--Lawrence practical applied physics . . . not O's strength.  Main actor is from Peaky Blinders.
Post a Comment
Read more

The Master Chapter 2

February 1895 (Alice died in 1892) Money problems, jealousy of Wilde; time spent with Lord Wolseley1; off to Ireland to lick his wounds; Irish unrest--Irish landlords boycott all social events; much time spent with manservant Hammond (homosexual attraction again); fancy dress ball, appalling to James, who is only happy in company of Hammond, though Hammond remains a servant and no more; little girl alone on the grounds--inspiration for Turn of the Screw?; conflict with Webster who alludes to Wilde's successful play and HJ's failure; Wolseley was an  Anglo-Irish  officer in the  British Army . He became one of the most influential and admired British generals after a series of successes in Canada, West Africa, and Egypt, followed by a central role in modernizing the British Army in promoting efficiency. He served in Burma, the  Crimean War , the  Indian Mutiny , China, Canada and widely throughout Africa—including his  Ashanti  campaign (18...
Post a Comment
Read more