The Intruders

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• THE INTRUDERS

  From the creator of The Straw Men trilogy comes this remarkable thriller which mixes crime-fiction with a dose of horror, and conspiracy theories resulting in a sense of dread that reaches a crescendo with a very perplexing and terrifying climax. Wha ... (read full critics)

  shotsmag published on Wed, 29 Sep 2010

• The Intruders By Michael Marshall

  Leading off Whodunit? this month is a book that is not strictly a whodunit: Michael Marshall's devilishly clever The Intruders. It starts out normally enough: Jack Whalen, a best-selling author, faces writer's block after the success of his first boo ... (read full critics)

  bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  Good Writing, Good Idea, Stumbled Execution

  This book is teaming with ideas. Like a few recent thrillers, it doesn't try too hard to give you all the answers or explain away things that aren't really important to the story. It is what it is, it happens, deal with it. You only ever know what the lead character knows helping add to the tension ... (continue)

  This book is teaming with ideas. Like a few recent thrillers, it doesn't try too hard to give you all the answers or explain away things that aren't really important to the story. It is what it is, it happens, deal with it. You only ever know what the lead character knows helping add to the tension as the character crashes wildly from one discovery to the next, in a permemnt state of confusion.

  There are a few flaws - some things that we really should have had explained are missing - and if i was the lead character i don't think i'd be satisfied with the answers i had.

  However the writing is fast and tight and the action scenes detailed and pacey.

  This is a well written book, and an intelligent book. All too often the answers are spelled out across the page - this book though uses its secrecy to its advantage. A little more polish towards the end and this would have been excellent.

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• English Books
• Paperback 496 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0007210035
• ISBN-13: 9780007210039
• Publisher: Harper
• Pub date: Feb 04, 2008
• Also available as: Hardcover

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