Honeymoon
[ 2006-06-27 17:13 ]
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中文譯名: 《蜜月》
Publisher: Warner Books
ISBN: 0446696269
List Price: 80 RMB
Discounted Price（優(yōu)惠價）: 72 RMB
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To be published on Valentine's Day, this solid and enjoyable but not
exceptional thriller about a Black Widow killer has been selected by
Bookspan as the "2005 International Thriller of the Year." That's
obviously jumping the gun, and probably has more to do with the unusual
sales gambit by which Bookspan was allowed to sell the book prior to
bookstore distribution than with the novel's quality. Still, megaseller
Patterson, here writing for the first time with Roughan (The Up and
Comer), again shows his usual flair for brisk narrative, strong suspense
and genuine twists in tracing the story of how FBI agent John O'Hara
tracks down serial killer Nora Sinclair.
As the novel opens,
beautiful Nora, an interior designer for the very rich, and already
wealthy after having killed her first husband for his inheritance, is
juggling an engagement to a hedge-fund manager in tony Briarcliff Manor in
upstate New York and a marriage to a bestselling author in Boston. She
intends to kill both, but chooses the hedge-fund manager first; after she
poisons him, enter O'Hara, posing as a sympathetic insurance investigator
but secretly working to nab Nora. In time, Nora seduces O'Hara, so his
attempt to catch her is compromised by lust; there's also a major subplot
involving a suitcase containing documents pointing to more than a billion
dollars transferred to Cayman Islands banks, a subplot fully tied into the
main plot only near book's end. O'Hara and particularly Nora stand as two
of Patterson's most complex characters yet, but the narrative, while
nearly impossible to stop reading, doesn't have the emotional pull of the
author's Alex Cross novels or some of his Women's Murder Club titles. This
is one canny thriller, though, and Patterson's millions of fans will be
most pleased. Expect sky-high sales. |
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