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Fear Itself (Paperback)

by Jonathan Nasaw (Author)
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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd (7 July 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0743231589
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743231589
  • Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,000,212 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A riveting psychological thriller from the author of THE GIRLS HE ADORED. Just as he's celebrating his last day on the job, FBI agent E L Pender receives a letter from Dorie Bell. Dorie is afraid. Eighteen months ago she attended a convention in Las Vegas for Persons with Specific Phobia Disorder. Since then, three of the delegates have died in suspicious circumstances. Carl Polander had acrophobia. Fear of heights. So what would he be doing on the 19th floor of the building the police say he jumped from? Mara Agajanian had haemophobia. Fear of blood. So how could she have cut her own wrists in the bathtub? Kimberly Rosen had pnigophobia. Fear of suffocation. She was fished out of a canal - but there was no water in her lungs. Dorie, who is a prosoponophobia, suffering from an irrational fear of masks, wants Pender to look into these cases. She suspects that someone who attended the convention is killing people with phobias. She's right. But she has no idea just how close to her the killer is...

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The author of the terrifying serial killer thriller, THE GIRLS HE ADORED, also featuring FBI agent E L Pender, Jonathan Nasaw lives in Pacific Grove, California.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Finally a serial killer original..., 2 May 2004
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This review is from: Fear Itself (Paperback)
I'll admit that just before I read this book I said I was serial-killered out. Boring and passé. The days of the serial killer thriller were over for me.

But what a page turner and what an original! There's no mystery to be solved here, it's a chase novel - will they won't they catch him? Will the main characters, who we grow to love, be saved? They are all suffering from some sort of phobia and their deaths reflect this. And there's another reason for originality. My God, the main character is just on the point of retiring and there's a love story - and she's not at least twenty years younger than him with the perfect body and no obvious hang ups. Pender is simply wonderful and Dorie, a good match for him.

The characterisations in this book are excellent and they are what spurs the story along. They also add another dimension to the book. We may have an absolutely awful villain but he has a very special relationship with his sister who has Down's Syndrome. She has the innocence of child and is struggling. Her brother is the product of a tortured childhood (OK, so what's new there?), but he's not initially so easy to hate because of the way he looks after his sister.

I haven't read "The Girls He Adored", but I want to now. As for serial-killered out - well I opened the door and had a very good read with this book. I'm glad I didn't let prejudice get in the way. Interesting too, to discover so many phobias that I had no clue existed. But I'll stop here before my phobia about exceeding Amazon's review word count kicks in.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Fear Itself - a good title, 26 July 2003
This review is from: Fear Itself (Hardcover)
This is a story of a man who finds out peoples fears and kills them using the fear. It is edgy and cruel but it held me in suspense during all of one hot day. The story also features a couple who find themselves bound together to find the man responsible for the murders, these two also have phobias of their own which he manipulates at every turn. A good chilling read well recommended for someone who has the time to read it in one go- you'll have to!
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Fear Itself - not as good as the blurb suggests, 9 Mar 2004
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After really enjoying The Girls he Adored, I had been patiently waiting for the release of this book. Finally at the airport I spotted it. I did enjoy it but the blurb on the back of the book was only mentioned in passing in the actual novel and one of the pieces of info was wrong anyway. The problem is knowing who the killer is so early on which doesn't add much suspense. I did find it difficult to put it down and read it in a couple of days but it was not as gripping as his first one.
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4.0 out of 5 stars What are you afraid of???
I enjoyed this book, the Pender character is fantastic. The storyline was so chilling and exciting and whats more it was original. Read more
Published 9 months ago by G. Davies

4.0 out of 5 stars A good thriller
The premise of this book was so dark and original that I couldn't wait to read it. It was definitley readable and the plot flowed differently to most crime thrillers but I did... Read more
Published on 16 Jun 2005 by K. Wilson

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