There's already a blood bath by page 50 and a main character is killed off half way with the whole thing becoming more and more preposterous. ( )

Of the Dan Simmons that I have read I must say that this is my favorite. ( )

Good but quite an odd duck.

The general plot and various climaxes are the stuff of thrillers, but the rythm and length of the book aren't really those of a thriller. It's a pretty massive book and you spend 90% of that time in protagonists' and antagonists' heads building up to those and experiencing them in minute detail, sometime from multiple perspectives.
The choice of characters is pretty archetypal (a bit unfortunately ?).
Most of the antagonists are also pretty fun choices for an author who later did such a political U-turn, there's a televangelist, an old maid who lives 200% in the past and can't even /see/ the individuality of people of color she interacts with because in her head they're all still slaves and servant material, all pretty thoroughly roasted. ( )

Una vez al año, tres ancianos se reúnen para comentar sus andanzas, pero no son personas normales, ya que son capaces de obligar con sus poderes mentales a que la gente cometa las más abyectas atrocidades contra su voluntad, y lo que comentan en esas reuniones son los frutos de su maldad.
Pero una de sus antiguas víctimas que quedó con vida ha descubierto su auténtica naturaleza, y está dispuesto a emprender una cruzada contra estos "vampiros de la mente"

I was going to say that I didn't like it. But I did finish it, and I didn't think the time on it was wasted. Most of the time anyway.