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This psychological thriller will chill the listener to the bone. A group of fanatical, right-wing religious extremists kidnaps 11 children and their bus driver. Reporter Molly Cates races against time to find and rescue them. Judith Ivey performs this story with an incredible number of voices and accents, each carefully crafted for the appropriate character. Samuel Mordecai, the fanatics' leader, is particular strident. Ivey captures the New York City and Hispanic accents as easily as the Southern Texas twangs. Music dramatizes the performance and the horror of the situation. The story line is disturbing, but the performance is worthy of the best suspense novel. M.B.K. ŠAudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the audio cassette edition of this title From Booklist , August 19, 1995
Walker's Red Scream not only garnered raves from critics and readers, it also won the 1994 Edgar Award. Just a year after this hard-to-top performance, Walker has produced another dynamite thriller. Intrepid, wisecracking crime reporter Molly Cates is back, this time confronting wacko cult leader Samuel Mordecai, whose Austin, Texas, compound is just as bound-for-tragedy as David Koresh's. Mordecai believes the end of the world is imminent, and according to a divine vision he's received, he must... read more Book Description
The author and heroine of The Red Scream return in a novel so terrifying, so filled with squirming suspense, it's bound for the bestseller lists. When Kirkus Reviews greeted Mary Willis Walker's last book, The Red Scream, with "welcome to the big time," they weren't kidding. That novel established Walker as an author with "the kind of clout that sets publishers' mouths watering" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). And now she has done it again, with an unforgettable tale ripped from the headlines and... read more Synopsis
Journalist Molly Cates, heroine of the Edgar Award-winning The Red Scream, returns, and finds herself at the heart of a bitter standoff when a fanatical madman she's profiled in the past kidnaps a busload of hostages--promising to hold them until the time arrives for his apocalyptic revenge. As time slips away, Cates must confront him while the lives of 12 people hang in the balance. HC: Doubleday. read more
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Not bad, but not great either
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Angela Linton
from Manchester ,UK
October 25, 1999
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I would have given this book 3.5 stars but there doesn't seem to be an option to do it. The score is not meant to be derogatory - I would reserve a score of 4 or 5 only for books which I found to be exceptionally good. This was a fairly enjoyable read, but overall I found it quite predictable. The plot, in the hands of someone like Thomas Harris, could be nailbitingly suspenseful, but somehow MWW never really convinces me that the children are in danger and Samuel Mordecai is never quite the terrifying figure that the author intends him to be. Fair enough, very few writers can really enter the mind of a psycopath (a couple of exceptions which spring readily to mind are the already-mentioned Harris and Stephen King). The best part of this book for me was the Emily Dickenson poem from which the title is derived, which I never seen before. It has an eerie haunting quality which sadly the book completely lacked. But for all that it was a fairly entertaining read, and I would certainly be happy to pick up this author's works in the library or second hand. I wouldn't pay full price though ...
--This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
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Best book I've read since High School!
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A reader
from Chicago, Illinois
August 1, 1999
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I loved this one! The level of suspense is thrilling. I never wanted to put it down & promptly purchased all the other books by this author! It seemed so real, like it came straight from the news!
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I thought the book was a great read!
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A reader
from Austin, Texas
April 8, 1999
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I thought the book was a great read! I was looking for a book set in Austin and someone recommended this author to me. This is the first Mary Willis Walker book I've read, but I'll definitely read more. A couple of the plotlines were predictable, but, being from Austin, I enjoyed her use of the city in the book. I enjoyed the character development and the writing style. If you're interested in Austin, I say read her.
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Not a fan of the style
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A reader
from Canada
March 5, 1999
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I read the book because of all the positive comments made about it. But, I found the characters to be predictable. Also, I definitely don't like the style of writing where MWW tries to convince us that something definitely won't happen - and then it does (e.g., Cates knew it was a dead end, what could this drunk remember after 30 years) and miraculously he remembers plenty! I found several of these instances.
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