Richard Armitage is a multi-award winning stage and screen actor best known for his role in Peter Jackson's trilogy of The Hobbit, Captain America, Alice through the Looking Glass and Oceans 8. In 2022, he starred in Netflix’s Stay Close and prior to this, The Stranger, also on Netflix. Richard voices Trevor Belmont in the Netflix series Castlevania and Logan in Marvel’s Wolverine podcast. Richard’s theatre credits include Love Love Love directed by Michael Mayer and Yael Farber’s staging of The Crucible, which earned him an Olivier Award nomination.
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The prologue is shocking. A woman running away, snow and someone shooting. This doesn't bode well for this woman. After such a strong prologue, I want more.
Sarah Collier is our first character. She has a husband, Daniel. She suffers from dementia. She was a scientist. She worked on a prototype gene therapy to fight Ebola in Africa. She has changes in her brain that show she has Alzheimer's. She is a Nobel Prize winner.
Daniel is Sarah's "loving" husband. He goes with her to Geneva so that she can sign a certain project. I didn't like Daniel. He was getting on my nerves.
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"Geneva" is a successful debut for Richard Armitage. I like the winter setting of this story. The heroes are diverse. I liked some and hated others. When reading "Geneva" I didn't really know who I could trust. Here, not everyone shot at the same goal.
If you like good thrillers, this book is for you. Here, good fights evil. What we see is not always true. When reading this book, be careful who you trust. If you trust the wrong person, you may die.