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Carregando... The Best Revenge (original: 2003; edição: 2003)de Stephen White
Informações da ObraThe Best Revenge de Stephen White (2003)
   Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.  techeditor | Apr 8, 2011 |    ) millhold | Mar 22, 2011 |  ) Boutabook | Jul 16, 2010 | ) MrsLara | Aug 24, 2009 | Psychologist Alan Gregory is treating both a man recently released from prison where he was on death row for a crime he did not commit and the FBI agent who was instrumental in obtaining his release. However, all is not what it seems. There is a scary plot of dark revenge which stems from mistaken accusations and the involvement of local police, one of whom is not at all what he seems. I would have liked to have seen Alan Gregorys cop friend Sam Purdy a bit more. (  ) Heptonj | Jul 14, 2008 | sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Pertence à sérieDr. Alan Gregory (11) Está contido emDistinctions
Fiction.
Literature.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:In a riveting new novel of psychological suspense, Stephen White shines a brilliant light on the darkness that hides just beneath the surface of ordinary lives, on the fears that cripple us and the prisons we create â??prisons of the body, mind, and spirit. A thriller of runaway tension, taps into our most closely guarded fears, taking us on a harrowing journey into a realm of terror and pain, of love gone wrong and vengeance gone mad. The Best Revenge Psychologist Alan Gregory is living through a season of discontent. With a new daughter, a wonderful wife, and a prospering career, he has little to complain about and lots of regrets: past cases that wonâ??t let him go, patients who donâ??t get better, and a growing unease with keeping secrets. But Gregory has two new patients who will drag him out of his introspectionâ??and dare him to enter a storm of injustice and revenge. FBI special agent Kelda James is a hero, a woman who as a rookie agent made a choice, drew her gun, and saved a life, taking another. Now Kelda is hiding from the world a secret pain that is gradually crippling her bodyâ??and she has turned to Alan Gregory to help free her from the prison of her pain. Then Kelda refers a patient to Gregory, who is terrifyingly dangerous to them both. Tom Clone served thirteen years on Coloradoâ??s death row for a crime he claimed he didnâ??t commitâ??until an FBI agent dug up evidence that set him free. The agentâ??s name: Kelda James. With both Kelda and Clone telling him their innermost secrets, Alan Gregory becomes the one person who can piece together an extraordinary puzzleâ??of two unsolved violent deaths of vulnerable women, of a man who may be innocent or may be very lucky, and of the strange, fatal attraction between two people trapped in a horrific plot to get revengeâ??at any price. A thriller that delivers a stunning body-blow of a surprise ending, captures lives colliding at unpredictable angles, probing the dangerous lies people tell to each other and themselves. In this astonishing work by a novelist at the height of his powers, Stephen White brilliantly blends thrilling action and breakneck pacing with unrivaled insight into t Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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I found, though, I missed plenty of clues when I thought White was just giving background at the beginning of the book. Read it carefully.
Someone is making life miserable for the ex-con. Or are they? Why is an FBI agent interested in him? How can their psychologist act ethically knowing what he knows?
A good mystery/thriller does at least three things: 1) it doesn’t make you read several chapters before the action starts; 2) it keeps you from doing anything else because you don’t want to put it down; and 3) it makes you anticipate what’s going to happen, but what happens isn’t what you anticipated. I thought this book accomplished all three of those things.
If you read it, be aware: mysteries and clues to the mysteries bigan at the beginning.
I’m happy to say that I found an author, i.e., Stephen White is a new author for me, and now I get to read the rest of what he’s written. If you like a good mystery/thriller and you haven’t read White yet, I suggest you do. (