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The Best Revenge (2003)

por Stephen White

Series: Dr. Alan Gregory (11)

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Fiction. Literature. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:In a riveting new novel of psychological suspense, Stephen White shines a brilliant light on the darkness that hides just beneath the surface of ordinary lives, on the fears that cripple us and the prisons we create â??prisons of the body, mind, and spirit. A thriller of runaway tension, taps into our most closely guarded fears, taking us on a harrowing journey into a realm of terror and pain, of love gone wrong and vengeance gone mad.

The Best Revenge

Psychologist Alan Gregory is living through a season of discontent. With a new daughter, a wonderful wife, and a prospering career, he has little to complain about and lots of regrets: past cases that wonâ??t let him go, patients who donâ??t get better, and a growing unease with keeping secrets. But Gregory has two new patients who will drag him out of his introspectionâ??and dare him to enter a storm of
injustice and revenge.

FBI special agent Kelda James is a hero, a woman who as a rookie agent made a choice, drew her gun, and saved a life, taking another. Now Kelda is hiding from the world a secret pain that is gradually crippling her bodyâ??and she has turned to Alan Gregory to help free her from the prison of her pain. Then Kelda refers a patient to Gregory, who is terrifyingly dangerous to them both.

Tom Clone served thirteen years on Coloradoâ??s death row for a crime he claimed he didnâ??t commitâ??until an FBI agent dug up evidence that set him free. The agentâ??s name: Kelda James. With both Kelda and Clone telling him their innermost secrets, Alan Gregory becomes the one person who can piece together an extraordinary puzzleâ??of two unsolved violent deaths of vulnerable women, of a man who may be innocent or may be very lucky, and of the strange, fatal attraction between two people trapped in a horrific plot to get revengeâ??at any price.

A thriller that delivers a stunning body-blow of a surprise ending, captures lives colliding at unpredictable angles, probing the dangerous lies people tell to each other and themselves. In this astonishing work by a novelist at the height of his powers, Stephen White brilliantly blends thrilling action and breakneck pacing with unrivaled insight into t
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A man is released from prison after he spent 13 years on death row for a murder he didn’t commit. Or did he? Throughout, Stephen White’s The Best Revenge, it seems so, then it seems not, then it seems so, etc. And you’ll keep changing your mind as you try to pick up the clues.

I found, though, I missed plenty of clues when I thought White was just giving background at the beginning of the book. Read it carefully.

Someone is making life miserable for the ex-con. Or are they? Why is an FBI agent interested in him? How can their psychologist act ethically knowing what he knows?

A good mystery/thriller does at least three things: 1) it doesn’t make you read several chapters before the action starts; 2) it keeps you from doing anything else because you don’t want to put it down; and 3) it makes you anticipate what’s going to happen, but what happens isn’t what you anticipated. I thought this book accomplished all three of those things.

If you read it, be aware: mysteries and clues to the mysteries bigan at the beginning.

I’m happy to say that I found an author, i.e., Stephen White is a new author for me, and now I get to read the rest of what he’s written. If you like a good mystery/thriller and you haven’t read White yet, I suggest you do. ( )
  techeditor | Apr 8, 2011 |
Very much enjoyed this book. It had a few surprises in it, which doesn't often happen for me anymore. I was interested to find that this was number 11 in a series, but perfectly capable of standing alone. I didn't feel as though I had come to class unprepared. ( )
  millhold | Mar 22, 2011 |
I enjoyed the book more than most I have recently read. There were times when I wanted to skip pages, but I didn't. Then there were chapters that fast forwarded. All of a sudden the character was doing something that I had no prior information of. In fact, I had to go back and look in previous chapters to see if I missed something. All in all, it was a good psychological thriller. I enjoyed the fast pace. Good twist at the end. ( )
  Boutabook | Jul 16, 2010 |
I found this story pretty thrilling and there's some seriously twisted stuff that comes from one of the characters. This story held my interest and I blazed through the chapters pretty quickly, but my only complaint is that it runs long in some areas. I wasn't interested in the many geography lessons and weather lessons of Colorado, but if you skim over that, you will enjoy the rest of the pace of this story. I will definitely read more of Mr. White's books. :) ( )
  MrsLara | Aug 24, 2009 |
I found the first half of this book a bit laborious hence the star rating but the build up to the end and the ending are brilliant. Well worth persevering with.

Psychologist Alan Gregory is treating both a man recently released from prison where he was on death row for a crime he did not commit and the FBI agent who was instrumental in obtaining his release. However, all is not what it seems. There is a scary plot of dark revenge which stems from mistaken accusations and the involvement of local police, one of whom is not at all what he seems. I would have liked to have seen Alan Gregorys cop friend Sam Purdy a bit more. ( )
  Heptonj | Jul 14, 2008 |
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The other is to get it. - George Bernard Shaw

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came along together, who would escape hanging? - Mark Twain
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If Kelda James hadn't been wearing inch-and-a-half heels and the toilet paper roll hadn't been empty, Rosa Alija would probably be dead.
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Fiction. Literature. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:In a riveting new novel of psychological suspense, Stephen White shines a brilliant light on the darkness that hides just beneath the surface of ordinary lives, on the fears that cripple us and the prisons we create â??prisons of the body, mind, and spirit. A thriller of runaway tension, taps into our most closely guarded fears, taking us on a harrowing journey into a realm of terror and pain, of love gone wrong and vengeance gone mad.

The Best Revenge

Psychologist Alan Gregory is living through a season of discontent. With a new daughter, a wonderful wife, and a prospering career, he has little to complain about and lots of regrets: past cases that wonâ??t let him go, patients who donâ??t get better, and a growing unease with keeping secrets. But Gregory has two new patients who will drag him out of his introspectionâ??and dare him to enter a storm of
injustice and revenge.

FBI special agent Kelda James is a hero, a woman who as a rookie agent made a choice, drew her gun, and saved a life, taking another. Now Kelda is hiding from the world a secret pain that is gradually crippling her bodyâ??and she has turned to Alan Gregory to help free her from the prison of her pain. Then Kelda refers a patient to Gregory, who is terrifyingly dangerous to them both.

Tom Clone served thirteen years on Coloradoâ??s death row for a crime he claimed he didnâ??t commitâ??until an FBI agent dug up evidence that set him free. The agentâ??s name: Kelda James. With both Kelda and Clone telling him their innermost secrets, Alan Gregory becomes the one person who can piece together an extraordinary puzzleâ??of two unsolved violent deaths of vulnerable women, of a man who may be innocent or may be very lucky, and of the strange, fatal attraction between two people trapped in a horrific plot to get revengeâ??at any price.

A thriller that delivers a stunning body-blow of a surprise ending, captures lives colliding at unpredictable angles, probing the dangerous lies people tell to each other and themselves. In this astonishing work by a novelist at the height of his powers, Stephen White brilliantly blends thrilling action and breakneck pacing with unrivaled insight into t

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