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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
EAN num: 9780451225221
ISBN number: 0451225228
Label: Signet
Manufacturer: Signet
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: September 02, 2008
Publishing house: Signet
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Evan Delaney knew China Lake was a tough place to grow up. But she never knew how tough until now—she returns to the desert military base for her high school reunion, and learns that a number of her classmates have died young. Then, on the very first night of the reunion, another one dies— this one savagely butchered. And she’s just the first. Someone has an axe to grind—and Evan’s graduating class has something to fear.
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Ah, this is a bit of the paranoid type mystery, in which graduates from a particular year are dying off prematurely. It doesn't take long to narrow it down to a particular field trip...well, take it from there. This is truly a page turner.
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In high school, Evan Delaney and her class go on a field trip to the Naval Base in China Lake to do some sketches of drawings on a canyon. Evan and three other girls slip away and go where a project is being blown up, which they witness. Various Federal agents interview the four high school females, but eventually they return to school. Evan goes on with her life assuming the incident was nothing.
Evan accompanied by her lover Jesse attends her high school class' fifteenth year anniversary gala. Those who died are commemorated, but no one notices that the people who died are way higher than average in this grouping. Someone killed one of the high school witnesses before the reunion and a second one just after the event. Evan soon learns that a grey ops experiment being blown up was what they actually observed fifteen years ago. Now anyone remotely associated with Project South Star is being killed; Evan will not sit idly by waiting her turn.
This is the fourth Meg Gardiner thriller I read and as with the others this super author hooks the reader with plenty of action and a heroine who is a woman in peril, but takes care of herself although that drives the men in her life crazy especially Jesse who loves her. The story line is fast-paced and a bit over the Sierras, but fun to read as Jessie will do anything to keep his beloved Evan safe even when she, in his mind, foolishly risks her life to stop the Captain America replica.
Harriet Klausner
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I picked this book up after reading Stephen King's extreme recommendation. I should have known that the master of horror would love a book that is VERY intense! I hadn't read any books by this author before, and I was really impressed with her writing. I wasn't prepared for the extreme violence though, as this serial killer/torturer brutalizes protagonist Evan Delaney's high school classmates. Delaney becomes aware of the killings at her 15-year reunion. At very first no one credits the killings as purposeful, since all the victims seem to have died in different, if bizarre, ways -- but there are way too many of them, and eventually Delaney begins to see a pattern ....
The book starts with a torture-murder, there are many cruel murders in the course of the novel, and there is even the murder of a child. I think the author is a fine writer, the mystery is thrilling and the characters are interesting and three-dimensional. The final scene is terrific. That's why I give this book 5 stars. HOWEVER, the cruelty and intensity of the killing means I probably won't buy another in the series. Fair warning, but if the brutality doesn't bother you too much, I would highly recommend them.
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I LOVED this book. I read China Lake very first and enjoyed it, but this one really blew me away. I couldn't put it down. Highly recommended.
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If Patterson can sell millions, Gardiner should also. She's better. Put your mind on cruise. Enjoy the asides and settle in for the ride.
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