This novel reminds me of The Serialist by David Gordon: It's a knowing take on serial killer fiction--especially slasher movies--that tangles and twists and loops. The difference, of course, is that Gordon was setting out on some level to take the piss out of all the tropes, and clearly didn't take any of it all that seriously (while still taking the novel seriously) and wrote with deftness and skill; Sager seems to take all the tropes seriously as hell, writes like a bison that's just run off a cliff, and has written a novel it's impossible to take seriously. The fact I at least flashed on who the killer was about halfway through might be evidence of that authorial clumsiness, evidence of authorial fair play, or evidence that I've read too much crime fiction and horror (of which this novel is closer to the former than the latter).
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Hero by Thomas Perry
This is a very good thriller novel, with an interesting predator/prey relationship between the main and her antagonist (who is enough her ...

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A neat little Horror novel (big shock on the genre, there, I'm sure) that plays some interesting games with PTSD and identity, with ma...
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Reading this novel reminded me a good deal of reading Processed Cheese . America Fantastica is more subtle, and the points it's makin...
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This is early Vachss, all taut and violent, more than a little murky to my mind. It is not good to be a sexual offender in a Vachss novel....
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