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From Publishers Weekly
An otherwise predictable story of revenge gone awry is redeemed, in L.A. screenwriter Main's debut thriller, through his creation of the memorable character of a 63-year-old paroled murderer. Thirty years before the novel's beginning, Franklin Walker and another man killed Ellen Donelly's father during a robbery, a crime that the five-year-old girl witnessed. Now, bent on vengeance, Ellen leaves her husband, Pete, and their Dallas home one day without explanation. She flies to L.A., where Walker has been living since his parole, confronts him with a gun and demands the identity of the man who did the actual shooting and was never caught. Walker, a crusty old con who reads self-help books and keeps a tight rein on his feelings, manages to turn the tables and take Ellen prisoner. Meanwhile, back in Dallas, Pete does some digging in Ellen's computer and discovers that she and her recently deceased mother had been planning their revenge for many years. Helped by a family friend and an L.A. private eye who lives in a retirement home, Pete picks up Ellen's trail just as she and Walker move on toward New Mexico and a rendezvous with the killer. Unfortunately, neither Pete nor Ellen are more than one-dimensional pawns on Main's chessboard; in particular, Ellen's decision not to confide in Pete is built on a flimsy reason. Yet readers will take pleasure in observing Walker's metamorphosis from wary survivor to positive action-taker, and Main's ability to craft swift, highly charged scenes keeps the narrative moving briskly.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。
Book Description
The adrenaline-charged debut novel of a husband, a wife, and two killers locked in a twisted match of hide-and-seek.
Ellen has murder on her mind: a secret, untrceable act of retribution; payback for a horrifying act from her childhoos that shattered her family and changed her life forever. After years of searching, the time for action has arrived. She takes to the road in pursuit of a man called Walkersetting into motion a plan so carefully crafted no one knows where she's gone. Not even her husband, Pete, a college teacher who waked up one morning alone in their bed. Unaware of her secret past, Pete suspects only that a
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A PROMISING DEBUT
2001/1/20
形式:マスマーケット
The plot may be predictable but the characters are not, which may, to a great degree, be what carries screenwriter Gregg Main's debut thriller Every Trace. A petty thief and convicted murderer seems a poor choice for an affecting protagonist, but in the deft hands of Mr. Main it works. Gruff, grizzly, enigmatic Franklin Walker intrigues and even elicits sympathy as beneath his crusty carapace one finds some drops of human kindness.
When Ellen Donelly has a pack-your-bag-and-leave fight with her husband, Pete, she says she needs some time and is going to visit her sister. Several days later, Pete discovers that Ellen has not gone to see her sister nor was her sister expecting her. Ellen has disappeared.
What Pete does not know is that Ellen has been haunted for years by her father's murder - a slaying she witnessed when she was only four-years-old. Two men had broken into her father's office. They shot him and then set fire to the building. One of the men, Franklin Walker, was captured and spent 30 years in prison for his crime. He never revealed the name of the second man, the one who fired the fatal bullets.
Determined to find the man who actually killed her father, Ellen, disguised and with a false I.D., has gone to California to find the 63-year-old Walker and force him to tell her the murderer's name. But stalker becomes captive when Walker wrestles a gun from Ellen and takes her prisoner.
Alan Barton, Walker's accomplice in crime, orders the parolee to kill Ellen but Walker cannot bring himself to do it. A devotee of self-help books, he searches vainly for a positive solution, knowing that Barton will surely kill him if he does not obey.
A showdown with Barton seems the only solution, so he and Ellen head for Barton's cabin in the remote mountains of New Mexico.
Meanwhile, Pete has done some investigating of his own and discovered that Ellen has long planned to exact revenge. With the help of a computer whiz friend who is able to retrieve information from Ellen's computer and a curmudgeonly L.A. detective, Pete traces Ellen and he, too, heads for New Mexico.
With a succession of wrong turns and near misses the author skillfully zings his narrative along to a bloody, bullet-riddled, flaming crescendo.
While readers may well guess on page 3 who has masterminded these nefarious doings. The key is we didn't know Franklin Walker, and he's well worth the read.
4 人中、4人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
A stunning page turner!!
1999/6/29
形式:ハードカバー
Oh my gosh! This book was sooo good!!! Everyone told me not to start reading this book on a work night(we are all thriller addicts), but no, I wouldn't listen. It was two a.m. and I kept looking at the clock, thinking I have got to get some sleep, but I couldn't put Every Trace down. This is a great book with one of the best bad guys since Hannibal... Take this book with you on vacation; do not start it on Sunday night.
Exhausted, Terrified, and Wrung Out in Texas
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A galloping fast read
1999/3/25
形式:ハードカバー
Every Trace cost me several hours of sleep. I kept thinking, "I'll just read one more chapter," but then I would find myself hooked and read well past the place I had decided to stop. Written sparely, this is a fast-paced thriller that doesn't dwell on gore.
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