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Title: Like Thomas Harris on [drugs.]
Review: Just finished reading this one on the recommendation of a friend and - hooha - it's one crazy book. Take all the obsessive, meticulous research of Thomas Harris, add in the hard-boiled worldview of James Ellroy, and mix it all with a big dose of twisted sexual psychopathology and you get this book. Mind-bogglingly complicated, rich with character and plot, it only misses greatness by having almost TOO crowded a canvass (at a couple of key points, I had to go back in the novel to refresh my memory or catch something I missed - and I am NOT a careless or inattentive reader). Still, where most thriller writers just phone in their books, Slade (a pseudonym) clearly cares about delivering something provocative, frightening, and original.
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