Review: Lies

I read this book with an open mind. I was gob smacked. That this could happen in the 21st century is perverted and wrong. Technology is a good thing -- or not. In Logan's world, technology is equated with laziness and getting their man. The teacher who is central to this scenario is thrown on the bonfire  and nearly loses his freedom.  

How would you react in this situation? Try to find the missing husband to clear yourself or turn yourself in to the police and wait for them to fashion a noose, put it around your neck, and drop you through the hole in the scaffold? That is what his attorney wants him to do and which he fails to do on every score. That is what makes Logan's book not only timely but all too real. 

The police and his boss at the school were more interested in Facebook and what they wanted him to do to protect their "face". At least the Japanese allowed you to commit hara kiri, kill yourself with your own hand, before you lose, and consequently they, lose face. Put your job/social status/and everyone else first. That is also what is so disturbing about this book. It looks like the bad guy is winning. 

Do not be disturbed. In the end, the bad guy loses in a surprising twist that pits a child against the oh-so-smart adults. Bravo! T. M. Logan has indeed put together a killer plot with a unlooked for surprise ending. If only the main protagonist had followed his first thought, the book would have been over sooner and would not have ended with such a kick in the head. 
 
I've not read anything else T. M. Logan has written, but I applus this first evidence of a ripping story.  I will look for his books in the future. I need something else as good to read. And I'm always reading.