Book Review

True Believers

Doug Richardson
Reviewed by Charles Winecoff | Jun 25, 1999
EW's GRADE
D

Details Writer: Doug Richardson; Genres: Fiction, Mystery and Thriller

It's hard to believe that the screenwriter of such testosterone-pumping flicks as Die Hard 2 and Money Train could have written True Believers, a stale pastiche of a thriller. Mixing elements of Rosemary's Baby, Helter Skelter, and Frantic, Richardson's paint-by-numbers plot deals with a vice presidential candidate whose pregnant wife gets kidnapped by a cult of New Age nutjobs. Even Washington sex scandals fail to lend the novel the reality it so desperately needs. D

Originally posted Jun 25, 1999 Published in issue #491-492 Jun 25, 1999 Order article reprints

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