- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Severn House Publishers (Jan 1 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0727856979
- ISBN-13: 978-0727856975
- Product Dimensions: 20.7 x 17.2 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 390 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,050,270 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Like the start of a new school year, Masterton's novels of paranormally sensitive English teacher Jim Rook are full of energy and bustle that usually dissipates once the regular routine resumes. This fifth adventure (after Snowman) finds Rook preparing to leave his remedial class at Los Angeles's West Grove Community College for a new job at the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., when he's delayed by a former student who begs him to investigate inexplicable circumstances surrounding the drowning of her child. This proves only the first of several instances in which Rook's students and friends are victimized by a "swimmer," a vengeful spirit that manifests frighteningly in shapes of water or boiling steam. With the help of Susan Silverstone, an ex-student turned psychic, Rook traces the swimmer's origins to a tragic episode in the school's recent history, and suffers several near brushes with drippy death as he plots its exorcism. Though the story features some inventive supernatural incursions including the awesomely animated contents of a swimming pool forcing its way into a house it's ultimately grounded in the same plodding homilies of personal responsibility and episodes of instructive poetry reading that serve as ballast in its predecessors. The swimmer's assaults give the plot occasional jolts but become so repetitive that only a bizarre moment of feline ex machina at the climax relieves their monotony. Still, the amiable Rook is fun to follow, and the mix of classroom capers and occult horror will put readers in mind of a bush-league Buffy bonanza.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Swimmer begins with a child's drowning, which his mother is convinced was murder by someone or something that disappeared afterward. She calls her former English teacher, Jim Rook, who she knows has psychic abilities and is likelier to believe her than very skeptical cops. Aided by a woman capable of doing a spirit trace, Rook quickly discovers that the culprit is a malevolent spirit that takes form in water. Dubbed the swimmer, it is out to hurt Rook, starting with those close to him: his students and neighbors. Jim, some students, and the other psychic he hired to find the spirit in the first place have a wild time coming up with a solution to the problem of water taking on a mind of its own and trying to kill people. This is Masterton's fifth book starring Rook, but it works well whether or not one has read the others. A good, not-too-demanding adventure, it's better entertainment than watching sit-coms. Regina Schroeder
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4.5 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Awesome scary book. Another MASTERton., Aug 21 2005
By A. Mattar - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Swimmer (Hardcover)
Being a avid Graham Masterton fan myself for many years, I was skeptical about his Rook series till I read tooth and claw. That got me glued to his other Rook books.Getting frostbite in the middle of summer and having people baffled is just the beginning of this awesome book. Rook finds himself traveling miles away to solve a horrifying mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seats! Another great awesome book from the MASTER of horror.
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hello kitty, Aug 8 2005
By buddy badger "#Bb#" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Swimmer (Hardcover)
woooga booga boooga....be scared, be very scared. This is not for the faint of heart.If your one of those people that pick up a book, and can't put it down till it's finished, this is a book for you; otherwise you might just find your self deaming of the last relevent horror you read.
'swimmer' is a fasinating horror novel, much like graham masterton's other books.
and i highly recomend it.
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