内容説明
"Lawyer-turned-novelist Erika Holzer's Eye for an Eye is a disturbing look at street gangs, urban violence, the criminal justice system-a story of vigilantism growing out of the ongoing American obsession with law and order. Impassioned characters, sharp terse writing-a sort of American Clockwork Orange. Highly recommended."-Nelson DeMille. "Blistering."-Ed McBain, author of Downtown and The Kiss"The opening of Eye for an Eye rivals in graphic horror...[Hitchcock's] Psycho...Mrs. Holzer, a lawyer and a experienced journalist, hurtles at breakneck pace from one scene of cunning violence to another as she explores the ethics of frontier justice transposed to the urban battleground...A page-turner with a well crafted, ingenious plot...and an O Henry twist."-Priscilla L. Buckley, National Review"Eye for an Eye is a passionate dramatization of the horrors of violent crime from a modern woman's perspective. Thought-provoking and intense, the novel is an intelligent look at the aftermath of violent crime, the appeal of vigilante justice, and the ultimate failure of such 'justice.'"-Leonore Fleischer, Publishers Weekly"Erika Holzer's gripping new thriller...dedicated to the victims of crime, dead or alive...is a brutal, bone-chilling view of the phenomenon of vigilante justice...No ordinary thriller, Eye for an Eye is thought-provoking, spelling out the dangers of vigilante justice."-Helle Bering-Jensen, Washington Times"Everything in Eye for an Eye propels the reader forward as relentlessly as a coiled spring proceeding inexorably toward a crashing climax. [The novel]is very Aristotelian...a very Randian novel."-John Hospers, Liberty Magazine"Nowhere is the failure of bureaucratic law better explained than in the plot and theme of Eye for an Eye."-Robert Cheeks, Intellectual Conservative
Respectable citizens resort to organized vigilantism in this feeble conspiracy thriller set in contemporary New York. Successful PR executive Karen Newman falls in with a shadowy group called Victims Anonymous after her daughter is brutally gang-raped and murdered, prompting her son-in-law and granddaughter to commit suicide. When the judge, a bleeding-heart liberal, sets free her daughter's juvenile killer despite photographic evidence of the crime, Karen finds more satisfying justice with a pistol and the support of her new club. Victims Anonymous asks Karen to coordinate publicity for the burgeoning nationwide organization, and she becomes progressively more involved in its inner circle--which, of course, proves to include victimizers as well as victimized. Holzer ( Double Crossing ) fails to give this preposterous scenario any credibility. Her first-person narrative is a muddle, her characters mere stick figures trading trite, underdone commentary on American law enforcement as they move forward a clumsy plot full of illogical twists and unsatisfying elaboration.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Now a Paramount film starring Sally Field.
"Lawyer-turned-novelist Erika Holzer's Eye for an Eye is a disturbing look at street gangs, urban violence, the criminal justice system-a story of vigilantism growing out of the ongoing American obsession with law and order. Impassioned characters, sharp terse writing-a sort of American Clockwork Orange. Highly recommended."-Nelson DeMille.
Novelist-journalist Erika Holzer (Cornell, NYU Law), with husband Hank, in the 1960s represented Ayn Rand?whose mentoring sparked Holzer?s literary career. Her first novel, Double Crossing (Putnam), combined espionage and human rights, earning high praise from Mary Higgins Clark, Phyllis Whitney, and Harry Crews. Her second acclaimed novel combined suspense and justice. Holzer has authored numerous articles, columns, reviews, short stories, and film scripts.
