personality, she needs an authoritative male figure. By playing on her weakness Priest persuades her to do anything. Secondary characters Dusty Quercus: son of Michael and Melanie, suffering from multiple allergies. Bo Maddox: Judy's father and police officer. Raja Khan: works in the FBI, Judy's colleague. Don Riley: Judy's ex-boyfriend, cheated on her with another woman. Repentant, he tries to get closer to the girl, but she no longer loves him. Mike Robson: California governor, gets involved in a vain FBI attempt to set a trap for Priest. At Honeymoon: governor's right arm. Flower: daughter of Star and Priest, dreams of becoming a writer. She tries to get in touch with the civilized world and she likes fashion and movie stars, so much so that she is arrested for stealing a poster of Leonardo DiCaprio. Other members of the hippie commune: Oaktree Dale Poem Aneth Bones Reception Carlos Ramet noted that the character of Judy Maddox, one of the novel's main protagonists, is an example of the a change in Follet's writing that begun with The Third Twin, i.e. "the change in emphasis from male to female perspective" and the development of capable and heroical female characters. He also observes that Maddox's contempt for her superiors, described as the "suits" and "the big shot[s]" from Washington", is representative of Follet's "post-war British ambivalence towards American materialism". With regards to the novel structure, Ramet argues that it combines the "formulaic hunter/hunted device" with "Buchanesque and Hitchcockian elements", and also shows inspiration from Ian Fleming's works. References 1998 British novels Novels by Ken Follett British thriller novels Works about earthquakes Seismology in fiction Pan Books books