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Mortal Fear

Mortal Fear

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A great read!
Review: This was my first Iles title and I was impressed. Couldn't put it down, then promptly ordered all other available books by him. Mortal Fear has an incredible 'end game' and kept me guessing until the last chapters. Great writing on a fascinating subject (serial killers). After reading several of his other titles, this remains my favorite.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Clever and lusty.
Review: Great plot, suspense and tension are well used, and the medical and technological aspects are well researched. Overall, an exciting page turner. An observation: the women in this novel are unusually, shall we say, "unselfish" sexually, happily bringing the men satisfaction, asking nothing in return - and getting nothing in return! The women give, the men take. Too graphically sexual and violent for me to completely enjoy the book.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The best of Greg Iles
Review: Mortal Fear was the first Greg Iles book I read and I was hooked on his writing ever since. Though I have read several other books by Greg Iles and found them all very well written and entertaining, Mortal Fear remains at the top of my list for his all time best work. Don't be surprised if this one gets made into a movie in the near future. Being into computers and internet as I am, the subject matter (which revolves around a sort of killer who finds women using chat rooms, etc) fascinated me. I was hooked from the first few pages and I RARELY read a book without several large breaks in between. This book I read non stop and it was well worth the other things in my life I sacrificed to read it :)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Gripping Tale of near-horror!
Review: Wait for the first howling snow storm, wrap yourself in a warm afghan and sit in front of a crackling fire to read this masterpiece. My bet is that with the chills running up your spine you will still be cold!

A serial killer, who thinks he is the reincarnation of Promethius, stalks his victims on EROS, a site dedicated to uncensored, explicit sexual fantasies. Once he finds a suitable victim he is relentless in seeking them out and completing his act of murder right in their own home. However, in each case, he takes a trophy - one which it will be hard for you to believe. You will get out of your chair more than once to check your windows and doors.

It is written again in the first-person style that works so well for Iles and for the reader. With Harper Cole, his wife Drewe and her sister Erin at the core of the novel, their personal stories intertwine as Harper and his buddy,Miles, who is the creator of E.R.O.S. try to catch the killer and instead become suspects in the murders. They become the hunters and the hunted. Hunted by the FBI, the state police and the ever-present yet elusive Promethius.

They are always just one step behind this brillinat, seemingly unstoppable killer, but the ending chapters will have you forgetting to breathe as each horror unfolds.

A truly thrilling work,one which I shall read again and again. Although it is over 600 pages, I finished it in a day and promise you that you also will find it difficult not to read it straight through.

Take the journey through this fascinating, scintillating work but make sure your seat belt is on! Enjoy!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Killers on the Internet
Review: Pretty fair serial killer story with a modern, tech twist. It keeps you guessing but the chatroom mind game dialogue and the enormously frustrating immorality that occurs made me want to put the book down several times. The end is disapointing, as are most book endings. Typically, the tension builds until the end and then...the big letdown.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: My favorite book
Review: Personally I feel this book is about as sadistic as Silence of the Lambs. I never liked to read very much since I could not get into the stories. But this book I could not put down. After I finished the book my mom let one of her friends borrow it and she threw it in the garbage. My mom told me that her friend could not handle the book and it was giving her nightmares.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Don't waste your time on this!
Review: If you have to read a medical thriller, try Michael Palmer's. Mortal Fear is way too boring. You don't know what's going on until the last moment, without any clues how it leads to that.

What an overrated book!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Comfort
Review: I found this book less rewarding than his first two efforts if only because the subject material made me feel less comfortable. Perhaps that is the highest recommendation I can give the book.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Good, but no Black Cross
Review: Mortal Fear has scenes of incredible suspence (for example when the cops go down in the underground corridor), gore and sex and whatnot - and some non-realistic characters, I mean, c'mon, Iles's FBI is a bit too informative toward their suspects :) -, but lacks the overwhelming grimness of Black Cross - now THAT is a masterpiece!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Great Read
Review: This is a great book for computer junkies to read. I myself am not a computer junkie, but I really enjoyed this book.


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