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What a thrill! 100% satisfied
I'm not an Eve Duncan reader but I'm an Iris Johansen reader and I loved it from beginning to end. No waiting for action, thrills and suspense. I just couldn't put it down. I give it a 100% satisfaction read for ME! :) :)
Publié il y a 22 mois par Jojos
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Pretty good
This was a good book. Keeps you turning the pages but the lead character is rather predictable.
Publié il y a 9 mois par Marilyn Carrie
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Duncan's obsession over her missing daughter is put to good use in "Stalemate"!, Juil 18 2009
Eve Duncan, one of the world's best known forensic sculptors, specializes in the recreation of facial features from skulls. Having lost her beloved daughter, Bonnie, to abduction and murder and having suffered the anguish of never having found the body, her passion is helping parents in a similar situation. She reconstructs heads and faces and confirms the identification of skeletal remains so that grieving parents can find closure and move on with their lives.
When she receives a call from Luis Montalvo, a sleazy but powerful smuggler of illegal armaments and drugs in South America, asking for help with the identification of a skull, her first inclination is to tell him to push off; that she simply isn't inclined, at any price, to help someone who enriches himself by doing so much harm in the world.
But, in exchange for her forensic reconstruction of this skull, Montalvo promises to put all of his wealth, all his manpower and all of his underworld contacts into an effort to find Duncan's daughter's body and to identify her killer. This is a lure that Duncan is helpless to resist and she finds herself quickly on the way to South America even though she doubts Montalvo will keep his word. Duncan is quite certain that she'll find herself in an unmarked grave after she completes the task.
I've read a couple of other Johansen novels in which I found Eve Duncan's angst and never-ending obsession with the disappearance of her daughter to be tiresome. But "Stalemate" avoids this problem entirely. It's a topnotch thriller that keeps the excitement meter pushed to the stops for the entire novel. Instead of allowing Duncan's angst to become tedious, Johansen has cleverly used it to allow Duncan's complex character to grow and develop and to add depth and details to the story of her stormy relationship with former FBI agent Joe Quinn. Best of all, she allows Duncan to experience an almost irresistible attraction to Montalvo, a man who at the same time represents everything that repulses her.
But that infernal ending (that's not nice, Ms Johansen!) ... it's a cliff-hanger that almost guarantees you'll be off to the bookstore to purchase "Quicksand". You'll want to find out where this whole thing with Montalvo and Duncan is going to end!
Highly recommended.
Paul Weiss
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Pretty good, Fév 17 2009
This was a good book. Keeps you turning the pages but the lead character is rather predictable.
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What a thrill! 100% satisfied, Janv. 12 2008
I'm not an Eve Duncan reader but I'm an Iris Johansen reader and I loved it from beginning to end. No waiting for action, thrills and suspense. I just couldn't put it down. I give it a 100% satisfaction read for ME! :) :)
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Horrible, Janv. 17 2007
Iris Johansen's latest novel is horrible. I was very dissapointed in the direction she took Eve and Joe. If you are a fan of the Eve Duncan series I would recommend you skip this book. Or at least wait for the paperback.
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THE PERILS OF EVE DUNCAN ABLY NARRATED, Janv. 10 2007
Following on the heels of her wildly successful last thriller starring forensic professor Eve Duncan (On The Run, 2006), the writer who has been called "the queen of suspense" now presents an equally terrifying tale that pits Eve against a fearsome killer.
As fans of Iris Johansen know she wastes little time in roping readers/listeners in. It all begins with a phone call, in fact the third she has received from Luis Montalvo, a Colombian drug lord. She's hard at work reconstructing a skull and wants no interruptions but can't resist picking up the phone to tell Montalvo in no uncertain terms that he's not to call her again. But, this is a man who does not take no for an answer, and says,
"I'm convinced you'll be my guest in a very short time."
"Why?"
"That would spoil the surprise. I like to see a plan unfold like a beautiful night flower."
"You mentioned Joe and my adopted daughter. You touch them and I'll kill you."
"That violence again." His tone was amused. "I'd never be that stupid. That would be the trigger that would send you into the fray to take me down. I want your cooperation."
As much as she detests the man he has the one key that will make her agree to go to him - information about her daughter, Bonnie, who was abducted years ago and is presumed dead. Once in the jungles of Colombia Eve finds herself trapped, caught in a battle between drug dealers.
And neither side cares whether Eve lives or dies.
With numerous Broadway, film and television appearances to her credit actress Jennifer Van Dyck is again well cast as the voice of Eve Duncan. Many well remember her fine voice performances on other Johansen favorites such as Killer Dreams and On The Run. Van Dyck's trained voice ably reflects both Eve's toughness and her vulnerability.
- Gail Cooke
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Stalemate par Iris Johansen (Hardcover - Déc 26 2006)
CDN$ 35.95 CDN$ 22.65
Habituellement expédié sous 3 à 5 semaines
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