Linus Owen is a professor who lives in a conspiracy. He questions everything in front of him and wonders always if there is more at work. He has two friends who encourage and live in this type of a world and all of his work is proven right when his wife is mysteriously on a flight from New York to Brazil when she is supposed to be visiting her mother in Chicago.

For me this book was not my jam. I don't mind an unreliable character and a character who questions things, but I didn't think I could trust one thing that Linus and his friends were thinking or saying. I also felt as though there would be these random tangents about the histories of secondary characters that interrupted the narrative and kept the story from moving forward. I don't think it is Noah Hawley's writing and instead was the inner workings of his character, so I would read another book written by him.

The plot of this story was right up my alley and the moments where I felt as though the author was deep in the plot I enjoyed. I didn't quit this book because I definitely wanted to know where it would all end, but I wouldn't want another story from this character's point of view.

I am interested to go read more of his work and see if I like it better than this one.

Sorry, I couldn't get into it, and I had to leave it halfway through. Lots of extra information, unnecessary filler material and too little action in the story. It's just not my thing.

Before the Fall is a great book, so I was really looking forward to reading A Conspiracy of Tall Men. However, this book, well, to be honest, I couldn't finish it. Why? Lety me explain:

I would say that there is 25% story and the rest of the book is filler, details, unnecessary information about characters, both main and those that just show up pretty much to do a cameo. Let me give you an example: Linus, our hero in this book, meets a woman in this book and the book goes into detail about her personal life. Why? She has no large part. I do not need to know that she is single and that she likes machines more than humans. All this information dump make my head tired...

Then we have Linus and his two conspiracy friends. Sorry, but they are boring, yes you get A LOT of facts about them (just like everyone and everything else), but that doesn't make them interesting. I'm honestly surprised that Linus managed to find himself a wife in the first place...

I gave up, I just couldn't get myself to finish the book.

It's the end of the 20th century and Y2K is fast approaching. Linus Owen, a young professor of conspiracy theory at a small college just outside San Francisco, and his wife, Claudia, an advertising executive, live in nearby San Rafael. Linus believes that his is a happy marriage and when Claudia goes to Chicago for a few days to visit her mother, he is not suspicious. Until, that is, two FBI agents arrive at his office with news. Claudia has been killed. A plane bound from NYC to Brazil exploded, killing all on board. They insist that Claudia was on the plane with a man named Jeffrey Holden and Linus must accompany them to Florida to identify her body. Holden was the vice president of a pharmaceutical company. So begins a fast-paced adventure with quirky Linus to discover what really happened to Claudia -- Why was she in NYC, much less on a plane headed for Brazil? What was the nature of her relationship with Holden? Who would want to blow up the plane -- and why? Linus's two bestimmplifriends are eccentric fellow conspiracy theorists, Edward and Roy. They spring into action to assist Linus, and the three men find themselves embroiled in a mystery involving several agencies of the U.S. government, as well as a cast of supporting characters -- some nefarious -- each of whom holds a piece of the puzzle. Their journey takes them into the Southwest desert regions in search of a mysterious fringe group led by a former radio talk show host who disappeared years ago, as well as isolated regions of Nevada where locals are mysteriously disappearing and turning up dead. Linus knows that he is not crazy -- he has stumbled onto a conspiracy in which officials at the highest levels of government and industry are implicated, but he has to stay alive long enough to gather and publicize the details. The result is an epic, breakneck-paced journey for all three men that will keep readers guessing until the final shockingly dramatic page! And leads readers wondering whether Hawley's plot could be real. Although the story is set nearly a decade ago, it is no less relevant now than it was then. In fact, in light of current events, including headlines about foreign government cyber hacks, it is arguably more alarming -- and entertaining.