by Christian Jungersen
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An internationally bestselling thriller, The Exception dissects the nature of evil and the paranoia that drives ordinary people to commit unthinkable acts.
Four women work together for a small nonprofit in Copenhagen that disseminates information on genocide. When two of them receive death threats, they immediately believe that they are being stalked by Mirko Zigic, the Serbian torturer and war criminal they recently profiled in their articles. Yet as tensions mount among the women, their suspicions turn away from Zigic and toward each other. The threats increase, and soon the office becomes a battlefield in which each of the women's move is suspect.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 builds up to climax, 2008-01-16
The story starts off with a bang at the beginning of the book, which I like. Then, the tension slowly increases - almost like a film. There are some slow spots, but the ending is worth it. The psychology throughout the book adds a nice touch and contributes to the tension.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 Human chameleons, 2007-11-18
Highly recommended! The Exception is a novel of ideas, embedded inside a mystery. The mystery part works reasonably well, while the ideas will stay with you long after you've finished reading the book. Just how adaptable are we humans? The novel makes the case that most of us will adjust to fit our environment. If we work in an office snake pit, we'll become vipers. If we work in a professional, supportive environment, we'll tend to be exemplary co-workers. In a violent totalitarian state, most of us will join right in. It really makes one wonder about the effects of hate-filled right wing talk radio in our society today.... This book is a must read.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
astounding, 2007-11-03
I bought The Exception on a whim after seeing a positive review of it in the New Yorker this past summer, and it turned out to be possibly the best contemporary novel I've read in the last couple of years; I read the last 200 pp in a day. The prose is clean, spare, taut, the characters well drawn. The use of the Danish Center for Information on Genocide is fantastic--the novel is presented as a thriller, and it is in a way, but really it's a close examination of office politics through a masterful use of multiple points of view. I realize that description doesn't sound all that thrilling in itself, and I actually wasn't sure Jungersen would be able to adequately connect the meditations on the horrors of genocide (represented in the book through a number of DCIG articles, which appear in their entirety) with the petty gossip, backbiting, and bullying that occurs in a contained social space like an office, but the results are positively chilling and thoroughly thought-provoking. With the threatening e-mails, it's technically a whodunit, but really, whodunit is not the point. Really, it's about the darkest corners of human nature, and it's unflinching. Highly recommended.
1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Insightful, 2007-09-29
It has applications from micro to macro relationships. Very well written. Very useful fiction.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Office politics, 2007-09-26
For a five hundred page book, it's no mean feat to say that the first 400 pages that Jungersen delivers are taut, pacy and a bit on the cruel side. But why not, even though the book takes place in an office in Denmark that deals in the study of genocide, the women working there find that their own actions are softer echoes of the very crimes they examine. So far, so good. The parallels are well drawn, but the characters less so as they each begin to unravel. Jungersen presents us with the possibility that all four of his central characters are mentally damaged, a tough pill to swallow in a book that seemed rooted in reality in its opening pages. In the last hundred pages, having cooked up a tense storm in the quiet little office, Jungersen gives in to the inevitable and brings in charcters from other quarters to push the plot towards its conclusion. The conclusion, unfortunatley, is more reminscent of a hour long TV detective show than the brilliantly introspective opening chunk of the book. Still, definitely worth a read.
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