MINE : MINE

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Summary: A must Read!
Review: "Mine" and "Swan Song" are my two favorite Mccammon books. Basically what this book is about is a woman out to get her baby back from another woman who stole her from the hospital. and boy are you in for a non-stop thrill ride. i read this in practically 2 days. i just could not stop reading it!! Excellant book i am surprised Hollywood has not made a movie out of it. Recommended!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rating:
Summary: A must Read!
Review: "Mine" and "Swan Song" are my two favorite Mccammon books. Basically what this book is about is a woman out to get her baby back from another woman who stole her from the hospital. and boy are you in for a non-stop thrill ride. i read this in practically 2 days. i just could not stop reading it!! Excellant book i am surprised Hollywood has not made a movie out of it. Recommended!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Summary: McCammon delivers
Review: I read this book about 10 years ago. This is not an author that I would normally read. I can't recall why I picked it up in the first place, however, after all these years, this is still a book that I can't get out of my mind. I still search the bookshelves of this author to see if he will write something else of this genre (no luck so far). Great characters all with "do it or die" mentalities. Edge of your seat suspense. One of my all time favorite books.

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Summary: Almost a four star 3-1/2
Review: I wish Amazon had more ratings than 5 stars. There's books like this one that's way better than a 3 star rating but not quite as good as my four star books.

This book deserves a 3-1/2 star for the action alone. mccammon really knows how to keep a book moving with non-stop action and suspense. I read They Thirst by him and that book was the same way. The other positive point is that this is a book about a realistic horror of when a mother's baby is kidnapped. That has to be the worse thing other than death for anyone to experience. mccammon captures this excellently in the way he describes the mothers desparation to find her baby and the sheer terror of not knowing what has happened.
With that said, the best part of the book, is the villian. Mccammon develops a true realistic monster in Mary Terror and successfully explains how this woman has gotten to be so crazy by explaining her past and writing almost half the book from her perspective.
This book tied Stephen King's Misery for the Bram Stoker's award and after reading it you will know why.

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Summary: Should Be Yours
Review: I'm picky about my horror/thrillers. Monsters and fantasy are fun, but realistic stories are what really scare me. Mine is a very plausible, and therefore very frightening tale of a wacko who steals an infant from a hospital shortly after its birth, then runs across the country with it and the baby's distraught mother in hot pursuit. With so many children being abducted in the news lately, this one can hit home whether you've got kids or not. A real goosebump-raiser, page-burner, great read of a book.

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Summary: Mary Terror is loose, and she wants your baby for her own
Review: Incredibly fast-paced thriller that will leave you turning the pages all night long. McCammon is an awesome author, usually tending more towards the traditional monsters, vampires, dead things, ghostly apparitions, and downright evil incarnations; but in `Mine', he has taken on the human monster and painted her with such ferocity that you are left wishing for something fanged and green under your bed.

Mary Terrell is an overweight and aging hippie, unstable and unable to let go of her past. Not the gentle past of flowers and peace and love, but of her persona as Mary Terror, member of the radical and violent Storm Front Brigade led by her old lover, Jack Gardiner, once known as Lord Jack.

Lost in the past and still dropping acid, Mary's last shred of sanity snaps when she kidnaps a baby from the hospital to take to Lord Jack, to replace the baby that was killed twenty years ago when the Storm Front was captured and disbanded.

The baby Mary kidnaps is tiny David Clayborne, newborn to Laura and Doug Clayborne. Just before her delivery, Laura discovers Doug is having an affair, ripping apart her perfect life of happily-ever-after in the suburbs with a BMW.

Laura is beyond desperate when David is discovered missing, and spurred into taking action on her own when the police drag their feet and Doug responds with inept mannerisms and hollow faith in the police.

With only her journalist's background to rely on, Laura leaves the hospital to track down Mary Terror, still weakened from childbirth but determined to get her baby back before Mary inadvertently kills him.

What we are left with is a fingernail-biting chase across three thousand miles, with close calls and near misses and horrific anxiety at every turn. `Mine' literally took my breath away, it was so gripping and tense, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.

WARNING!! First chapter spoiler for the weak of heart. There is a horrifying scene in the first chapter portraying Mary's sickness, in which she tortures a baby. Relax, it's really a doll, but I almost threw the book down because of it. Keep going, the book is well worth the read.


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Summary: Awesome book!
Review: It kept me spellbound from beginning to end. I barely got any sleep until I was finished because it's so hard to put down. A terrifying portrayal of one woman's descent into madness and another woman's descent into a living nightmare.

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Summary: A first rate thriller !
Review: Read this exceptional thriller and I guarantee that the character, Mary (Terror) Terrell, is one that you'll never forget. To be more accurate, this is a novel you'll never forget. Robert R. McCammon's brilliant prose, intelligence and his true love of his work shines brightly in all his novels, and "Mine" is no exception. The terms, "Heart Stopping," "Hair Raising" "Fast and Furious," and "Edge of Your Seat," are being applied way too often on countless unthrilling thrillers, but trust me, they certainly fit the bill for this novel. From beginning to end, this is truly one fun, brutal and beautiful rollercoaster of a novel. All the lead characters are extremely well developed, the pacing is sheer perfection, and the story is sensational and utterly believable throughout. This book is one of those rare gems of fiction that will force the reader to believe that it's a work of non-fiction. Mr. McCammon has the rarest of talents to capture heart pounding intensity and set a mood and atmosphere so well, you will "melt" into the story. If you are tired of all the lackluster thrillers that are saturating the market currently, seek out "Mine" and get reminded of how this genre should be done. Robert R. McCammon is a master, and this novel is just one of his many masterpieces.

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Summary: Excellent psychological suspense
Review: This is a juggernaut of a novel. McCammon is one of the best authors out there and crafts a palpable nightmare out of tangable characters. Extreemly hard to put down-exciting, horrific, and suspenseful. MINE delivers the goods.

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Summary: MINE was an odyssey of terror of the human heart!
Review: This is only the 2nd book I have read by this awesome writer and I enjoyed it immensely. It was so different than the WOLF'S HOUR but equally as good if not better. The action fans out there (such as myself), will be satisfied with this authors work because it is chock full of action aplenty! Now, its not senseless violence - each action sequence has its purpose and is skillfully done, sometimes frightingly so. This book grabbed me from the first chapter, and it didn't want to let you go. The storyline and characters are 1st rate in my opinion - and I have well over 30-years of experience in reading all genres. This guys the bomb! I have SWAN SONG and GOIN SOUTH next to read - and I can't wait!