About this title: Dr Judd Stevens, an attractive psychoanalyst, is accused of murdering a patient. He eventually finds himself trapped into a chilling game where in order to survive he has to change from being hunted to the hunter. Sheldon's other recent novels include "If Tomorrow Comes" and "Sands of Time".
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"If nothing else, like most Sheldon books, this is a page turner. By no means does it have any "literary merit," but it does provide some entertainment value."
"The first book that I've read by this author and I loved it.I liked the main character and the way that he solved the mystery. A really good thriller."
"I decided to re-read the Sidney Sheldon canon when some friends and I chanced upon a second hand bookstore I used to patronize in high school. Look, I'm not much for the general fiction genre these days. But then, I thought Sheldon was a maestro - he taught me everything I needed to know about world geography, history, politics, gastronomy, and sex. He was the Hitchcock of wordsmithing cliffhangers - without special effects or red herrings, he wrote compelling fiction so thrilling I had to hold on to the side of my armchair lest I fell off.
I don't remember the details of most books well, so in many cases, it was a re-introduction to the characters and plot minutiae. However, I am all too familiar with Sheldon's style and so I find myself able to second guess every twist and every shocker designed to jump you out of your rational, everyday denizen skin. Still, the man was a genius. Without smearing himself with the over-sensationalism of a Dan Brown, his out-of-this-world mousetraps and double crosses and triple threat turns remain revelationary and compelling. I could not stop.
All that being said, this is likely one of his weakest works. Talk about red herrings - every device and explanation to ensure you'll be shocked out of your mind when the culprit to the novel's mystery was revealed is just plain fishy and dissatisfying. It's like a Michael Bay movie, when you know he has Michael Mann potential. But for the obsessive compulsive looking to revisit a bit of teenage starry-eyed wonder and disbelief at the atrocities of the world, why not see where it all started? If anything, the book, published in 1970, is such an interesting purview of how far we have developed societally. I chuckled at the use of "Negress" to describe a young black female character, and the terse, disapproving tones of other characters in reference to a "homosexual." O culture!"
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