- Paperback: 244 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (Jun 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312328265
- ISBN-13: 978-0312328269
- Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,711,971 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I am amazed this novel is not more popular. It's a riveting read. Very well written with confidence, insight and great humour. It combines elements of Hitchcock with sensitivity and a sense of humour a la Tony Parsons. I highly recommend it!
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wild thriller
8 Jun 2005
Format:Paperback
In Richmond on the Thames, twenty-something Mark Madden owns a bookstore that sells rare books. After the "Son of God" destroys a "dirty" book, he gets into an incident in the nearby park resulting in a wacko punching him in the forehead. The EMTs take him to the hospital where the cops react the same way as they did with the burned book insisting he is lucky to still breathe. At the hospital Caro Sewell sits down next to Mark; she was his girlfriend for six months when he was eighteen until she dumped him to blow a teacher.
Caro admits she owes him eighteen months as every two years she reinvents herself and drops her boyfriend. To his shame the mousy Mark still wants her and loves her. Caro teases him about his anal lists that he draws up on nonsensical subjects, but also offers him a test of his love for her. She draws up a list: 1) father; 2) Warren; and 3) Jesus. If he kills the trio she will give him the year and half he did not have with her that she owes him. Although he fears prison he is obsessed with Caro, will Mark go mad with or without her?
This is a wild thriller that stars a strange lead couple. Readers will keep on going in one sitting to learn whether Mad Mark Madden will choose love and death or the collective safe route. Fans will believe his choice and his follow-up as David Bowker leaves his audience pondering how bad someone can become if the price is right.
Harriet Klausner
Caro admits she owes him eighteen months as every two years she reinvents herself and drops her boyfriend. To his shame the mousy Mark still wants her and loves her. Caro teases him about his anal lists that he draws up on nonsensical subjects, but also offers him a test of his love for her. She draws up a list: 1) father; 2) Warren; and 3) Jesus. If he kills the trio she will give him the year and half he did not have with her that she owes him. Although he fears prison he is obsessed with Caro, will Mark go mad with or without her?
This is a wild thriller that stars a strange lead couple. Readers will keep on going in one sitting to learn whether Mad Mark Madden will choose love and death or the collective safe route. Fans will believe his choice and his follow-up as David Bowker leaves his audience pondering how bad someone can become if the price is right.
Harriet Klausner
Quick read
11 Jun 2011
Format:Paperback
This was a quick read. Quite a bit of tension and action, but not a lot of depth. The writing style seemed like it was translated from a screenplay. Definitely an original plot.
Novel
2 Mar 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
A great read! An exciting and unusual book that holds your interest from the very beginning to the last page.
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