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Summary: Too Long, should stay Lost.
Review: 25 years earlier the protagonist(Brad Denning) told his younger brother to leave him alone. The boy(Petey) does, and is kidnapped when riding away on his bike, only to show up many years later, to kill his older brother, and kidnap his family.
Brad survives Peter's attempt on his life, but finds his family has been taken by his psychotic younger brother(or is he in fact his younger brother?).
The whole story centers around the guilt ridden Brad searching for his family, by searching through Peter's past, to find out what had happened to him, to turn him into sick, demented person he turned out to be.
Though only 310 pages, the story was way too long, and drawn out, without only three action scenes throughout the whole novel to keep your interest.
This novel rates as one of the worst, by him, or anyone else I have read. The only reason I finished it, was because I liked Morrell's past novels, and expected it to get better at the end, which it did, but not by much.
Read instead, his "Extreme Denial, "Covenant of the Flame", "Desperate Measures", "Fraternity of the Stone","Brotherhood of the Rose", and "League of Night and Fog", and forget about this one.
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Summary: Ready for a closeup
Review: A page turner that reads like a script. A perfect travel/beach read.
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Summary: taut suspense thriller
Review: As the older sibling thirteen-year-old Brad Denning knew he was responsible for his kid brother nine-year-old tag along Petey. However, his friends encouraged Brad to send Petey home. So Brad told Petey to leave. The sobbing preadolescent biked away. However, when Brad returned home for supper he learns that Petey did not come home. Frantically their parents called friends and the police, but the skinny little kid never came home.Nearing forty, Brad is married, has a son, and has a successful architect career, but remains guilt stricken by the sobbing of a LONG LOST nine year old. Desperate for closure he appeals on TV for Petey to come home. In Denver, a mangy looking construction worker calls Brad by name insisting he is Petey. Though initially skeptical, Brad begins to believe him because this guy knows insider things about Brad and their parents. Brad takes Petey home, where his wife and son warmly welcome him. While camping, Petey shoves Brad off the edge of a cliff before abducting his sister-in-law and nephew. Brad survives and begins an odyssey to rescue his family from the avenging serpent. LONG LOST is a taut suspense thriller that hooks readers from the very first line until the one sitting tale is finished. Though Petey's revenge seems extreme, especially the events he committed after he left his brother for dead, the suspenseful plot thoroughly retains its grip on the reader. David Morrell has furnished a powerful haunting thriller with a frightening ending that just adds to the depth of a hard to forget novel Harriet Klausner
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Summary: A great action/suspense novel
Review: Brad Denning's brother Petey is long lost. For the years following the disappearance Brad is tormented by the guilt of responsibility surrounding the disappearance, but in the blink of an eye everything Brad thought he knew about his brother will change. Suddenly Brad is confronted by a man claiming to be his long lost brother, and since "Petey" knows personal things only a brother would know, he has no reason to doubt the man's auhtenticity, until the man disappears once again only this time he takes Brad's wife and son. The FBI believe this man to be a vicious con man, but when they are forced to end their search, Brad will begin a hunt to bring a killer to justice, and bring his wife and child home safely. 'Long Lost' is another action-packed, suspense novel from best-selling author David Morell, and as usual he brings his finely tuned novels with enough thrills to take the place of 10 action movies. His writing is crisp, the plotting well thought out, and the pacing super fast. Fans of suspense novels should not miss this one. A MUST read!...
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Summary: Page turner of the first water
Review: Brad Denning's life is going well--a prosperous Denver based architect ,his work is attracting positive interest nationally ,and his marriage to the beautiful and intelligent Kate is solid and has produced one son ,Jason.There is a shadow over his life however -the disappearance of his younger brother many years previously ,when he was 13 and Petey ,the brother,8 .He blames himself for the vanishing as Petey had been told he was not welcome at a ball game for older kids and was trekking forlornly home ,never to make it. Following an appearance on national TV ,Brad is contacted by a stranger claiming to be his long lost brother and relating a history of abduction ,abuse and casual labouring in construction.He is able to produce snipppets of information that persuade Brad and his family of his bona fides and is welcomed into the family.He rewards them by attemting to murder Brad and then kidnapping Kate and Jason.
FBI investigations come to naught and so Brad sets out to trace the man .Along the way he finds answers to the key questions --Is the man really his brother? Are his family alive and if so can they be rescued. You will have a good time finding out and some of the scenes are especially vivid as when Brad is trapped in a pit full of rattlesnakes (this is similar to the cave scene in First Blood in its vivid intensity) and the book builds to an explosive and powerful climax. Simpler and leaner than some of his more labyrinthine outings this shows the author in a rich vein of literary form and is a satisfying thriller likely to be enjoyed by a wide readership.
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Summary: Morrell is One of the Masters
Review: Brad Dennings is a successful architect with a beautiful wife and a son he loves very much. He has a nice life, but a horrible day from his past turns it all around. Twenty five years earlier, when he was thirteen, he got tired of his nine-year-old younger brother Petey tagging after him, so he sent him home, but Petey never made it. It looked like a kidnapping, because they found his bike and baseball glove. Brad, carries the guilt with him, but buries it over time. A quarter century later a stranger shows up claiming to be Petey. Then Petey disappears again, but this time he takes Brad's wife and son with him. Once again David Morrell has written a novel that will have you on the edge of your seat as you follow along with Brad as he tries to get his stolen family back. When it comes to writing a thriller, Morrell is one of the masters. Review submitted by Captain Katie Osborne
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Summary: Great suspense novel
Review: David Morrell has built his career around suspense novels. His earlier novels often had adventurous sorts (ex-assassins, soldiers, et cetera) battling ... conspiracies. His more recent works have dealt with more human adventures, sometimes with more success than others (I personally find Double Image one of his weakest efforts). In Long Lost, Brad Denning is a successful architect who is traumatized by the unsolved kidnaping of his brother twenty-five years earlier. After being featured on national TV, he encounters a man who claims to be his brother. While this brother appears to be genuine, knowing things only Brad's brother could know, the experienced reader will know that something bad is afoot. And something bad does happen. The brother tries to [end the life of] Brad and kidnaps his wife and son. The FBI assists and tells Brad that the culprit was someone impersonating his brother, but are no good at finding Brad's family. It is up to Brad to figure out if the kidnaper is his brother or not and more importantly to rescue his family. This is a pure suspense novel, a great page turner. Morrell isn't interested in any great insights into human nature, just entertaining, and he succeeds well. A week from reading this, you'll have forgotten the characters names and the settings will begin to fade, but you'll still remember the most important thing: that you had a blast while reading this book.
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Summary: Morrell is losing his edge
Review: David Morrell has long been on my "Must Buy" list of authors. Up until his most recent efforts, I have automatically purchased his books as they were released and waited anxiously for the next. Unfortunately Long Lost is the latest in a string of increasingly depressing novels that I have found a difficult time completing, let alone enjoying.
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Summary: Morrell is losing his edge
Review: David Morrell has long been on my "Must Buy" list of authors. Up until his most recent efforts, I have automatically purchased his books as they were released and waited anxiously for the next. Unfortunately Long Lost is the latest in a string of increasingly depressing novels that I have found a difficult time completing, let alone enjoying.
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Summary: Stay Lost
Review: David Morrell has written two sensational books: Brotherhood of the Rose and Fraternity of the Stone. Unfortunately this book falls way short of his past books as the plot is weak and the whole story is just too absurd. I REALLY like this author, but this time he has written a loser. Try the other two books instead!
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