8401301300

840135109X

BG-1

CUATRO HOMBRES ARMADOS SECUESTRAN EL METRO 1.2.3 Y EXIGEN UN MILLÓN DE DÓLARES O MATARÁN UN REHÉN CADA MINUTO DE DEMORA EN LA ENTREGA DEL DINERO. SE PONE EN MARCHA TODO EL DISPOSITIVO DE SEGURIDAD DEL METRO DE NUEVA YORK. ( )

Such a grinding indictment of humanity that after reading it I had to look at cute cat videos for medical reasons. It's dissolution porn, like Death Wish and The Poseidon Adventure. In a way that only occurred to me after I was finished, it's also a celebration of a society that can make the trains run on time despite the apathy, betrayal and animosity of the people. And the bad guys are brought to justice. Still, my impression reading the book was that any benefit to society was accomplished because earlier generations were harder and tougher; there is a sense that it would not have been possible to take the train and hold hostages even 20 years before because nobody would have done something so crazy and the response of the police would have been to charge in and kill everybody. Like they should have done. ( )