- Mass Market Paperback: 512 pages
- Publisher: Fawcett Books; Reprint edition (1 Oct 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0345433106
- ISBN-13: 978-0345433107
- Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 3.5 x 17.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 172,775 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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“A GLASS-SHATTERING, DIESEL-FUELED, HARD-CHARGING THRILL RIDE OF A READ . . . [John Case is] a confident master working at peak performance.”
–LORENZO CARCATERRA
Author of Street Boys and Sleepers
Dr. Jeff Duran suffers from severe panic attacks whenever he ventures outside his home office. And he is inexplicably haunted by mysterious memories. Then, after a troubled patient commits suicide–and her half sister, Adrienne Cope, blames Duran–his life spirals out of control.
Suddenly targeted by unknown assassins, he and Adrienne must run for their very lives. Forced to trust each other, they must now work together to unlock the reason why one or both of them is marked for death. For beneath the intrigue lies a dark conspiracy that stretches halfway around the world–and a sinister plot that could change the course of history.
–LORENZO CARCATERRA
Author of Street Boys and Sleepers
Dr. Jeff Duran suffers from severe panic attacks whenever he ventures outside his home office. And he is inexplicably haunted by mysterious memories. Then, after a troubled patient commits suicide–and her half sister, Adrienne Cope, blames Duran–his life spirals out of control.
Suddenly targeted by unknown assassins, he and Adrienne must run for their very lives. Forced to trust each other, they must now work together to unlock the reason why one or both of them is marked for death. For beneath the intrigue lies a dark conspiracy that stretches halfway around the world–and a sinister plot that could change the course of history.
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She was in a kind of road-trance, coasting south with her eyes on the horizon, not quite listening to the radio-that was, in any case, playing songs from her infancy. Read the first page
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Don't do what I did and buy it if you've already read Trance State - it's the same book.
4 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Although not as inspired as some of his other books, notably The Genesis Code, The Syndrome is a fantastic thriller, which is not only well written but extremely thought provoking.
Highly recommended as an escapist read.
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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Kept me up all night....
3 May 2001
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I received this book from amazon.com yesterday. Last night, I intended to read just enough to find out the story line...boy, was I WRONG! Four hours later, I turned the last page and breathed a sigh of relief. I'm really sleepy at work today, but I'm happy to report that this 3rd novel by John Case (synonym for a husband/wife writing team) has lost none of the snap, crackle and pop of the first two (THE GENESIS CODE and THE FOURTH HORSEMAN).
I liked the characters in this book and thought the psychological aspect of the story was well-presented. John Case is poised to take a seat next to the best thriller writers. The stories are current, compelling and raise the hair on the back of my neck.
Enjoy!
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Ending Peters
17 May 2002
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
As with the two previous novels this husband and wife team has written, this book starts off with a bang that carries the reader away in a tsunami wave of unbelievably and seemingly unconnected events. However, once the suspense climax is reached and the sinister plot puzzled out, the authors have a hard time keeping the reader's adrenaline pumping at the same heart wrenching pace. Somehow, the actual scene where McBride enacts his revenge seems trivial, a necessary part of the story, but one the reader flies through with the hope that there is a twist that will topple what he already believes to be true and again skyurocket his manufacture of adrenaline.
I read this book while traveling via plane; it is more than adequate to keep one's attention, the premise and the facts gathered to offer the denouement are plausible and sufficiently sinister to make one wonder where and when such events actually occur. I will read another John Case thriller in the future.
I read this book while traveling via plane; it is more than adequate to keep one's attention, the premise and the facts gathered to offer the denouement are plausible and sufficiently sinister to make one wonder where and when such events actually occur. I will read another John Case thriller in the future.
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
A SPELLBINDING PAGE-TURNER
10 May 2001
Format:Hardcover
A young man doing research in Zurich walks into his supervisor's office and gives a detailed report of the project he has been working on, minutes later he is drugged, on an operating table, and had the skin removed from his face so the doctors can work on his brain.
Years later in Florida, a young woman, Nico, enters her hotel room, and from the balcony she shoots, and kills an elderly man on the ground below.
Returning home, Nico goes to see her psychologist, Dr Jeff Duran, a cutting edge psychologist who uses hypnosis to have patients re-live disturbing traumas from their past.
After her session, Nico goes home, watches television, takes a bath, and kills herself!
Adrienne Cope, Nico's half sister, blames Dr. Duran for her sister's suicide, claiming the Doctor put twisted thoughts of sexual abuse into her head. Nico remembers, as a child, her step father sexualy abusing her, and her two sisters, resulting in the one sister's death. Adrienne has no memory of this, and swears it did not happen.
Explaining to Adrienne his work technics, Duran, is in for a tough time, but none so tough as what he is about to be thrust into...as an unknown assailant enters his office and tries to kill both Andrienne, and himself.
Not knowing who was the target, Duran, and Adrienne will have to rely on each other, and work together to find out who wants them dead, and why? Also, the pair must find out why Nico killed the man in Florida, and what is the link to the researcher from Zurich. To find these answers, the pair will have to uncover secrets from Duran's own past, secrets he himself is NOT aware of!
Duran, and Adrienne discover this conspiracy reaches around the world, and underneath it all is a sinister plot that could change the course of history.
'The Syndrome' is a heart stopping thriller, that grabs hold on page one, and doesn't let go until the explosive climax. With well drawn characters, carefully constructed plot, and one shock after another 'The Syndrome' succeeds on every level of being an entertaining read.
John case is the bestselling author of 'The Genesis Code', and no doubt this new novel will sky rocket up the bestseller lists as well.
Put this book on your must read list, it is an absolute page-turning beach read!
Nick Gonnella
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