Vous voulez voir cette page en fran�ais ? Cliquez ici.

103 used & new from CDN$ 0.01

See All Buying Options

Have one to sell? Sell yours here

Share your own customer images

Look inside this book

Survival of the Fittest (Mass Market Paperback)

by Jonathan Kellerman (Author)

3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (61 customer reviews)

Available from these sellers.

4 new from CDN$ 19.67 96 used from CDN$ 0.01 3 collectible from CDN$ 9.99

Product Details

Mass Market Paperback: 519 pages
Publisher: Bantam Books; 1st thus edition (Jan 1 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0553572326
ISBN-13: 978-0553572322
Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.4 x 3 cm
Shipping Weight: 205 g

Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (61 customer reviews)

Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

This is item 12 in The Jonathan Kellerman: Alex Delaware Series.

Product Description

From Amazon.com

Legendary L.A. psychologist-turned-novelist Kellerman raids real life when inventing the adventures of his psychologist sleuth, Dr. Alex Delaware, and some of the scariest parts of Survival of the Fittest are historical. Eugenicists lurk behind a murder spree Alex must solve, and he notes that the eugenics movement involved one elite U.S. college professor who advocated castration of ethnically lesser men, a forced sterilization ordered by Supreme Court Justice Holmes that Hitler used as a precedent to sterilize millions, and the pre-Holocaust coinage of the phrase "final solution."

Besides a truly horrifying theme, Survival of the Fittest boasts sharp but not arch dialogue; savvy psychological insights into stressed-out cops, suicides' loved ones, and malevolent therapists; and a sense of place so vivid that the Los Angeles Times has rated Kellerman the most evocative L.A. author since Raymond Chandler.

The plot's as twisty as a canyon road, and it's great fun to ride along with Dr. Alex and his sidekick, the burly, gay LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, as they dodge large red herrings and strive to find out why mildly handicapped kids are suffering "gentle strangulation" by killers who sign their handiwork with the mysterious letters DVLL, and what the devil this has to do with the high-IQ group Meta. Bonus for Kellerman fans: his Israeli serial killer catcher, Daniel Sharavi, star of his 1988 bestseller The Butcher's Theater, joins the sleuth team. But in the gory finale, Dr. Alex faces absolute evil all alone. --Tim Appelo

Book Description

The daughter of a diplomat disappears on a school field trip--lured into the Santa Monica mountains and killed in cold blood. Her father denies the possibility of a political motive. There are no signs of struggle, no evidence of sexual assault, leaving psychologist Alex Delaware and his friend LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis to pose the disturbing question: Why?

Working together with Daniel Sharavi, the brilliant Israeli police inspector introduced in Jonathan Kellerman's The Butcher's Theater, Delaware and Sturgis soon find themselves ensnared in one of the darkest, most menacing cases of their careers. And when death strikes again, it is Alex who must go undercover, alone, to expose an unthinkable conspiracy of self-righteous brutality and total contempt for human life.

See all Product Description

Inside This Book (Learn More)

Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Excerpt | Back Cover

Tag this product

(What's this?)

Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items.

Customer Reviews

61 Reviews

5 star:		(22)
4 star:		(11)
3 star:		(15)
2 star:		(11)
1 star:		(2)

Average Customer Review

3.7 out of 5 stars (61 customer reviews)

Share your thoughts with other customers:

Create your own review

Most helpful customer reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Survival of the fittest, April 2 2003

By	Kosovar (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Survival of the Fittest: An Alex Delaware Novel (Mass Market Paperback)

"Survival of the fittest" was the first book I ever read from Jonathan Kellerman and I must admit I really liked his writing style because he unfolds the story so professionaly.

"Survival of the fittest"
A cop commits suicide in public.A retarded fifteen years old girl
is found dead. She happens to be the daughter of an Israeli diplomat and (the poor thing doesn't get enough publicity so the killer would be found a bit easier) this is because criminals may get encouraged to target other diplomats children. Later on,
another girl is found dead - and she happens to be just a street girl even though she was strangled to death too...
A detective Milo Sturgis, has all the help he needs to solve these crimes and all that help comes from a psychologist Alex
Delaware...

If you enjoy psychological thriller this book wont dissapoint you at all.

Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)

3.0 out of 5 stars Not exactly a page-turner, Dec 12 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Survival of the Fittest: An Alex Delaware Novel (Mass Market Paperback)

This book dragged a bit. There are lengthy descriptions of one character watching another search the Internet extensively without result, or of a detective making numerous telephone calls that don't produce information. Milo and Alex do a lot of repetitive brainstorming, going over and over and over the same material. As other reviewers have mentioned, the latter half of the investigation doesn't seem exactly linked to the murders.

I was surprised to read in the "Top 500" reviewer's response that "A serial killer has been shooting persons with mental and physical challenges." None of the victims are shot.

Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)

2.0 out of 5 stars Skimmed the last 200 pages, May 26 2002

By A Customer

I lost interest in this book part way through. There were far too many plot twists. The book seemed to lurch spasmodicaly through the mystery.

Deleware's relationships were relatively flat and his relationship with Robin had no depth or feeling. This was my first Alex Delaware book and I found I really didn't care what happened to any of the characters.

I think it's interesting that the used versions are being sold for a penny. Hits the nail on the head.

Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)

Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review

› See all 61 customer reviews...

Most recent customer reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars Standard paperback [book]

I have never read an Alex Delaware novel before...but it seems I have not missed much. It has been a while since I have sat down with a book that is simply just mediocre. Read more

Published on Feb 20 2002 by Robert Knetsch

3.0 out of 5 stars just another alex delaware novel
This is the second Jonathan Kellerman book I've read. And I like it, but I don't love it; nothing to write home about. Read more

Published on Jan 7 2002 by Alvin Tanhehco

3.0 out of 5 stars OK
It's a pretty good book, but the author's need to spend nine straight pages doing nothing but shoving his political beliefs down the reader's throat ("eugenics is bad,... Read more

Published on Dec 2 2001

3.0 out of 5 stars its drown out
i Like The Story line But There Was to Much Down Time in Setting up the plot Could Have beed About 100 pages shorter

Published on Oct 26 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than the rest
If you have a long drive ahead of you, any Kellermen book will help pass the time. Before you know it, your there!

Published on Sep 10 2001 by MeMe

5.0 out of 5 stars Well drawn characters, clever writing
This book was terrific. All the main characters are likeable and interesting. Their dialogue is entertaining and unpredictable. Read more

Published on Jun 23 2001 by jerb57

5.0 out of 5 stars GUIDE TO SURVIVAL
The story literally opens with a bang. A police officer commits suicide for no apparent reason, leaving a devastated sister as a survivor. Read more