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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780451206527
ISBN number: 0451206525
Label: Signet
Manufacturer: Signet
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 480
Printing Date: July 01, 2002
Publishing house: Signet
Release Date: July 02, 2002
Sale Popularity Level: 30538
Studio: Signet
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They are called 'The Sleeping Women.' A series of unsettling paintings in which the nude female subjects appear to be not asleep, but dead. Photojournalist Jordan Glass has another reason to find the paintings disturbing...The face on one of the nudes is her own-or perhaps the face of her twin sister, who disappeared and is still missing. At the urging of the FBI, Jordan becomes both hunter and hunted in a search for the anonymous artist-an obsessed killer who seems to know more about Jordan and her family than she is prepared to face...
'Hair-raising...Iles continues to scare the living daylights out of readers.' (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
Amazon.com Review:
Greg Iles lives up to the promise of his previous bestseller, 24 Hours, with a new thriller that showcases his ability to deliver top-level suspense as well as multidimensional characterization. When Jordan Glass, a world-renowned photojournalist, happens on an exhibit of a series of paintings known as 'The Sleeping Women,' she is stunned to discover that one of the models--a nude who, like the other women in the paintings, looks dead rather than asleep--is her mirror image. But Jordan knows the face in the painting isn't her; it's her twin sister, Jane, who disappeared from her New Orleans home more than a year ago, and is presumed to have been murdered by a serial killer who's been snatching women off the streets of the Crescent City for at least that long. None of the bodies of the missing women have turned up, but their faces match the models in the other Sleeping Women paintings. A veteran FBI agent named John Kaiser brings Jordan into the Bureau's hunt for the anonymous artist, who may also know something about the disappearance of Jordan's father in Vietnam almost 30 years before.
This is a taut, well-crafted thriller with a nice secondary love story that's woven into the action without slowing it down. Jordan is a fascinating, many-sided character who's a little too tough to be wholly believable, but that's a minor quibble. While winning well-deserved new fans for Iles, Dead Sleep will keep his readers awake until the very last page. --Jane Adams
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Another Iles imaginative story that has vivid characters, flawed protagonists and just enough perverse coloring to keep you addicted until the very, very end. One of the best ending I have encountered in a long time. Superb. My adrenalin was pumping and I literally had to stop, take a deep breath and read more slowly to savor it all. Be ready to just sit with the book in your lap as the ending will shock and astonish you and have some tissue handy.
The beginning was almost as good when a photojournalist is at a Hong Kong art museum and is drawn to a collection of paintings called "The Sleeping Women." To her profession eye, the women appear to be dead rather than merely sleeping. She is shocked as she looks at the face of one of the painted women and sees her own face. She immediately has to fly back to New York to solicit help to investigate the disappearance of her twin sister that disappeared over a year before.
I will let you imagine all the twists and turns with these twin sisters in the story, one maybe dead and one turning over every rock to try and discover what is real.
Author of al-Qaeda Strikes Again
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Keeps you intrigued til the end...what more could you want? Takes place in New Orleans, which is nice as well.
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Others have already gone over the finer points of the story in their reviews, so I'll concentrate on the writing itself. Iles definitely knows how to create unique crimes and the characters who commit them - the methods and scenarios he utilized for the villain(s) of the piece were unlike any that I had read about before.
Iles' weakness, then, isn't in the overall story-telling in this case, but lies in the fact that at times, he telegraphs his punches too much - the foreshadowing used in some scenes had all the subtlety of an anvil falling from the sky and hitting a cartoon character on the head.
Then, too, the romance element in the story felt, at times, entirely too rushed, not nearly developed enough, and even somewhat not-in-keeping with the main character and what she'd gone through. My last quibble is with the fact that Iles' main character - a photographer - was allowed to outsmart the entire FBI many different times throughout the book, and that she was basically given free reign to participate in (and even take over, at times) the entire investigation.
That said, those points ultimately took a backseat to the fact that the story itself is incredibly interesting, and is full of twists. It incorporates family drama, the long-term effects of war, terminal illness, psychological disorders, the art world, murder, and the list goes on and on. Iles successfully managed to juggle each of those elements, and wove them into a coherent, (mostly) well-plotted, intelligent thriller.
The book is not perfect, but it is intriguing, and most readers should find the reading of it to be time well spent.
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Jordan Glass - a photojournalist just like her father, who disappeared (presumably dead) in Cambodia when she was young - tries to keep herself so busy that she doesn't think about her past. 18 months ago, her identical twin sister Jane disappeared, and despite having an intuition that her sister is dead, she still holds out hope that Jane will be found. While in Hong Kong she decides to visit an art gallery, and is absolutely floored to find a painting - among a group called Sleeping Women - of herself ... or, perhaps, Jane. What really rocks her on her heel is that the paintings seem to portray these women as sleeping, but her photographic eye tells her that they might actually be dead, instead. Since Jane was only one of 11 women who have gone missing over the past few years, Jordan takes her information to the FBI.
Once she has informed the FBI about these paintings, Jordan insinuates herself into the search for the person who painted these pictures. She also feels a keen attraction for the lead agent - John Kaiser. Can they find the person who is painting this pictures? Can they find the person who is kidnapping these women?
This is a very well-done and entertaining thriller/mystery. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good mystery or thriller, as well as fans in general of Greg Iles.
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How could you NOT give this a 5 star rating. It is possibly the best book I have ever read. . . definitely in the top 2 or 3! It will keep you guessing until the very end. . . You just won't figure it out! It is gory, and I tend not to like gory, but I really did love this book!
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