The Policy (Nova Audio Books)

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Summary: A rich and intricate tale
Review: 'The Policy' is an unusual and complex story that is as much about its characters as it is about its nevertheless ingenious plot. Readers wanting gore and horror will probably be disappointed, but I found reading this an unusually rich experience. The story involves a clever - and almost too believable - conspiracy to make millions of dollars at nobody's expense (a 'perfect' crime), and one woman's search for the truth. But the most interesting thing about the story is what this money does to the people that have it, and who are also forced to hide it. It as a story about pleasure and life postponed. Witnessing what this seeming dream-come-true does to those who make it happen is wonderful. Being rich beyond your wildest dreams will never seem the same again. All-in-all, a remarkably thoughtful and literate piece of work.

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Summary: Patrick Lynch Scores Again
Review: Both Omega and Carriers were absorbing, believable novels, and The Policy is no less effective. The plot is truly ingenious, craftily woven, a marvel of construction which reveals itself incrementally in a riveting manner. No way of second-guessing the outcome! However, Patrick Lynch (a pseudonym for two co-authors) has some difficulty in moulding the characters in his books. One does not quite get a clear image of the participants. Be that as it may, his (their!) three books to date deserve all the acclaim they have mustered, and I await the next book eagerly.

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Summary: Patrick Lynch Scores Again
Review: Both Omega and Carriers were absorbing, believable novels, and The Policy is no less effective. The plot is truly ingenious, craftily woven, a marvel of construction which reveals itself incrementally in a riveting manner. No way of second-guessing the outcome! However, Patrick Lynch (a pseudonym for two co-authors) has some difficulty in moulding the characters in his books. One does not quite get a clear image of the participants. Be that as it may, his (their!) three books to date deserve all the acclaim they have mustered, and I await the next book eagerly.

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Summary: Well-written
Review: I am an actuary, and when I accidentally stumbled across this book, I bought it more for the "joke factor." Come on, a thriller about actuaries?! I thought I would get some good laughs out of the author's complete lack of knowledge. Boy was I surprised! The book is very believable, and Lynch captured the personality of a typical actuary perfectly. Luckily for me I work in property and casualty insurance, not life/health so I don't have to worry about it coming true....

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Summary: Great book, and very plausible
Review: I am an actuary, and when I accidentally stumbled across this book, I bought it more for the "joke factor." Come on, a thriller about actuaries?! I thought I would get some good laughs out of the author's complete lack of knowledge. Boy was I surprised! The book is very believable, and Lynch captured the personality of a typical actuary perfectly. Luckily for me I work in property and casualty insurance, not life/health so I don't have to worry about it coming true....

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Summary: Another excellent insurance scam thriller from Lynch
Review: I bought this book after reading Omega, and was pleased to find it better than the last novel by Patrick Lynch! I found it much harder to put this one down, and raced through to the finale which includes all the twists and turns that one could hope for. I have no hesitation in suggesting that those headed off on long journeys would like to while away the hours with this one. Insurance companies make an interesting target of attention, and in an age of cloning and disease profiling I would be surprised if what is written about is not already a fact.

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Summary: pretty awful until 2/3 through
Review: I guess it was worth it, to read thru this book. I stuck with it because, being employed in the health care field, I'm interested in insurance scams (the ones the insurnce companies themselves commit). The first half of the book was "deadly" (the writing and plot, not the murders) though it did pick up towards the end, with the switched data, "accidents", the envelope thing, etc. Still, not sure the book was worth it...

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Summary: A reader from Gibraltar ,October 5th,1998 .Superb.
Review: I have read Lynch's Annunciation and Carriers and thorouhly enjoyed them.This last novel has been no exception.The plot is amazinly realsitic and believale.The characters are very well portrayed and one sympathises with Alex Tynan problems. I am desperately looking for the sequel to Annunciation namely Immaculate Conception which is currently out of print.Hope to get my hands on it soon!!!!Grateful for news.

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Summary: A fiction story that is too possible
Review: I work for an insurance company. Even the employees need health insurance and that was why this book was so frightening. Where better to start than on its employees?. When DNA was discovered by Crick & Watson, that was one of the first things I thought of. The health insurance companies will soon be able to find genetic markers in its policyholders and deny insurance to those most in desperate need of it in the future, but only the company would be aware of what the future holds for those people. I notified all the Actuarials in our company as a must read novel. A super story with a realistic background.

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Summary: Atmospheric and highly original tale
Review: Most thrillers these days seem to fall into well-defined categories. As a result the scenarios, premises and even the plots start seeming pretty familiar pretty quickly. For this reason THE POLICY was for me a great treat. The world it sketched was absolutely believable and beatifully sketched, and I never really knew where the story was leading me. Only that things were going to get nastier and more disturbing as they went on. Which they did. A final bonus was that the end actually made me think, the way a real novel is supposed to. I recommend this to any lover of a good, original story.