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MANNER OF DEATH by Stephen White - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKSee all titles by Stephen White.
Ever make a move that's come back to haunt you later in life? Ever
take a relatively innocuous step one day that ended up spelling tragedy
on another; one that possibly resulted in the deaths of numerous
colleagues and friends? Well, we certainly hope not -- but that's the
frightening premise of Manner of Death, the latest spellbinding psychological romp from New York Times bestselling novelist Stephen White (Critical Conditions) and his character Dr. Alan Gregory.
Dr. Alan Gregory, the Boulder psychologist whose previous six cases have all introduced him to murderers, becomes a killer's target
himself. The news comes when Gregory travels to Denver for his old
school acquaintance Dr. Arnold Dresser's funeral. A pair of retired FBI
agents hired by Dresser's mother lay out an elaborate pattern of
accidents stretching back 10 years, all involving members of the 1982
Orange Unit on Eight East of the University of Colorado's Health
Sciences Center. Long before Dresser froze to death after a
mountain-climbing accident, Gregory's supervising psychiatrist died in
a plane crash; his fellow residents have fallen victim to
malfunctioning tanning beds, disappeared from cruise ships, and been
slain in drive-by shootings. And now, the ex-Feebies tell him, it's his
turn, since he and Dr. Sawyer Sackett Faire are the only surviving
alumni of the 1982 Orange Unit.
Gregory's terror is mixed with guilt
and fascination, since he can't forget the torrid affair he and the
beautiful, unapproachable Sawyer carried on during their residency.
Now, when he does see her again, after replaying his memories of their
earlier romance, he'll find out the secrets she was carrying around 17 years ago - though not
before the killer booby-traps the renovation at Gregory's house and sends his wife, ADA Lauren Crowder, and
their dog to the hospital. The murderer, Gregory feverishly realizes,
could be anybody connected with Eight East - the ex-patient reborn as a
CNN anchor, the chess-playing schizophrenic Gregorywas forced to
release, or the man who offered to trade the identity of real-life
airplane hijacker D.B. Cooper for his ticket off the floor.
A newly honed sense of humor adds zip to White's prose without detracting a mite from the menace and gore. Even if the reader has never read an Alan Gregory thriller before, Manner of Death
comes highly recommended.
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