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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780800732400
ISBN number: 0800732405
Label: Revell
Manufacturer: Revell
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 432
Printing Date: September 01, 2007
Publishing house: Revell
Sale Popularity Level: 40073
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Special Agent Patrick Bowers never met a killer he couldn't catch... Until now.
Called to North Carolina to consult on the case of an area serial killer, Bowers finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Cunning and lethal, the killer is always one step ahead of the law, and he's about to strike again. It will take all of Bowers's instincts and training to stop the man who calls himself... the Illusionist.
Thrilling, chilling, and impossible to put down, The Pawn will hold you in its iron grip until the very last page.
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I wanted to give it a zero but the website doesn't let you. I cannot believe this is sold as a "Christian" novel. He is an imposter invading the Christian world. This author is one twisted individual. What Christian writes this way!? It is very dark, disturbing, scarry and very, very graphic with details about torturing and murdering. He spells out details about torturing and mutilating a cat and just one example of his deeds he kills, tortures and saws in half a woman. I have read secular books that were not this trashy, evil, hideous, dark, scarry, etc. There are no godly or Christian aspects to this novel and no redeeming values.
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Both The Pawn (The Patrick Bowers Files, Book 1) and The Rook (The Patrick Bowers Files, Book 2) are very well written with good character development. However, the books are very graphic and gory. A serial killer who gets high on strangling a person and brings them back just so he can do it again and again is troubling. There are many authors who can tell a murder mystery without these disturbing images. I certainly hope that Stephen James will be able to weave future tales without all the terror and erotic gore.
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What I Love about this novel, is that, like a few thrillers that are coming out of the Christian market at the moment, this novel is a look at the world through a Christian perspective, and not a full on novel with a hidden Christian message (There's nothing wrong with this approach, as I like many novels that go down this road) This novels deal with quite graphic themes of murder, which may put some readers off, but, unfortunately this reflects the world we live in. Issues of grief, father/parenthood are also covered. This is the very first novel/book that I have come across from Mr. James, but even now, I'm chomping at the bits to read the follow on in this series The Rook (The Patrick Bowers Files, Book 2)
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Just too graphic for me. Lots of writers creat the same suspense without the gory glee.
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Steven James' thriller THE PAWN starts with a bang and doesn't let up until the final word. Bowers is an FBI Special Agent still mourning the death of his wife from cancer and trying to reconnect with the step-daughter he hardly knew. This book takes the reader on a thrill ride that is part police procedural, part thriller, and full of evil villians. For a Christian novel, this book contains an incredible amount of violence and deranged thinking from the minds of evil killers. Not a bad thing, but readers should be aware that this book pushes the limits on what I've seen in Christian fiction.
The book opens with Aaron Jeffrey Kincaid and his girlfriend preparing to carryout a suicide pact. After this haunting chapter, the novel skips forward twenty years to the present. Patrick Bowers is being flown to a crime scene to assist his friend Ralph Hawkins. The victim is a young woman, and the fifth to be killed by a probable serial killer. Bowers works with Hawkins and an attractive agent named Lien-hua Jiang. Bowers struggles to find meaning in the murders. How are the victims connected? Why does the killer leave a chess pawn at each crime scene?
The plot is intense and leads to some dark places involving cults and a CIA conspiracy. The novel is never preachy but does offer a message of hope. A sequel is already written and will be released this summer. I can't wait.
I love Michael Connelly, John Sandford and Robert Crais and truly believe THE PAWN is just as good as books by these great authors. Its nice to read such exceptional Christian fiction and I hope James continues to write thrillers.
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