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So fast it should come with an airbag (Linwood Barclay )
Outstanding in every way (Lee Child )
Tough, well-written and memorable as hell (James Patterson )
A quantum leap forward in suspense (Dennis Lehane )
Outstanding in every way (Lee Child )
Tough, well-written and memorable as hell (James Patterson )
A quantum leap forward in suspense (Dennis Lehane )
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'Pure stay-up-all-night suspense' Harlan Coben 'Outstanding' Lee Child 'Thriller writing at its best' Tess Gerritsen 'Tough, true, well-written, and memorable as hell' James Patterson 'Gripping' Michael Connelly 'A quantum leap forward in suspense literature' Dennis Lehane 'You're Next is an emotionally evocative, page-turning exploration of human corruption at its worst. Chilling and riveting' Jonathan Kellerman
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77 of 81 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
"This is a fast-paced, exciting thriller. A great read for a bit of escapism, suspense, and the occasional suspension of disbelief at the turn of events! A man with an uncertain past who has made good, has a lovely family, finds his pleasant world under sudden attack, but who from, and why? This is a real page-turner, short snappy chapters that kept me reading just one more..!
Will look out for more by this author.
I like Linwood Barclay novels too and think this is along those lines, similar tense plot and chase by the fraught but heroic main character to save his family, find the bad guys and discover the truth."
Will look out for more by this author.
I like Linwood Barclay novels too and think this is along those lines, similar tense plot and chase by the fraught but heroic main character to save his family, find the bad guys and discover the truth."
22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
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I loved this and the story really kept me in suspense. I couldn't work out why the baddies were after Mike and his daughter and when it was revealed, I was very surprised. But this is what keeps you reading. It is very well written with brilliant characters and totally gripping plot. Brilliant.
37 of 40 people found the following review helpful
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Thrillers don't get much more tense than when a child's welfare is threatened and in Gregg Hurwitz's You're Next there are two. One is the daughter of Mike Wingate, a property developer who has made a few mistakes in his life, but nothing so serious that his eight year-old daughter Kat should be threatened by two particularly nasty individuals. What is even more worrying to Mike is that the police seem more interested in him than in going after the criminals. The other child whose life has been jeopardised is Mike himself, the novel flashing back to show the strange circumstances in which he was abandoned as a child and left to fend for himself in a care home. There are a lot of gaps in Mike's past and it looks like someone is trying to fill them in for him. And not in a friendly way either.
Hurwitz knows that the emotive angle works well in this type of situation (there's a similar filling in the gaps situation in I See You where a man may have killed his ex-fiancée during a blackout), but particularly in a childhood context, and he manages to continually ramp up the tension to near fever pitch. But while he pushes the right buttons, the author also manages to show a great deal of originality in his playing out of the situation and in the characterisation. Nothing is gratuitously thrown in for thrills. There are a few shortcuts taken in Mike's progress from petty criminal to successful businessman and contented family man, but the gaps are where the heart of the conflict lies, establishing who Mike is and how he deals with the crisis when it comes to the crunch.
For every thriller cliché then, Hurwitz has an antidote. The typical big, silent thug, Dodge, is the sidekick to a villain with Cerebral Palsy. And to counterbalance Mike, we have his childhood partner-in-crime Shep on one side, warning him not to trust the system, and on the other another good friend, Hank, a PI who urges him to do the right thing. This presents Mike with some difficult choices, but a reconciliation needs to be made between his past and the present, because there in the middle is Kat, who, unless he chooses right, could find herself in the exact same position as Mike all those years ago. That's a neat parallel - a little too neat maybe - but it makes the nature of the high stakes at play here perfectly clear, and provides a whole lot of thrills, tension and suspense.
Hurwitz knows that the emotive angle works well in this type of situation (there's a similar filling in the gaps situation in I See You where a man may have killed his ex-fiancée during a blackout), but particularly in a childhood context, and he manages to continually ramp up the tension to near fever pitch. But while he pushes the right buttons, the author also manages to show a great deal of originality in his playing out of the situation and in the characterisation. Nothing is gratuitously thrown in for thrills. There are a few shortcuts taken in Mike's progress from petty criminal to successful businessman and contented family man, but the gaps are where the heart of the conflict lies, establishing who Mike is and how he deals with the crisis when it comes to the crunch.
For every thriller cliché then, Hurwitz has an antidote. The typical big, silent thug, Dodge, is the sidekick to a villain with Cerebral Palsy. And to counterbalance Mike, we have his childhood partner-in-crime Shep on one side, warning him not to trust the system, and on the other another good friend, Hank, a PI who urges him to do the right thing. This presents Mike with some difficult choices, but a reconciliation needs to be made between his past and the present, because there in the middle is Kat, who, unless he chooses right, could find herself in the exact same position as Mike all those years ago. That's a neat parallel - a little too neat maybe - but it makes the nature of the high stakes at play here perfectly clear, and provides a whole lot of thrills, tension and suspense.
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Your Next .. Excellent!
This book kept me enthralled, it is fast paced, believable characters and very readable. I am a fan and have already read my second book by this author and ready to download the... Read more
Published 2 days ago by jan x
Top-drawer thriller
Couldn't tear myself away from this book. It was brilliant. My favourite bit was the interaction between Shep and Dr Cha in the hospital. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Sid
Enjoyable once it kicks off
This book was really slow to start. I didn't really understand what was going on and it seemed a bit dull - then all of a sudden, it all kicked off and it was very... Read more
Published 1 month ago by G o' 'fax
Good, well paced yarn.
Enjoyable read from start to finish. The characters are believable and Hurwitz has a good writing style that makes you care about them - even the main villains had a clinical... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Harvey
Gripping!!!
I really got into this book from the first page!!! it is very gripping and easy to read at the same time. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Joanne
Fast paced plot
I absolutely loved this. I tend to be a bit picky about thrillers - there are so many out there and some of them are quite formulaic - but this grabbed my attention and hung on. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Debs
Implausible
After quite a good first half, the story stretches credulity when we find the reason the main character (and his relations) is being persecuted, and hunted. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Troy Beal
I got bogged down at the beginning
Readers usually make their minds up about a book if it grabs their attention from the beginning. I got rather bogged down, and very nearly gave up, up to the point where Mike was... Read more
Published 3 months ago by I. Macleod
Beejay
This was the second Gregg Hurwitz book I have read and what a read it is. I thought the characters were creative and believable. What acracking read, I loved it
Published 3 months ago by Beejay
Couldnt get into it
This is probably a really good book from all the other reviews that I have read but I really couldnt get into it. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Selina
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