Robert Pobi
Paperback | Pages: 426 pages Rating: 3.77 | 1588 Users | 276 Reviews
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| Title | : | L'Invisible |
| Author | : | Robert Pobi |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 426 pages |
| Published | : | May 10th 2012 by Sonatine (first published 2012) |
| Categories | : | Thriller. Mystery. Horror. Fiction. Mystery Thriller |
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Montauk, Nouvelle-Angleterre. Jack Cole revient pour la première fois depuis près de trente ans dans la maison où il a grandi. Son père, Jacob Coleridge, un peintre reconnu et célébré dans tout le pays à l’égal de Jackson Pollock, y vit reclus depuis des années, souffrant de la maladie d’Alzheimer. Son état a récemment empiré et une crise de démence l’a conduit à l’hôpital. Si ses jours ne sont pas en danger, ses moments de lucidité sont rares.Itemize Books In Favor Of L'Invisible
| Original Title: | Bloodman |
| ISBN: | 2355841144 (ISBN13: 9782355841149) |
| Edition Language: | French URL http://www.sonatine-editions.fr/Les-Apparences |
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Ratings: 3.77 From 1588 Users | 276 ReviewsCriticize Of Books L'Invisible
This psychological thriller grabbed me by the nose with the second paragraph and didn't let go until I hollered. And I didn't holler until the very end. An eidetic memory must be a wonderful/terrible thing to have. Jake has studiously avoided even thinking about his father and the house in which he grew up. He has his reasons. Now, almost 30 years later, he forces himself to return to his childhood home. His father, a painter of some renown who is riddled with Alzheimer's, has suffered aWhat a story! Creepy and chilling.
FBI crime scene specialist Jake Cole has returned home to Montauk for the first time in decades where his estranged father is hospitalised after setting himself on fire in the throes of dementia. Then the local sheriff asks for his help: The brutally slaughtered and skinned bodies of a mother and her young son have been discovered, and Jake's talent and insights are desperately needed. Viewing the crime scene, Jake sees more than anyone could have expected: He recognises the killer's signature.
Robert Pobi, Bloodman (Thomas and Mercer, 2012)Full disclosure: this book was provided to me free of charge by Amazon Vine.It is on page 60, with the last sentence of Chapter 9, that Bloodman blows up in your face. At that point it turns from an average, if overly descriptive, thriller into a good (if still overly descriptive) thriller. At some point, I'm not exactly sure where, in the thirty pages that follow that, Bloodman turns into a very good thriller indeed, the kind of book that has you
It's been a long time since I've read a first novel that enthralled and tested me like Robert Pobi's "The Bloodman"; an intriguing, complex thriller that twists it's way through a four day period in quiet Montauk, New York. Special Agent Jake Cole has come home after walking away from his abusive and alcoholic father twenty-eight years ago. His father, a talented painter now tortured by dementia, horribly maimed himself in a mysterious fire. Over the years, after battling his own demons, the
I disliked almost everything about this book; the good guys, the serial killer and the sluggish pace made reading it a chore. Life is too short!
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