The Intruder

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Summary: Junk!
Review: I had seens ads for this book all over the subway a few years back. The plot looked cool and it had some good reviews on the covers. However, the book was far from the book I thought it would be. It was plain stupid. An interesting plot turns into something very different. I read this book on an airplane, where I had nothing else to do, and still found this book to stink. IN my opinion do not waster your time. Read some David Morrell or Nelson Demille. Do not waste your time with this.

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Summary: Hated to see it end...
Review: I happened to be running unusually early for a doctor's appointment last week, when I decided to stop by a local department store. The thought of buying a magazine crossed my mind, as I anticipated the wait once I arrived at the office. I thought this book looked like it might help me "kill time." What a lucky break for me!

This book had me on the edge of my seat. Of course, I wasn't sitting the entire time I read it...I even took it with me to the grocery store so that I could read it while I was waiting in line at the checkout stand. Couldn't put it down. What a winner!

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Summary: The Best
Review: I have read only two of the author's other books, but by now it's obvious that this is not another standard mass market thriller writer. Mr. Blauner's books have real character and individual texture. It's true that The Intruder is the most straight-forward and exciting of the novels of his that I've read, but the people in it are far more shaded, nuanced, and real than they are in most genre fiction. Readers who think they are cliches just aren't reading carefully enough or better yet should stick to Grisham novels. I read this book two years ago and still it haunts me.

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Summary: Awful...
Review: I picked up this book to read during a long flight, and I am so sorry I did. It is supposed to be gripping and exciting, but all I did was yawn! And I read some 200 pages before I gave up. I always take books on overseas flights because I usually cannot sleep to save my life. I wish I had taken another-any other-book besides this one! That flight, I can assure you, was dreadfully long.

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Summary: An electrifying, nerve gripping insightful look into madness
Review: I read Peter Blauner's gripping, "The Intruder" and plunged deep into the kind of madness that walks the streets of urban America. The streets twist, meander and periodically send you rushing headlong into a black, mind-shattering pitch. You wonder if you'll ever get back to the real world but then you realize it IS today's real world. The world in urban America. It's mind-shattering to acept that what happens to the Schiff family could easily happen to yours. Absolutely electrifying reading! Folami Abiade

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Summary: James Patterson meets "The Bonfire of the Vanities"
Review: in this heart-stopping thriller that takes the usual "psychopath meets family that has it all" genre and adds some welcome twists, including the mafia, family loss, martial problems, and the societal safety net. All of these elements blend nicely to form a fast paced and intelligent thriller that will keep you hooked until the surprising yet thoroughly satisfying ending. Don't miss this one.

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Summary: STREET JUSTICE
Review: In this rather downer of a novel, Peter Blauner etches realistic and scathing portraits of a diverse cast: Jake Schiff, a power house lawyer who finds his life turned upside down by the invasion of a "street Person" with severe emotional problems; his wife, Dana, a psychiatric social worker whose involvement with this same person catapults her family into a vortex of danger; John Gates, the street person whose tragic past and dependence on drugs, spirals him into a maze of terror; Philip, a sly mafia man who insinuates himself into Jake's life and through a murder sets a path of irretrievable terror.
Blauner has a deft touch in creating seemingly hopeless situations, and though he redeems himself with characters finally doing something right, it ends on a rather dim vision of the future of our characters.
Well done but disheartening.

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Summary: STREET JUSTICE
Review: In this rather downer of a novel, Peter Blauner etches realistic and scathing portraits of a diverse cast: Jake Schiff, a power house lawyer who finds his life turned upside down by the invasion of a "street Person" with severe emotional problems; his wife, Dana, a psychiatric social worker whose involvement with this same person catapults her family into a vortex of danger; John Gates, the street person whose tragic past and dependence on drugs, spirals him into a maze of terror; Philip, a sly mafia man who insinuates himself into Jake's life and through a murder sets a path of irretrievable terror.
Blauner has a deft touch in creating seemingly hopeless situations, and though he redeems himself with characters finally doing something right, it ends on a rather dim vision of the future of our characters.
Well done but disheartening.

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Summary: Big build-up results in huge disappointment.
Review: Looking for a fresh, entertaining thriller, I took this little wonder home, having been thoroughly convinced of its merits by nothing more than the dozens of glowing quotes from famous authors and critics. By page 100, however, I realized I had been taken by those savvy Warners marketeers. All I'd found was shallow character development riding a boring, cliche-riddled plot - irritatingly presented in the present tense (read, screenplay). Trusting that the blurbs weren't all just some hack's fantasies, I skipped ahead a hundred pages. No improvement. Fuming, I scanned the last dozen pages.... even the big finale fizzled. I was thankful that I hadn't wasted time reading the whole thing. I can't blame Mr. Blauser. Like most of us, he's gotta eat. Let's give him the benefit of a doubt. THE INTRUDER probably started out in life as a screenplay for a TV movie and would've been OK if left at that. But evidently somebody at Warner's convinced his agent that with very little effort they could crank up the PR machine and make more in 3 months on the paperback BS list than they could on TV. That's Showbiz... I just wonder if any of the Names quoted on the cover ever really read this book.

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Summary: The Intruder Will Deliver
Review: Peter Blauner has a way in scaring the heck out of you with this book. The intruder in the novel will surprise you, as well as put fear in your thoughts. This book is one that can't be put down . The plot is devised in a way that compells you to continue you reading until you have devoured the book in one sitting! I can not tell you enough that you had better pick this book up when you have a lot of time on your hands because all other things will melt away until this book is finished.