October 21, 2012

  • Edge

    The book I am reviewing is the thriller Edge by Jeffrey Deaver which is a very good book which I borrowed from the library. The plot concerns a district attorney who has been responsible for prosecuting a gang called the J8s and now they appear to want him killed. Actually it turns out his wife was involved in intelligence in Afghanistan and her husband thought she was just doing simple typing and now the killer is after her. Anyway someone is assigned to look after them and is rather alarmed that there daughter is using social network sites despite them being in hiding. Anyway the man assigned to kill the family called Henry Loving likes to torture people with sandpaper and alcohol on their private parts and he murdered the mentor of the man who is protecting them. There is a dilemma as to whether the family should be used as bait to draw Henry out of hiding. There is a happy ending though. Also officially Henry is dead as they thought he died in a warehouse fire although he got to one of the lab technicians and made him falsify the results. With his brand of torture he can make people do anything. At first the family are dismissive of the danger they are in but of course that soon changes. Deaver has won loads of awards for his thriller writing and interestingly used to be a folk singer among other things. He's also most famous for the Lincoln Rhyme series which features a disabled detective of that name and The Bone Collector was a successful film.

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