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ISBN number: 0312975740
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Page Count: 352
Printing Date: November 15, 2000
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Once an accomplished plastic surgeon, Trevor Lucas started using his scalpel to do very bad things...
Locked in a Boston psychiatric hospital, Lucas is holding the ward hostage-and performing grisly 'operations' on his prisoners...
Lucas, calling for forensic psychiatrist Frank Clevenger, is willing to strike a deal...
What Lucas knows about Clevenger could ruin the psychiatrist. What Clevenger can find out about Lucas could save the hostages. And he's got 24 hours to do it...
As Clevenger feverishly delves into Lucas' past, what he discovers is chilling, disturbing, and all too familiar. For Clevenger can't help but wonder if his proximity to killers and madmen in coincidence, or something much more complex: Projection.
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First of all, let me say that you have to read Denial by the same author before you read this book. It's not a stand alone. You won't understand the backstory and why things happen the way they do. Second of all, let me warn you that this book is extremely gory, graphic and violent. It's a good sequel to Denial. It wraps up a lot of loose ends from that book. However, I felt the last 50 pages were rushed and old characters that you hadn't seen most of the book were all of sudden brought back into the picture just to get them wrapped up in a nice clean package. I guess one of the main things I like about this series is the inner struggles that Ablow's main character, Frank Clevenger goes through. I mean what other series has a drug addicted womanizer psychotrist as it's main character trying to save everyone. I enjoyed this book with the action and the way it makes you confront your own morals and beliefs about what you would do in the same situation. It's a fairly quick read. I would recommend this book to anyone that like serial killer mystery suspense books.
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I read the very first book in Ablow's series, Denial, featuring Dr. Frank Clevenger in the mid-late '90s. I liked Denial but not enough to read Projection, the second book in the series, until now. My feeling about both of these books is the same -- fast reading, lots of suspense, off-center characters and gruesome violence. In most cases, for me, these are the ingredients for giving a thriller a 4-star or 5-star rating. So, why I am considering Projection to be a good book, but nothing special, and giving it a 3 1/2-star rating? The basic reason for this has to do primarily with Ablow's writing style; in that I felt I was "reading an account" of the suspense that occurs, rather than being able to feel that I was "right there experiencing it" with the characters. Another factor that probably contributed to my not rating Projection higher was that I allowed too much time to go by from when I read Denial. My strong recommendation if you decide to read Projection is to read Denial first. Otherwise, I don't think you'll understand well enough the angst and motivations of the main character and some of the other characters that were very first introduced in Denial; which, in turn, is likely have a negative impact on your enjoyment of Projection.
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This is the 2nd Clevenger book I have read. I have to say, I did not finish reading the book. Don't let that fact make you stop reading this yet. It could save you! I read more than half of the book and I couldn't read anymore. Frank is more developed than in the very first book. There are a good number of characters who make a return to the sequel. The new characters are very interesting as well. My problem lies with the plot.
Semi spoilers..
I just can't buy the police sending a psychiatrist into a dangerous situation like they did. And not only did they do that, they did it TWICE! I can suspend my belief, but I can only do it so many times. Being a criminal justice major, this probably annoys me more than most people. To some, this is a minor flaw, but to me, it is key. It breaks off from reality bigtime in my eyes, and they might as well be flying a dragon in Fantasia while they are at it.
Other than that, the book was enjoyable. Lucas returns, and boy is he an interesting character now. Kathy is back. If you liked the very first book, and don't mind the flaw I pointed out, then go for it. Ablow seems to be growing as an author as I read the books(chronologically) and it is a fun journey.
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i've read psychopath, denial, and now projection. psychopath was a modestly entertaining mystery. i have to say i strongly disagree with ablow's philosophical stance regarding society's and juries' responses to criminal pathology. he is astonishing in his capacity to excuse, even at the cost of more human life. after projection, i've decided i will not read another ablow novel. the plot is very weak, the gore is excessive for my taste, and at this point, the lead character, frank clevenger, is substantially ethically compromised and often criminal in his own actions. when clevenger, a forensic psychiatrist with serious addictive and psychological debilitation, appears on the scene, the body count shoots high. finally, i'm tired of the 'hooker with a heart of gold' stock character. it's pedestrian. life is a bit more complicated. i was looking for depth when i came upon this writer, especially given his background. what i found are weak polemics, psych 101 content, seriously implausible plotting, and emotionally manipulative denouement. it's time to put clevenger behind bars, the general population will be safer.
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I firmly disagree with those who say this is Ablow's weakest book to date. It makes you look very deeply into your own psyche and how you project your stuff onto others both consciously and, more powerfully, from the recesses of the unconscious mind in ways that can end up in either chaos or order.
Dr. Ablow is an incredibly intuitive psychiatrist who expresses his knowledge and experience in a way that is exquisitely brought to life with his incisive intellect and compassionate nature expressed in words that are an art form in themselves in how they are refined before selection. This book is a deeply profound study of the psychodynamic called Projection. I find myself asking more questions and doing more inner "homework" in my own psyche as a direct result of the power of his work.
The author has a set of big 'ole brass ones to be this utterly transparent with the reader. I find myself in awe and very respectful of Dr. Ablow's enormous capacity to be totally REAL.
The teaching in this book is beyond superb, it is brilliant and illuminating. "Monitoring one's own emotions' in reaction to other's behavior is the major message here that Holloway shares with Clevenger. It is one of the key concepts that doctors utilize in therapy to guide the patient toward that "ah ha" experience, and can be brilliantly useful to others as well. I found it a timely reminder. In my opinion, the story is almost ancillary to the powerful inner work that the author puts on the table for us all to share.
This is the third book of this series that I have read and can say that they all will be archived cheek by jowl with my medical and psychiatric textbooks. It is a wonderful teaching tool and should be required reading in graduate school.
Kathleen Nelson, PhD
Psychologist (Ret.)
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