- Hardcover: 289 pages
- Publisher: Villard (Mar 18 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0679410562
- ISBN-13: 978-0679410560
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 454 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
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Great villains can make a mystery, and David Martin's latest has not one but two wonderful heavies--a grinning lunatic named Donald Growler, guilty of everything but the murder that got him sent to prison, and McCleany, the cold-blooded cop who framed him. Squeezed between these two evils are Paul, the gentle, religious young man who helped Growler get paroled, Paul's wife, and her former lover--a tough ex-cop named Teddy Camel who can look at bad guys and make them confess. Camel will need all his smarts to get over the hump of a vengeful Growler and an even more vicious McCleany. Martin's previous Camel caravan, Lie to Me, is available in paperback.
From Publishers Weekly
At the beginning of Martin's stylish but unbearably brutal new thriller, Donald Growler puts a severed human head into a washing machine, pours in some shampoo after it, notes it's called Head & Shoulders, thinks "Or in this case just Head," then muses: "It wasn't that difficult being a homicidal maniac." Not exactly a thigh-slapper, but that's about as light as the book gets. The ferocious Growler was once wrongfully accused of murder; after his release from a crippling jail sentence, he goes around systematically slaughtering, in lubriciously painful detail, the people he believes set him up. Since one of them is perky heroine Annie Milton, with whom ex-cop Teddy Camel once had an affair, Camel finds himself drawn into the hunt for Growler?which in this case consists mostly of trying to stay alive and keep Annie ditto. With the aid of a couple of really crooked cops, a hideous old house that doubles as a torture chamber and sundry cruelties, including a victim burned alive, the nailing of someone's foot to the floor, several beheadings, a sanguinary garroting and an ingeniously contrived electrocution, Martin eventually thins out his cast. The fact that he writes swiftly and with some wit doesn't really compensate for the strain on the reader. This and the recent Bone Collector (Forecasts, Dec. 16) seem to be part of a campaign to prove that writers can reach new depths in depicting violence if they put their minds to it.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing,
By Lisa Ritchie "Lisa" (Toronto,Ontario) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cul-De-Sac (Paperback)
This was a awesome book!!!It keeps you glued from the first page to the last. I had never heard of david Martin before i picked the book up at a book fair at my work for 2 dollars and it was the best two bucks I've ever spent.....IF horror and gore is your thing. Read this book you'll love it!!!!!!!!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Chilling!,
This review is from: Cul-De-Sac (Paperback)
David Martin does it again, another homerun. Is is possible that jail can change a person? Take someone who's innocent of murder then spent several years in jail, and when he comes out, he's a changed man. This is the story of Doland Growler. Grolwer (you have to love that name) had to spend years in jail, and he was changed froever. Now that he's out, he wants to find the ones who set him up for murder and was forced to do unspeakable things in jail. But now Growler is out, and it's times to make the giulty pay.Don't think that that the above spoils anything. What I said is mention in the back of the book. I left out a lot, trust me. Martin gives the reader many chills with the unique murders that Growler commits. Martin also has the ability to keep the reader glued to the page, and actually forced the reader to put the book down. This book has a lot of plot twiwts and excellent characters that will heep the reader hooked to the very last page. If you know of Martin's works, then you need to get this book, and other book Mratin wrote. Now, if you haven't read any books my Martin, then you must start it. You may want to read a book called "Lie to Me", before you read this book. One character in Lie to me, shows up here. Start this book, you won't be sorry.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great!!!!!,
By "ldoublel" (Belleville, NJ) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cul-De-Sac (Paperback)
Couldn't put the book down!!! I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes a some HORROR....
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