- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Warner Books (May 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0446531510
- ISBN-13: 978-0446531511
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.4 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,567,284 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Land of the Living is the latest thriller from the husband-and-wife team of journalist Nicci Gerrard and writer Sean French. They have produced (as Nicci French) several first-rate novels of psychological suspense, such as The Red Room, Beneath the Skinand Killing Me Softly.
Land of the Living is possibly their most assured outing yet, with all the carefully crafted plotting and assiduous characterisation that has distinguished their earlier work. The basic situation is intense and immediate: Abbie Devereux wakes up and finds herself hooded and bound, with no idea of how she ended up in this terrifying state. She is tended to by a man she never sees: a man who makes the promise that he will eventually kill her "like the others". Abbie is forced to re-examine aspects of her identity, her career and the dying relationship she had with her boyfriend. The struggle for survival is physical and mental. If French's compelling novel owes more than a little to John Fowles' masterpiece The Collector, it is none the worse for that. And the delineation of extreme mental states has all the disturbing assurance of Patricia Highsmith. --Barry Forshaw --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Abbie Devereaux wakes in the dark. She is hooded and bound, with no idea where she is or how she got there. Kept alive by a man she never sees, his only promise is that eventually he will kill her - like the others. But Abbie has spirit and bloody-mindedness on her side. She counts the seconds spent alone and plots her survival. Above all she dreams of returning to normal, careless, everyday life - the land of the living. Grasping at memories, Abbie recalls snatches of her identity, her career, and her disintegrating relationship with her boyfriend. Is there a connection between her real life and the voice in the darkness? And how can she survive in a place where fear becomes madness and the effort to survive seems too much to bear?
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Maddening!,
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This review is from: Land of the Living (Paperback)
Have you ever laid down your keys in one moment and within the next you havent got a clue where to find them? Searching frantically high and low? Maddening isn't it?! Until of course the moment you find them again and what a relief! Thats the main gist of this story but on a much larger scale of course. Abbie Devereaux opens her eyes to find herself at the hands of a sadistic captor.She's tied, bound gagged and hooded with a wire noose around her neck. After days of terror and degradation she returns to the 'land of the living' looking for help and protection from the police and the medical authorities. But she is met with nothing but disbelief and accusations of self delusion. In short, everybody (almost)including the police, the medical specialists and even her beloved best friends doubt her sanity and she almost faces charges of wasting police time. Its here that the story really takes off. We spend time with Abbie who starts out with nothing barely an identity that she can recall and faces a total memory block of people faces places and names leading upto the terror of captivity. But she knows he's out there! An he knows that she knows and he's out to get her!If you like mystery and suspense, join with Abbie in a freezing cold, dark wintery London and put back the peices of the jig saw of the terror which remains out there....watching and looking, hidden and dangerous!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Psychological suspense at its best,
By Sabrina (Berlin) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Land of the Living (Perfect Paperback)
Abbie Devereaux wakes up one day and finds she can't move. She can't see anything either and she seems to have lost a crucial bit of her memory. She runs through all possible scenarios and arrives at the obvious one : She's been kidnapped. As to why and how she still does not know. Her captor shows up once per day and feeds her, only to disappear again and to leave her (and the reader) to her thoughts in the darkness. Well, if that doesn't make you feel claustrophobic, I don't know what will. For me at least it was one of the most intense reading experiences so far. Actually at one point I was worried that the whole book would be like that, Abbie lying in the darkness, trying to think of escape and struggling to keep her sanity. To answer that question, she does escape, but that doesn't necessarily mean her ordeals are over. She tries to get her life back and most of all to fill those blanks in her memory. All the time knowing that the kidnapper is still around and may still be after her. Abbie seems to be a typical Nicci French protagonist. A business woman with hidden qualities that surface under stress. Well, I have no problem with that, I took an instant liking to all of them so far. And even if you think that Abbie is not determined, only stubborn, it still makes for very interesting and captivating reading. This may be the best psychological thriller by the Nicci French team yet.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Stunning,
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This review is from: Land of the Living (Paperback)
This is the first book of Nicci French's I have read. I shall immediately get all her other books. It was exciting, well written and although some have criticised the ending I thought it was quite realistic. A woman, on her own, how else would she effectively disable a man. I won't reveal what she does but suffice to say when she was his captive in the first pages of the book I was actually willing her to do just that should the chance present itself. A great read. I couldn't put it down.
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