- Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Minotaur Books,US; Reprint edition (2 Sep 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312357419
- ISBN-13: 978-0312357412
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 157,438 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Koryta is one of the best of the best, plain and simple."--Michael Connelly
"With "Envy the Night," Koryta earns a seat at the high table of neo-noir crime writers."--"The New York Times"
"A heart-pounding thriller." --"Boston"" Globe"
"Koryta's best work to date." --George Pelecanos
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In the seven years since he learned that his U.S. marshal father led a double life as a contract killer - and committed suicide to avoid prosecution - Frank Temple III has mostly drifted through life. But when he learns that Devin Matteson, the man who lured his father into the killing game only to later give him up to the FBI, is returning to the isolated Wisconsin lake that was once sacred ground for their families, it's a homecoming Frank can't allow. Frank finds Matteson's old cabin occupied by a strange, beautiful woman and a nervous man with a gun. But with a pair of assassins arrives on the heels, he knows Matteson can't be far behind. The wise move would be to get out of town - but that doesn't feel right. After all, contract killer or not, Frank's father was at heart a teacher. And his son was an excellent student.
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
...then you'll love Koryta. Absolutely top-notch thriller with a plausible hero, a tight & taut plot and a great finish. This is the second of this author's novels I have read and he has a storytelling quality and ability to match the likes of Stephen King, Gerald Seymour and Robert Crais.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
A grand slam homer of a book!
17 Aug 2008
Format:Hardcover
I really wasn't all that happy to learn that this book wasn't going to be a fourth installment in Koryta's Lincoln Perry series. Well, I guess I needed my head examined because this book stretches so far beyond the Perry books, in voice (Koryta has successfully made the jump to 3rd person POV), in characterization, in tight and ORIGINAL plotting (something he had already mastered and which I thought he could not have improved on yet HAS done so to a degree that is mind-boggling!), that I not only did not miss Lincoln Perry, I'm not sure that I even want Koryta to back track to those books. If he has more of these kinds of books in him, then everyone should just stand back and give him plenty of elbow room. His earlier books amazed me for their mature writing, but this book is something very, very special. Koryta isn't just the kid-brother author any longer to writers like Crais, Lehane, Connelly. He's their equal and maybe then some.
Synopsis: Frank Temple II, the son of a dead FBI agent/contract killer, wants to go after the mobster who ruined his father. But nothing is that simple in this book; when you think you can predict where Koryta is going in this story guess again, and then guess again. And you'll probably need to guess again. Temple is a perfectly written 3D character, young and smart, but not so smart that you disbelieve him. The turns in plot absolutely demand this story be written in third person, a new stretch for the author, and one he manages so handily, so naturally, that I am awestruck and left wondering how much more does Koryta have in the think-tank still to come in his work.
I'm a little jealous (not of Koryta; of him I am a LOT jealous) of those who pick this book up and read Koryta's work for the first time. It's just that good.
Synopsis: Frank Temple II, the son of a dead FBI agent/contract killer, wants to go after the mobster who ruined his father. But nothing is that simple in this book; when you think you can predict where Koryta is going in this story guess again, and then guess again. And you'll probably need to guess again. Temple is a perfectly written 3D character, young and smart, but not so smart that you disbelieve him. The turns in plot absolutely demand this story be written in third person, a new stretch for the author, and one he manages so handily, so naturally, that I am awestruck and left wondering how much more does Koryta have in the think-tank still to come in his work.
I'm a little jealous (not of Koryta; of him I am a LOT jealous) of those who pick this book up and read Koryta's work for the first time. It's just that good.
37 of 43 people found the following review helpful
Believe the hype!
20 Aug 2008
Format:Hardcover
What do you hope to get out of a book when you pick it up off the shelf (or click on it)? Well-written dialogue? In-depth, interesting, and unique characters? Intense and page-turning action? Well-placed humor? Moral debates that make you question what you would do in the given situation? Writing that grabs you and takes you along for the ride?
It is not often that you can get all of those qualities in one book, but Michael Koryta again has given us a thriller with such vivid writing and complex characters that "Envy the Night" answers YES to each of those questions.
The real question is: What are you waiting for? "Envy the Night" is a first-class crime/suspense novel and has me greatly anticipating Koryta's next endeavor.
It is not often that you can get all of those qualities in one book, but Michael Koryta again has given us a thriller with such vivid writing and complex characters that "Envy the Night" answers YES to each of those questions.
The real question is: What are you waiting for? "Envy the Night" is a first-class crime/suspense novel and has me greatly anticipating Koryta's next endeavor.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Don't Miss This Thriller
20 Aug 2008
Format:Hardcover
I am so happy to see that other readers loved this book as much as I did. I have read all four of his books and like one reviewer said, he just keeps getting better. I won't write a synopsis because the other reviewers have done such as excellent job as well as outlining why this book is a "must" for crime/thriller readers. It is not only a believable scenario, but incorporates tension, humor, good characterization, etc. It is highly touted by such well known authors as Ridley Peason, Michael Connelly and George Pelecanos. Please give this author his due as he seems to fit with the best of them.
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