This is one of the rare moments where a television series outstrips its source material. The prose is filled with Nunn's usual heft and solid pacing at the beginning, but it starts to drift off halfway through the book. Nunn also either peeled away too much of his characters veneer or tried to have one too many antiheroes in the same book. It's not unreadable, and it was fun. But the suspense and the idea of playing to a psychological thriller were not carried out to the end.

Quis ler esse livro pra ter uma ideia do que esperar da nova série produzida pelo Hulu, baseada nessa obra, com Hugh Laurie no papel principal. A estreia será no dia 19 de outubro de 2016.

Pessoalmente, eu espero que a série tenha uma dinâmica mais atrativa. O livro, embora seja interessante, se torna muito cansativo em alguns momentos por conter detalhes demais. Não faz muito o meu estilo de leitura, mas acho que a história tem um bom potencial para as telas.

**1/2

Un livre intriguant, un thriller loin des clichés.
Certaines des scènes sont difficiles à inventer (ce que l'auteur fait dire à son personnage principal -comme un clin d'oeil au lecteur-) et pourtant, les voilà, incongrues, presque drôles tellement elles sont tragiques.
J'ai aimé les 3/4 du roman.
La fin me laisse sur ma faim, le dernier quart est long, tout en flou. Dommage.

Good, but the show is better.

I've stayed a fan of Nunn's through his shakier works, but this new novel is a real challenge. It's as if he has literally forgotten how to write. Never a master of believable or well-structured plot, here he loses control of style and character as well, so what remains is a something like a Dean Koontz/Stephen King piece, minus the usually focused premise, but plus the occasional turn of memorable phrase.

'Chance' opens with a setting, character, and theme quite removed from Nunn's typical fare, though it quickly becomes the same old descent into violent underground madness. But that setting is neither believable not a great idea in itself; who, in 2014, writes a noir/crime tale carried by multiple personality disorder, hallucinations, etc? Oy.

3.5. Gillian Flynn-y, but not quite as suspenseful and much more confusing.

I really enjoyed this. The plot seems like a very conventional, classic noir. But there was something about its execution that made it seem fresh. I don't have much else to add at the moment. Feeling a bit feverish. But I just wanted to go on the record as having like it.