No Man's Land (John Puller Series 4) by David Baldacci

" John Puller is a serious detective with the Army's Criminal Investigation Agency. He does superb work and always gets his man. But there is one case that he has really never looked into and that is the case of his own mothers disappearance 30 years previous. He was just a young boy when his mom disappeared and he has never really thought about solving the crime. But when someone comes forward to accuse his father of killing his mother that gets his interest. He doesn't want to see his father's reputation destroyed and besides he can't believe that his father would kill his mother. This sets him on a course of investigation that leads to a serial murder, Department of Defense experimental science and possibly a meltdown in his own views of his father, who wasn't where he said he was the night that John's mother disappeared. The most interesting part of the novel is the details regarding Liquid Armour, Ekoskeletions and synthetic skin. Further there was an experiment to make a super soldier, one that couldn't feel pain and one that didn't fear combat. Did that really happen? If so, is there a connection to John's family and his mothers disappearance? The technology as well as the mystery makes for a very entertaining and enlightening novel. I ended up after the novel doing some online searches for DoD science experiments and want to find out more about these new technologies....."

John Puller 시리즈 네 번째 작품이다. 이번에는 주인공의 어머니에 대한 이야기다. 장편소설, 스릴러장르, 스파이장르, 가족장르에 해당하는 작품이다. 연속살인, 콜드케이스, 불화, 회개, 행방불명, 화해, 재회, 사이코, 복수, 슈퍼솔저, 생체실험, 불운, 명예, 자살, 은폐, 암살, 특허, 전우, 배신, 가족, 클럽, 대역 등이 작품을 이해하는데 중요한 의미를 가지는 단어들인 거 같다. 만화 같은 면도 있지만 이야기 자체가 재밌기 때문에 집중해서 읽을 수 있는 작품이다. 문장의 구조나 표현등이 난해하지 않고 전작들보다 읽기 편해진 거 같다.