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"Fast, furious and twisted as hell." (Mark Billingham on The Death List)"
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GENERATIONS OF EVIL Crime writer Matt Wells hasn't had much time for a career of late - he's been too busy fighting for his life. Matt's thoughts are not his own - his subconscious has been infiltrated and a single word can trigger hidden orders buried deep within Matt's memory, turning him into a killing machine. The FBI aims him at the man responsible for his conditioning: an architect of Nazi revival and devotee of the Antichurch of Lucifer Triumphant.�The man who twisted Matt's mind and took his life away. Submerged into a world rife with ritual murders and hired killers, if Matt can't trust his own mind - who can he trust? He is now both assassin and target - and either fights back or he dies.
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A satisfyingly challenging and enjoyable read, 2 Nov 2011
By Elizabeth A. White - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Nameless Dead (Matt Wells) (Mass Market Paperback)
There's more than a little scheming going on in The Nameless Dead, the fourth, and last, book in author Paul Johnston's Matt Wells series. Following their involuntary assassination attempt on the President of the United States, British crime novelist Matt Wells and his pregnant girlfriend, London Metropolitan Detective Chief Superintendent Karen Oaten, are being held by the FBI. As their activities were the result of a mind control experiment performed by a Neo-Nazi group, the FBI is working on deprogramming Wells and Oaten.Of course things wouldn't be any fun if it was that simple. So when bodies begin turning up killed in a gruesome ritualistic manner reminiscent of that Neo-Nazi group, the FBI gets the bright idea to use Wells' programming to their advantage and turn him loose to hunt down the group's leader, Heinz Rothmann, the man responsible for Wells and Oaten's predicament. As you'd expect, things don't quite go as planned.
What plays out is another wonderfully, deliciously twisted Paul Johnston special. With virtually any other author the sheer volume of activity going on in The Nameless Dead (we also have a vengeful former lover who happens to be a world-class assassin, a satanic cult, and the continuing Manchurian Candidate-esque elements) would be near impossible to handle, but not only does Johnston do so, he does it with impressive ease. Taking elements of a traditional thriller (the FBI /hero working to stop a criminal plot), horror (satanic cults, graphically detailed ritual murders), and scientific experimentation (mind control) and mashing them all together, Johnston has cornered the market on some of the most creatively intense storytelling you'll ever read.
Johnston does provide enough information in The Nameless Dead that reading the previous books in the series is not necessary, though I do think having read its immediate predecessor, Maps of Hell, at the very least will enhance your enjoyment. As with the previous books in the series, the science behind events (in this case the mind control experimentation) is explained in believable detail, and the history behind the activities of Heinz Rothmann is equally well and thoroughly presented. There is also a healthy dose of dark humor laced throughout the story, never more evident than in the breakneck final quarter of the book, allowing Wells to move forward through unbelievably grim circumstances with a sort of gallows humor.
Perhaps the most impressive feat Johnston manages to pull off, however, is the marvelous blurring of the lines of morality for each character. Just when you think Wells is a man motivated by justifiable rage and "pure" intentions he does something that pushes the boundaries of acceptable, while at the same time you'll find a ruthless assassin doing things that will make you question just how ruthless they really are. Where does a search for justice cross the line and become a quest for revenge? When does a seemingly unjustifiable act of violence become an acceptable (if pro-active) act of self-defense/preservation? Johnston constantly challenges the reader to question the very core concepts of "good" and "evil" as played out under continuously shifting circumstances of threat and loss.
Johnston's books are no place for the timid or those unwilling to deal with a story more complicated than a paint-by-numbers thriller, but if you're willing to take a step - or three - somewhat off the beaten path I guarantee you'll be hard-pressed to find a more satisfyingly challenging and enjoyable read.
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adrenaline, adrenaline and more adrenaline, 25 Mar 2011
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Nameless Dead (Matt Wells) (Mass Market Paperback)
The Feds prevent crime writer Matt Wells and his pregnant girlfriend Detective Chief Superintended Karen Oaten from killing POTUS at the National Cathedral and the Attorney General at FBI Headquarters. The pair is in custody in Illinois where agents interrogate them and try to cleanse them of the Nazi brain washing programming that led to their assassination attempts.The FBI decides to use Wells against the evil Heinz Rothmann who turned him into a killer with a one word trigger. His assignment is to kill this Neo-Nazi devotee of the Antichurch of Lucifer Triumphant. At the same time Wells begins his stalking of the SOB who took his mind away from him, his former lover Sara Robbins, sister of a serial executioner the White Devi stalks the writer. At the same time in Greenwich Village, someone brutally decapitates civil rights attorney Laurie Antoinette Simpson leaving her disemboweled corpse below a swastika; more homicides as grim follows. FBI Director Peter Sebastian wonders how his career could flush down the toilet a fast as it has with hell coming to America.
The latest Wells thriller (see The Soul Collector and Maps of Hell) is an action-packed tale that never slows down for a respite. Fast-paced, the story line contains too many subplots making it difficult to keep score as the body count grows; though they converge on the beleaguered hero. Matt is a fascinating protagonist who trusts no one; not even his pregnant girlfriend or himself as he cannot tell what thoughts and memories are his and what come from Rothmann. For Wells fans and readers who enjoy adrenaline, adrenaline and more adrenaline, they will want to join the adventures as the hero seems to be on everyone's Death List.
Harriet Klausner
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Best of the Matt Wells series, 27 Jun 2011
By Robbie Grantham - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Nameless Dead (Matt Wells) (Mass Market Paperback)
This book is by far the best of the series. In the first two novels, it was simply a crime writer and his crazy ex-girlfriend. But with these last two novels, the stakes have been heavily raised, bringing more of an urgent atmosphere. I really enjoyed how Matt was turned from a normal man into a killing machine that doesn't even know what's behind the curtain of his subconscious. Matt is now capable of anything. The lines have been blurred, and Matt goes farther than he's ever gone before. I would highly recommend this book.
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