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Red Sky at Night (Mass Market Paperback)

by James W Hall (Author)
4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Del Rey Books; Reprint edition (Jul 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0440225744
  • ISBN-13: 978-0440225744
  • Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 10.6 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 883,573 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"[A] first-rate thriller. . . Hall is at his electrifying best."
"--People
"The kind of book you couldn't put down if you tried!"
"--The Washington Times
"James Hall is a master of suspense."
"--The New York Times
"You'll flip pages nervously, scanning ahead quickly . . . As always, reading Hall is a pleasure. Especially when you don't know who will be left standing at the end."
"--The Miami Herald

Synopsis
Thorn checks into a pain clinic run by a childhood friend and uncovers a series of horrifying experiments being performed on handicapped Army veterans, placing his own life in danger.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Hall's crystalline prose sparkles again, 25 April 1998
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This review is from: Red Sky at Night (Hardcover)
Each year, I treat myself to Hall's most recent novel, the only fiction author I'm not willing to wait for the paperback to come out. They are a special treat after what can be depressing days at work. Again, Hall has painted a remarkably clear and alive vision of the Florida keys. The very three-dimensional characters come alive on the page. I've always preferred Hall's villains to his heros, though in this book he makes the heros more interesting. Hmm. The quirkiest character, Pepper, is wonderful, but none of the characters here achieve the literary legend status of the villainous lovers Dougie and Elvira in what I consider Hall's best book, "Bones of Coral." OK, I'm ready for his next book!
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4.0 out of 5 stars It's a must HEAR!, 27 Aug 1998
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This was my first audiobook. It was great. The reader did an excellent job of maintaining voice differentiation, allowing me, the listener, to follow the story without becoming confused. I was able to receive a true visual of the atmosphere. I could actually feel and imagine what the characters where experiencing.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Last visit to Hall's Key West, 6 Jul 1998
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I can't help but think that James W. Hall was wronged and wounded way back when and uses that pain to fill the souls of his characters (especially Thorne) with enough angst and weltschmerz to overflow the banks of Lake Okeechobee. This particular adventure was too heavily laden with suspense-impeding character histories. I really didn't care about how the mad doctor lost his legs in Viet Nam and certainly didn't need to know about Pepper's love affair with her father. Further, these extra tidbits come at points in the novel when the reader wants the plot to resolve itself, to keep the pace flowing as fast as the speedboats the characters are chasing each other in, not to slow it down. And as much as Hall's antagonists are fun to hate, relishing each one's well deserved demise as they happen, this time around the gruesome comic book style deaths were too much. This novel reminded me of the martial arts action pictures of the 1970s - ludicrous storyline, loads of gratuitous gore and half-assed existentialism posing as philosophical profundity.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Pleasure To Read
Hall's writing style made this book a pleasure to read. Add to that, a terrific plot and characters who seem real enough to jump off the page, and you have a winner. Read more
Published on 18 Jun 1998

4.0 out of 5 stars James Hall proves he can still do first-rate work,
James hall is far and away my favorite crime novelist. He's never written a book I have not loved. Even his weakest efforts are superior - his poetic prose and vivid images, his... Read more
Published on 12 Jul 1997

5.0 out of 5 stars Charter member of the big '3' keeps pace!!!!
Not to be one-upped by Randy White or Carl Hiaasen James Hall has created another cast of less than typical characters for this latest Thorn escapade. Read more
Published on 27 Jun 1997

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When eleven dolphins, who were part of a healing experiment, are found decapitated in the Florida keys, amateur detective Thorn, who swam with the victims, decides to investigate... Read more
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