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Diminished Responsibility Kindle Edition
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Geoffrey Tøye
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How far would you go to avenge the ones you love?
Joh Ballinger’s wife has been killed by a drunken driver, and now, barely six months later, his daughter has been murdered by a religious psychopath.
For Ballinger, a precision gunsmith who makes some of the most accurate weapons in the world, the due process of the law is not enough.
Police custody would not be adequate protection for his daughter’s killer, not if they took him up into the Welsh mountains to locate her grave…
Does one evil justify another?
Diminished Responsibility explores the process of grief and how that can lead to revenge.
“… excitingly recounted with enough attention to detail on ballistics, boats and geography to satisfy the most demanding reader.” – The Sunday Times
Geoffrey Tøye was for many years a freelance photojournalist, and well-known especially for his highly informed articles on sailing, archery and high-powered air-guns. His first novel, the thriller Diminished Responsibility was a great success, and also appeared in translation abroad, most notably in Germany where it became a best-seller.
Joh Ballinger’s wife has been killed by a drunken driver, and now, barely six months later, his daughter has been murdered by a religious psychopath.
For Ballinger, a precision gunsmith who makes some of the most accurate weapons in the world, the due process of the law is not enough.
Police custody would not be adequate protection for his daughter’s killer, not if they took him up into the Welsh mountains to locate her grave…
Does one evil justify another?
Diminished Responsibility explores the process of grief and how that can lead to revenge.
Praise for Geoffrey Tøye
“… excitingly recounted with enough attention to detail on ballistics, boats and geography to satisfy the most demanding reader.” – The Sunday Times
Geoffrey Tøye was for many years a freelance photojournalist, and well-known especially for his highly informed articles on sailing, archery and high-powered air-guns. His first novel, the thriller Diminished Responsibility was a great success, and also appeared in translation abroad, most notably in Germany where it became a best-seller.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date13 July 2017
- File size5855 KB
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Product details
- ASIN : B073XPV9GK
- Publisher : Lume Books (13 July 2017)
- Language : English
- File size : 5855 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 355 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: 909,944 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 15,575 in Crime Thrillers (Kindle Store)
- 31,347 in Suspense Thrillers
- 111,876 in Thrillers (Books)
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 November 2019
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This was a well written story with plausible characters. In many ways it’s worth a five, but there is one significant failing. In places the author shows how much he knows of his subject to the point where I simply skimmed entire pages. This was particularly the case when he wrote about firearms and geographical locations. Sometimes, less is more and much of the detail added nothing to the story.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 July 2020
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Dredged up from 1990 when this book was originally published.I found it to be interesting at times but not consistently so.
Often read like an instruction manual which was written
with a grinding precision.The latter part of the book quickly adopted themes that were oh so familiar and became predictable.
Often read like an instruction manual which was written
with a grinding precision.The latter part of the book quickly adopted themes that were oh so familiar and became predictable.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 December 2018
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Very good book
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 October 2003
Absolutely gripping, a book that you won't want to put down. Living in the area where the book is centred on made it all the more interesting for me. A story of never ending suspense, right to the very end it will keep you guessing. I don't want to go into any detail about the book otherwise it would spoil it for you if you like a good mystery. The writer succeeds in painting such a realistic picture of every detail you feed you are really in there with him.
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