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Coincidence
  
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Coincidence (Paperback)

by David Ambrose (Author)
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Ambrose (Superstition; The Man Who Turned into Himself) weaves a tale of duplicitous doppelgengers in this supernatural thriller. George is a quiet academic writing pseudoscience books for fun, supported by his rich, gallery-hopping wife, Sara. But his father's death triggers an avalanche of coincidental events from the appearance of old photographs of him with people he doesn't remember to an encounter with his own double, Larry, a crook on the run who has no qualms setting "jerk-off George" up for the hit men Larry is evading. Of course Larry, after assuming George's identity and faking amnesia, could have no idea that the female detective he's been sleeping with in exchange for information on "himself" would also have had an affair with rising lawyer-turned-politician Steve, who's having an affair with Sara. And no one, including the reader who by now will be wondering why the author has further complicated his narrative with references to Jung, Koestler and the I Ching could foresee the massive metaphysical conspiracy Larry and George are literally yanked into. It simultaneously explains their interrelated problems while confronting them both with an altogether more dangerous one. Ambrose clearly enjoys drawing twisty plots from inexplicable events, and he throws in just enough scientific explorations of synchronicity to justify the otherwise mystical explanations with which readers must content themselves. There is a surprisingly (or perhaps coincidentally) predictable ending to this unpredictable thriller, which undermines some of its punch, though not its author's cleverness. National advertising.

Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.



About the Author

David Ambrose spent years investigating the scientific basis for synchronicities and coincidences and infuses the novel with the hard science behind these fascinating phenomena. He lives in Switzerland.

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3.0étoiles sur 5 Fun but not unflawed, Mai 2 2002
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This story is an entertaining, quick read that plays pleasant tricks with your mind. My favorite scenes are the ones in which the main character encounters bizarre coincidences (he has a dream, for instance, about being in cab #444 at 4:44 pm; he wakes up and finds that it's 4:44 am). Some will find that the last fourth of the book is too much of a deus ex machina, but I didn't mind. I do think the book makes the classic mistake of a "novel of ideas," which is talking about the ideas as well as leading us toward them. (I don't want to read in a novel about Jung's theory of synchronicity; I just want to feel the thrill of synchronicity itself -- as I do in the 4:44 dream scene.) By the way, for a more powerful, better-crafted, more enigmatic exploration of similar themes (writers searching for mystic patterns in New York), don't miss Paul Auster's "New York Trilogy."
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2.0étoiles sur 5 Where did the ideas come from?, Fév 21 2002
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This book is subpar when compared to Ambrose's Superstition (which is exellent). While reading the book three movies kept jumping out at me. Don't get me wrong I like these movies but I do not like the similiarities between them and the book. The movies are the Matrix, The 13th floor and Fight Club.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 complex, frightening gothic-like suspense thriller, Fév 3 2002
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George Daly considers himself a very lucky, happy and contented man married to the woman he loves and writing the kind of books that he enjoys. When his father dies, George goes to the nursing home to make funeral arrangements and, get rid of his father's belongings. He comes across a picture of himself between two adults he never seen before. His curiosity drives him to hire a private detective to find out if the couple's son (and George's double) is still alive.

Before the two men meet, George realizes there is something wrong with his marriage and his spouse admits that her ex-lover is back in her life and she wants a divorce. Before anything definite can be arranged Larry Hart enters the picture and changes the lives of everyone he comes in contact with.

David Ambrose has written a complex, frightening gothic-like suspense thriller that will have readers eagerly turning the pages to see what happens next. COINCIDENCE reads like an episode of "THE TWILIGHT ZONE" except that when taken as a whole, each scene seems plausible. With one exception, the characters are everyday people who make this novel greater than the sum of its parts.

Harriet Klausner

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