- Paperback: 390 pages
- Publisher: Jove Books; Reprint edition (27 July 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 051513810X
- ISBN-13: 978-0515138108
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 61,246 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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GRANT Kenyon grabbed his head in his hands and pleaded, Stop asking me to kill. Read the first page
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Format:Kindle Edition
This is the fist Robert W. Walker book I have read and I am sad to say it will be the last, the story line was good, gripping almost, but the writing was a let down, I often found it confusing which characters were, and the description of each was extremely poor meaning it was hard to imagine how people were meant to look.The layout was very poor often missing speech marks. That being bad enough there were also a lot of what I hope were typing mistakes, if not then the guy really needs to go back to school.
The story line was good it was a good crime novel, the plot was good and exciting, but the mistakes ruined the whole thing for me. e.g. E)ead, which I assume is Dead, I started to make notes of all the mistakes I came across but eventually gave up as a bad job, and the guy assumes that you can put 've at the end of any word and it works.
I wasted time with this novel hoping that the mistakes would be worth it in the end, I was sadly wrong.
The story line was good it was a good crime novel, the plot was good and exciting, but the mistakes ruined the whole thing for me. e.g. E)ead, which I assume is Dead, I started to make notes of all the mistakes I came across but eventually gave up as a bad job, and the guy assumes that you can put 've at the end of any word and it works.
I wasted time with this novel hoping that the mistakes would be worth it in the end, I was sadly wrong.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
As good as it gets
2 Sep 2003
Format:Hardcover
Rather than harm his wife and child, Dr. Grant Kenyon and his alter ego "Phillip" moved out of his home in New Jersey and trolled I-95 for females. Once Grant snatched the innocent young woman, Phillip would take over and surgically cut the brain out and eat it. He believes that eating fresh human brains will increase his awareness and achieve cosmic consciousness. Grant is modeling his behavior after Daryl Thomas Chockil "The New Jersey Ghoul" who dug up the bodies of dead children in 1990 and ate a part of their brain.
He was incarcerated in a hospital for the mentally insane but has gotten out a month before the skull-digger started killing his victims. The FBI immediately focus their attention on Daryl but medical examiner Dr. Jessica Coran thinks the real killer is setting up The New Jersey Ghoul to take the fall. She persuades her superiors to look for someone who keeps logging on to Daniel's website and after a ton of digging, they find a likely suspect but Jessica almost gets herself killed when she tries to take him in.
Robert W. Walker can always be counted on to create an exciting crime thriller with a villain that readers love to hate. Told from the point of view of the killer, the audience learns that the character suffers from multiple personality disorder but he is so evil, he illicits no sympathy. The novel is also told from the protagonist's point of view and readers sympathize with her feelings of impotence and frustration as she tries to convince her superiors to go after the right person, not the easiest one to blame.
Harriet Klausner
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
I Agree with Harriet --Doesn't Get Any Better
6 Jan 2006
Format:Paperback
Grave Instinct is a huge roller-coaster ride from start to finish. It begins at lightning speed and just gets faster from there. Those who can't follow Walker's complex sentences need to go back to school. His style is similar to Martin Cruz Smith -- Gorky Park. He's closer to Faulkner than to Hemmingway. So you don't find a lotta easy sentences and you can't go out for a snack until the scene is finished, but the payoff is amazing. My favorite author and I can't wait to jump into his Absolute Instinct and his new series City for Ransom.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
What Happened???
1 Aug 2004
Format:Paperback
I eagerly awaited the release of this in paper back having read all previous Instinct books! The previous books were so well researched, Jessica was smart, savy and knew her proceedure inside out. Nothing slipped past her and she outsmarted everyone!
This book she is like a rookie patrolman. It's like someone else wrote this book and just filled it with shock value murder scenes.
Oh Mr. Walker, this is such a disappointment!
This book she is like a rookie patrolman. It's like someone else wrote this book and just filled it with shock value murder scenes.
Oh Mr. Walker, this is such a disappointment!
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