This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Never a master of believable or well-structured plot, here he loses control of style and character as well, so what remains is a something like a Dean Koontz/Stephen King piece, minus the usually focused premise, but plus the occasional turn of memorable phrase. This book is choppy throughout loaded with unneeded detail, drifts away from the story and has very little dialogue between the characters.
This is a little different with the character of Dr Eldon Chance-a man who makes successive awful decisions but remains, somehow very likeable. "D" a largely self-invented warrior and Chance's assistant, Lucy with quirks a-poppin' both have great appeal and charm in Nunn's dark and depressing world.The best Robert Stone novel NOT written by Robert Stone...all of the familiar Stone tropes(Nietzsche,The Bible,Shakespeare,Basic Ontology,the Grey Rat,Sentient Mud,sociopathic Zen Lunatics,drugs,alcohol,feckless and disorderly heroes,damaged women,children abandoned to their own devices,,,and that's just off the top of my head) are here in such abundance that it goes beyond homage into ventriloquism...loving Stone's work as I do it's heartening to see a good writer so influenced by and appreciatThe best Robert Stone novel NOT written by Robert Stone...all of the familiar Stone tropes(Nietzsche,The Bible,Shakespeare,Basic Ontology,the Grey Rat,Sentient Mud,sociopathic Zen Lunatics,drugs,alcohol,feckless and disorderly heroes,damaged women,children abandoned to their own devices,,,and that's just off the top of my head) are here in such abundance that it goes beyond homage into ventriloquism...loving Stone's work as I do it's heartening to see a good writer so influenced by and appreciative of the work of The Master...and if you've never read Stone "Chance" is still a terrific and provocative novel...I thought this was an interesting book and very readable. Chance, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UCSF, School of Medicine is a forensic neuropsychiatrist who works with lawyers and attorneys, usually seeing patients only once. Psychiatrist Eldon Chance, who makes his living providing testimony in court cases, is appalled to see the life he had so carefully constructed for himself break apart. I thoroughly enjoyed Nunn's writing style and his perspective. The vocabulary and sentence structure weighed in with a bit more heft than one might expect from your typical thriller, but I still felt shortchanged in the end.