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Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift, he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car. If you don't take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have four hours to decide. The choice is yours. It seems like a sick joke, and Bill's friend on the police force, Lanny Olson, thinks so too. His advice to Bill is to go home and forget about it. Besides, what could they do even if they took the note seriously? No crime has actually been committed. But less than twenty-four hours later, a young blond schoolteacher is found murdered, and it's Bill's fault: he didn't convince the police to get involved. Now he's got another note, another deadline, another ultimatum--and two new lives hanging in the balance.… (más)
I didn't LOVE this book, but I did enjoy it, and it was a fast read, a nice break from reading slow-going classics. There were some details I found a bit distracting, like the fact that keeping a body rolled in plastic for a full day, when the weather is warm enough to make air conditioning desirable, would definitely make the house smell like there is a corpse inside. Mostly this story was well thought out though, and while I had worked out who the bad guys were (and weren't) before the MC figured it out, it took me long enough that I was not just waiting for him to catch up for half the book. As suspense novels go, this one was fairly good. Don't expect finely crafted characters, but if you want fast-reading suspense, this is a decent option.
413/90 - ΄Ενα ιδιαίτερο θρίλερ . Πόσο απορείς με κάθε νέα κίνηση του δολοφόνου . Πόσο τρομαγμένος είναι ο πρωταγωνιστής. ... Δε φαντάζεσαι ούτε καν το δολοφόνο και εκβιαστή. ( )
I did enjoy this book. It definitely was suspenseful and made me wonder what was going to happen next. I wass thrown for a loop a few times, for sure. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
A man can be destroyed but not defeated. -Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea
And now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbour Unless his neighbour makes too much disturbance, But all dash to and fro in motor cars, Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere. -T.S. Elliot Choruses from "The Rock"
Dedicatoria
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
This book is dedicated to Donna and Steve Dunio, Vito and Lynn Cerra, Ross and Rosemary Cerra. I'll Never figure out why Gerda said yes to me. But now your family has a crazy wing.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
With draft beer and a smile, Ned Pearsall raised a toast to his deceased neighbor, Henry Friddle, whose death greatly pleased him.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.
Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift, he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car. If you don't take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have four hours to decide. The choice is yours. It seems like a sick joke, and Bill's friend on the police force, Lanny Olson, thinks so too. His advice to Bill is to go home and forget about it. Besides, what could they do even if they took the note seriously? No crime has actually been committed. But less than twenty-four hours later, a young blond schoolteacher is found murdered, and it's Bill's fault: he didn't convince the police to get involved. Now he's got another note, another deadline, another ultimatum--and two new lives hanging in the balance.
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There were some details I found a bit distracting, like the fact that keeping a body rolled in plastic for a full day, when the weather is warm enough to make air conditioning desirable, would definitely make the house smell like there is a corpse inside. Mostly this story was well thought out though, and while I had worked out who the bad guys were (and weren't) before the MC figured it out, it took me long enough that I was not just waiting for him to catch up for half the book. As suspense novels go, this one was fairly good.
Don't expect finely crafted characters, but if you want fast-reading suspense, this is a decent option.
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