- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (25 Jan 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140297391
- ISBN-13: 978-0140297393
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 11.7 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,754,796 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Peter Abrahams tells an intricate tale of a seemingly innocent plan that takes a deadly turn, putting three young students on a collision course with a desperate criminal.
From the Author
Nietzsche, my Mom, and I
Nietzsche said: "Youth as such is something that falsifies and deceives." I've wanted to write a crime novel with a university setting for some time, and knew that Nietzsche's thought would play a role - how well he fits the undergraduate years, one of those perfect but troubling fits, like sex and regret. I also knew there'd be a labyrinth of dangerous tunnels beneath the campus, a place where the hidden natures of Nat and Grace and Izzie might be revealed. (Too much of my own college career was spent in tunnel exploration. They were pretty scary, and that was without anyone like Freedy lurking in the darkness. Are there tunnel networks under British universities?) Crying Wolf is the first book of mine in which I've had a character say something verbatim that I heard in real life. Helen Uzig's exit line at the dinner party is a piece of advice my late mother gave me when I was about Nat's age and needed to hear it (even if I didn't know it then). She also taught me most of what I know about writing - the surprise that comes three lines after Helen's exit is her kind of thing exactly. Thanks, Mom.
Nietzsche said: "Youth as such is something that falsifies and deceives." I've wanted to write a crime novel with a university setting for some time, and knew that Nietzsche's thought would play a role - how well he fits the undergraduate years, one of those perfect but troubling fits, like sex and regret. I also knew there'd be a labyrinth of dangerous tunnels beneath the campus, a place where the hidden natures of Nat and Grace and Izzie might be revealed. (Too much of my own college career was spent in tunnel exploration. They were pretty scary, and that was without anyone like Freedy lurking in the darkness. Are there tunnel networks under British universities?) Crying Wolf is the first book of mine in which I've had a character say something verbatim that I heard in real life. Helen Uzig's exit line at the dinner party is a piece of advice my late mother gave me when I was about Nat's age and needed to hear it (even if I didn't know it then). She also taught me most of what I know about writing - the surprise that comes three lines after Helen's exit is her kind of thing exactly. Thanks, Mom.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Stephen King describes Peter Abrahams as his favourite thriller writer in America. I don't get it. I read A Perfect Crime and thought it was ok, but this was a major disapointment. At times it came across as a very poor attempt at doing a Secret History, but the characters are unengaging and the plot is unbelievably flimsy. I thought thrillers had got past the point of the old 'which twin is it' ruse, but no, it's churned out once again as though it's a brilliant plot twist. That the hero is too stupid to see it would work for a page, but it's dragged on and on and on. There's little or no tension in the first 80% of the book and when it DOES arrive it relies too much on coincidence, and even then fails to engage really.
Not recommended.
Not recommended.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This was a strange book in that it was like an opera with an hour long overture and one song. The first six eighths ambled along in a dream-like way and then suddenly the plot was upon us! Not that the book wasn't enjoyable, on the contrary. Nevertheless it could have been cut down to a good short story, or padded out to become a novel, but in the end ended up neither........!
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The way the book moves from chapter to chapter was amazing to me (I was only young but this stuck with me) It moves slowly slowly at first, and there seems to be no connection between the two stories that are apparently being told. Then it picks up the pace and before you know it, everything's happening. Very engaging writing style and a great story,
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