Crime writer Matt Wells could never have conjured a plot this twisted. A secretive militia running brainwashing experiments in a remote location have made him a subject. He knows they have been feeding him instructions, but why? Taunted by maddening snatches of a life he can't trust as his own - including memories of a woman he feels he should remember - Matt's accused of three gruesome murders. On the run from his kidnappers and the law, Matt must piece everything together - before it's too late.
Maps of Hell (A Matt Wells Thriller)
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"Johnston writes with horrifying power." The Times "Johnston does an expert job... Great stuff." - Guardian "There are few British thriller writers gaining more acclaim than Paul Johnston." - The times "Blood, gore and ingenious twists... I loved it." - --Kate Atkinson"
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Paul Johnston was born in Edinburgh in 1957 and studied Greek at Oxford. Paul now divides his time between the UK and Greece.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By cupcake girl
Format:Paperback
This is the 3rd book in the Matt Wells series following on from 'The Death List and 'The Soul Collector'.
I wasn't sure if i was going to like this despite loving the first 2 books because i didn't like the beginning of the story. In the first page, Matt wakes up in a cell, naked, cold and with no memory or idea of who he is. He is then tortured by his captors and made to undergo strange clockwork orangeesque experiments.
I needn't have worried because in true Paul Johnston style, the story starts to get going. Matt escapes from the institution of course, in true action hero style. Turns out he has been kidnapped by a secret militia who are conducting experiments on him and various other human guinea pigs in a secret hideaway in the forests of Maine USA, (whilst also worshipping Satan and offering human sacrifices) but why? Well, i shan't spoil that for you, read the book and find out! At the same time, a grisly murder is taking place in Washington D.C, looks like another serial killer is on the loose!
I thought this book was brillant, it has all the elements of an action thriller movie, very fast paced and extremely gruesome (that Paul Johnston must have a very warped mind to come up with this stuff) and it's also a great whodunnit, it will keep you guessing right till the very end. Matt Wells started off in the first book as an embittered crime novelist, in this he's a lean mean killing machine. Another reviewer likened him to John McLaine a'la Die Hard, well he kind of is! The reviewers who criticised this book need to lighten up, yes the story is unrealistic but it's supposed to be fun, it's not Tolstoy! if you don't like this kind of book, why did you bother to read it in the first place? It doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is. If you want to read something intelligent, go and read 'The Times'.
If you haven't read the first two novels don't despair, this can be read as a stand alone novel although I do urge you to read the others, they are that good.
I wasn't sure if i was going to like this despite loving the first 2 books because i didn't like the beginning of the story. In the first page, Matt wakes up in a cell, naked, cold and with no memory or idea of who he is. He is then tortured by his captors and made to undergo strange clockwork orangeesque experiments.
I needn't have worried because in true Paul Johnston style, the story starts to get going. Matt escapes from the institution of course, in true action hero style. Turns out he has been kidnapped by a secret militia who are conducting experiments on him and various other human guinea pigs in a secret hideaway in the forests of Maine USA, (whilst also worshipping Satan and offering human sacrifices) but why? Well, i shan't spoil that for you, read the book and find out! At the same time, a grisly murder is taking place in Washington D.C, looks like another serial killer is on the loose!
I thought this book was brillant, it has all the elements of an action thriller movie, very fast paced and extremely gruesome (that Paul Johnston must have a very warped mind to come up with this stuff) and it's also a great whodunnit, it will keep you guessing right till the very end. Matt Wells started off in the first book as an embittered crime novelist, in this he's a lean mean killing machine. Another reviewer likened him to John McLaine a'la Die Hard, well he kind of is! The reviewers who criticised this book need to lighten up, yes the story is unrealistic but it's supposed to be fun, it's not Tolstoy! if you don't like this kind of book, why did you bother to read it in the first place? It doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is. If you want to read something intelligent, go and read 'The Times'.
If you haven't read the first two novels don't despair, this can be read as a stand alone novel although I do urge you to read the others, they are that good.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I don't normally read thrillers, but having seen Paul Johnston talk at a publishing "do" a few years ago, I wanted to see what his writing was like and read "The Death List" - his first Matt Wells novel.
I quite enjoyed it. Along with some amusing barbed comments about publishers (a less than subtle dig at Hodder, I think), the plot was both entertaining and thoroughly gripping enough to make me turn a blind eye to its ultimate silliness. It made a long train journey pass very quickly.
Johnston clearly writes these books to make a few quid rather than win the Booker Prize and I don't blame him for that, but this latest novel - an attempt to break into the American market - stretches the reader's credulity to breaking point.
If you can switch off your critical faculties and ignore the cliched dialogue and absurd twists in the plot, this is still a highly entertaining, unputdownable thriller, but I would like Matt Wells to be a little less like John McClane in "Die Hard" and a little more like a real person. Johnston is a good writer who knows how to pace his narrative and engage the reader. He just needs a more plausible main character.
In spite of these criticisms, I'd still say buy the book, as there is never a dull moment!
I quite enjoyed it. Along with some amusing barbed comments about publishers (a less than subtle dig at Hodder, I think), the plot was both entertaining and thoroughly gripping enough to make me turn a blind eye to its ultimate silliness. It made a long train journey pass very quickly.
Johnston clearly writes these books to make a few quid rather than win the Booker Prize and I don't blame him for that, but this latest novel - an attempt to break into the American market - stretches the reader's credulity to breaking point.
If you can switch off your critical faculties and ignore the cliched dialogue and absurd twists in the plot, this is still a highly entertaining, unputdownable thriller, but I would like Matt Wells to be a little less like John McClane in "Die Hard" and a little more like a real person. Johnston is a good writer who knows how to pace his narrative and engage the reader. He just needs a more plausible main character.
In spite of these criticisms, I'd still say buy the book, as there is never a dull moment!
By Ollie Smith
Format:Paperback
I was going to write about how I felt conned and cheated by this book as I had selected it based on it being written by an Englishman with lots of accolades pertaining to British newspapers and awards but then finding out it was written in American, which I find so annoying, but I can summarise all my disappointment, incredulity and disbelief that this can get published and, yes, even enjoyed by some people in one short sentence: Don't waste your time with this.
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dire grstuitous almost farcical cliches so disappointed sfter earlier serirs in Greece and Edinburgh by Psul and had been looking flrwsrd to his new character
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This is surpose to be the third book but has nothing to do with the first two. When I finished reading I felt robbed, having waited for quite some time for its release this book... Read more
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