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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN num: 9780061235023
ISBN number: 0061235024
Label: William Morrow
Manufacturer: William Morrow
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 400
Printing Date: August 01, 2007
Publishing house: William Morrow
Release Date: August 07, 2007
Sale Popularity Level: 163313
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The bestselling author of The Straw Men makes his American hardcover debut with a searing, atmospheric tale that ratchets up the suspense, page by page, until its shocking end
For Jack Whalen, it all starts with a visit from a childhood friend, now a lawyer, who asks for his help on an odd case. The family members of a scientist have been brutally murdered, and the scientist—who may have had something to hide—is nowhere to be found.
But Jack has more pressing matters on his mind. His wife has told him that she's on a routine business trip to Seattle, yet she hasn't checked into her hotel. Calls to her cell phone go unanswered, and when Jack travels to Seattle to investigate, she's vanished.
And in Oregon a little girl goes missing. She's found miles away, but it soon becomes clear that she's not an innocent victim, and is far from defenseless. Unusual events, all leading to the same place. As a former patrol cop who left the force under difficult circumstances, Jack is determined to find some answers. Yet the more he digs, the more the intrigue grows. Searching into the dark secrets of a past that still haunts him, Jack discovers that the truth has roots deeper and more evil than he ever feared.
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The positive jacket blurb from Stephen King convinced me to read this book, but I wish I'd picked something else. This book is a total mess: the key concept makes no sense, the characters are mostly uninteresting, and the big introductory scene about the murder of the scientist's family has NOTHING to do with the plot. You will never get back the hours you waste on this book.
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I had read some MMS here and there; just not really getting into any particular piece, but this book had me spellbound!
The author knows how to make the characters come alive--I felt like I was an active observer/participant so easily.
This is slated as a 'crime novel' but it is so much more!
Give Michael Marshall Smith, (sometimes without the Smith), a chance with this book--it is a guaranteed good read!
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I previously read 'The Straw Men' by Michael Marshall and really enjoyed it. I looked him up to see if he had written anything else and was excited to pick up a copy of 'The Intruders', but how quickly that feeling waned once I started reading.
Jack Whalen and his wife Amy live in Birch Crossing in Washington. Jack is a former LA cop turned writer and Amy works in Marketing. She is on a business trip and Jack gets a call from a Seattle cab driver telling him that his wife forgot her cell phone in his cab. When Jack calls the hotel where Amy is supposed to be staying he learns she was never booked there. A few phone calls and mysterious video messages later, Jack sets off on a journey to find his wife and learn what she is involved in, and with whom.
At the same time, Madison O'Donnell is approached by a man in grey while on the beach near her parten's summer home in Oregon. After her brief meeting with this man, Madison starts blacking out and having odd feelings. She ends up getting herself to Seattle and doing crazy things that no one would expect from a little girl.
Marshall tries to weave a sci-fi tale that comes across as an endeavor to master a genre he knows little about. His jumps from character to character and scene to scene are not well put together. I did not enjoy this book very much at all. I really had to push myself to finish it and as I was reading felt constantly confused and hoping it would end soo.
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I really enjoy Michael Marshall Smith's writing style, and heartily recommend one of his earlier novels, THE STRAW MEN. But THE INTRUDERS is pretty much a middling effort, at least when it comes to the plot.
The very first half of this novel is certainly well written, but the plotline is disjointed and makes little sense. Smith keeps on shifting perspectives and deliberately keeps the reader off-balance. While some readers may enjoy this type of storytelling, I prefer novels with straightforward narratives. Smith tries to tie everything together toward the end, but his "explanation" is so silly and contrived that I felt cheated. In the end, I felt the whole story was pointless.
THE INTRUDERS is further weakened by the lack of a truly likable character. While all the characters are intelligent, most of them are dour and anti-social. There are also too many characters to keep track of, and some of them are just stereotypical (the world-weary hit man for example).
Still, Smith is a terrific writer of prose, one of the best out there in genre fiction. There are many passages in thsi novel that I re-read because I was struck by their cleverness and insight. I recommend THE INTRUDERS if you enjoy good writing, but if you want a great story, you should try THE STRAW MEN instead.
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I could not put Michael Marshall's latest down. He's created a multi-layered thriller involving a likeable protagonist plus a host of remarkable satellite characters who make you cringe & groan with curiosity & anticipation.
Set in the Pacific Northwest, the prologue of THE INTRUDERS starts with an apparently random home invasion, murder & fire. Then we meet Jack Whalen, ex-LA beat cop & a one-book author who's struggling to write another. Instead, he's sitting staring out at the forested panorama & remembering, for some odd reason, a high school classmate & how she didn't quite fit in & who, after trying to get the attention of the handsomest senior jock, committed suicide.
That morning, Jack's wife had driven to Seattle for a meeting at her ad agency. That's why, a couple of years ago, they'd moved up to this idyllic little mountain burg on the eastside of the Cascades from Southern California, where they'd met & married ten years before.
Then that very same jock, now 20 years older, calls Jack, wanting to see him. Gary Fisher brings a strange tale and Jack, with his beat cop instincts slowly coming alert, senses his visitor isn't telling him everything & some of what he's said doesn't ring true. But Jack has no time for Gary as he's just discovered his wife's cell phone has been found in a Seattle taxi.
On Cannon Beach in Oregon, a nine year old girl is struggling with nightmares, her parents' uneasy marriage, & something far more frightening: loss of memory & the arrival of a stranger as she's out on the beach wondering how she got there. When the idea that she's got to go somewhere sets her traveling, the people who help her along the way come to rue it as this nice, little girl with headaches has a killer's instincts.
THE INTRUDERS is a tale well-spun with lashings of deceit & determination, action & clues, body & mind invasions & chases, & other scary stuff. It's a thriller that has you connecting dots like mad, except, are you connecting the right ones? Unto the final page, you won't know!
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