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Summary: A MUST READ!!!
Review: While in Hong Kong, photojournalist Jordan Glass, wanders into an art museum. While admiring the work, she is besieged with stares, and horrified glances by the others in the gallery, within moments Jordan realizes why she is receiving this reaction...for on the wall is a painting of a woman, a woman that is identical to her...Knowing she did NOT pose for this picture, Jordan knows it can be only one other person, her twin sister who went missing a year ago. Dashing off to New York, Jordan wants to come face to face with an artist who has connections to the artist of the THE SLEEPING WOMEN paintings, only when she arrives in NYC, the artist is not cooperative, and within minutes his building is torched, leaving him dead. Barely escaping the horrendous fire, Jordan is approached by the FBI with a tempting proposition...help them catch the madman who is abducting women, killing them, and then painting them, and they will get her all the answers she is seeking about her sister's disappearance. Plunged into a nightmare race to catch a killer, Jordan will be the hunter, and the hunted, as this crazed individual knows the secrets that plague her family's past. 'Dead Sleep' is a non-stop ride of pure enjoyment. The pace is super fast, hurtling forward on page one, and never slowing down. Twist after twist, the reader is kept guessing at what shock Mr. Iles has in store for us, and when everything gets comes together at the end, the reader is blown away. Greg Iles has quickly become one of my favorite suspense authors, and as any reader of his novels knows, if you are taking one of his books on vacation, take a back up because once you start his books you will not put it down until it's finished, usually within a few hours! A MUST read! Nick Gonnella
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Summary: Fanastic thriller
Review: Thirteen months ago, Jordan Glass's twin sister Jane vanishes in New Orleans and is probably dead. Though Jordan subsequently wins a Pulitzer like her deceased father did in Cambodia, she feels empty. Her agent and her friends insist she take a vacation so Jordan complies, but arranges a book deal because she knows she would feel naked without a camera. Jordan travels to Hong Kong and at the urging of a friend, visits the Hong Kong Museum of Art where everyone acts strange towards her. She learns why when she sees the exhibition of "Nude Women in Repose" by an anonymous artist, whom the Asian art world believes paints dead models. One picture looks identical to her; thus Jordan knows that the "model" is Jane. Jordan informs the FBI Investigative Support Unit and heads to New York to confront the unknown artist's agent Jonathan Wingate. Soon she finds herself as the bait in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the FBI on one hand and one or two unknown subjects kidnapping, killing, and painting New Orleans women. DEAD SLEEP is an exciting suspense thriller that hooks the reader the moment Jordan steps into the museum and never slows down for a paragraph. Jordan is a fabulous lead character struggling between her fears and her needs to find the culprit(s). The story line is exhilarating as Jordan, the perp(s), and two Feds (the return of Baxter and Lenz from MORTAL FEAR) make Greg Iles latest tale a sure shot for most short lists for thriller of the year. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Stunning, informative book
Review: This is a thriller about the extent to which some people go to enjoy the unusual in art. More that that, it is the story of Jordan Glass, a photo-journalist whose twin sister disappeared some time ago. It is her story of struggle, hopes, fears and redemption. It is as "picture perfect" (pardon the pun) a book as possible with interesting, riveting characters - both good and bad. The internal workings of the FBI, the love story with the agent, the four suspects and their stories - it is beyond me how anyone can find fault with this book. True, it is not an action packed thriller (quote unquote) but for those who are more inclined to the thriller (as opposed to the shoot-em-up type), it is a welcome addition.
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Summary: Can artistic genius coexist with serial killing?
Review: When Jordan Glass, a photographer known for seeking dangerous assignments, finds the lifeless form of her missing twin sister depicted in one of the paintings that are part of an exhibit of "sleeping women" in Hong Kong, little does she know that she is about to embark on a perilous journey searching for the connection between one or more artists and a series of kidnappings of women in New Orleans, including her sister.
Having been stonewalled by law enforcement personnel when her sister first disappeared, Jordan insists on being an integral part of an intensified investigation now conducted by the FBI. Through her eyes, the reader is treated to an inside look at FBI processes, including psychological profiling and the identification and questioning of suspects.
The characters are well sketched, including the suspects. The peculiarities of the art world and the predilections of its inhabitants is well explored. The dialogue can drag a bit, but not to the point of distraction. Jordan is a compelling character with the edge taken off her tough-girl routine just enough in her relations with FBI agent John Kaiser. The book does generally have a good pace with the ending flowing well from what has transpired. This book shows why Isles is regarded as one of the better writers in this genre.
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Summary: Great thriller - the ending could be more satisfying, though
Review: If you're acquainted with Greg Iles' work, you know that he's a different author. His books are very different one from another. He changes subjects, pace, types of characters. He's able to write a legal thriller with the same easiness he writes a very fast kidnapping story. With "Dead sleep", Iles continues to prove - at least to me - that he's one of the most talented thriller authors of the last ten years, along with Michael Connelly.
In "Dead sleep", the main character this time is a woman. I think most male writers have this dream of writing at least a book where the main character is a woman, but few dare to try, because creating a decent character of the opposite sex is not an easy task. I think Iles did a good job with Jordan Glass, the award-winning war-zone photographer in "Dead sleep". He did a good job, not a great one, but that's good enough. Jordan came up a little too similar to a man, but even so she has interesting feminine features, and she's believable for most of the novel. Her background life is very interesting. She's a strong character, living - and doing well - in a male environment.
While visiting Hong Kong, Jordan faces a series of paintings portraying sleeping women, but one of those women has her very face - or the face of her twin sister, who's been missing (kidnapped) for the past year and half. Jordan teams up with agent John Kaiser and his FBI squad, in the search of eleven kidnapped women and the madman - or madwoman - that's killing to create his artistic masterpieces.
As usual, Iles throws a lots of balls in the air, and during the entire novel he keeps them off the ground. I didn't like the ending, though. It is not much believable, and a little too convenient. But it didn't spoil the fun of reading this great thriller. The series of interviews with the suspects has great dialogues, and a very good character development - the level of which is hard to come across these days.
Grade 8.8/10
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Summary: enticing
Review: Jordan Glass gets a suprise when she visits a museum at Hong Kong: A painting of herself in the nude. Or maybe of her missing twin? Working with the FBI, they set in motion a series of events with unimaginable consequences.
In the Dead Sleep we are pulled with the narration of J. Glass. She's undoubtably one of the better female protagonists I've read for a while; who wouldn't fall in love a sexy forty-something photojournalist? Writing in the first person, Greg Iles immerses us in her life, taking us through a potpourri of themes like art, death, war, and psychology. Also the enemy is brilliant, cunning, and violent: the makings of a worthy adversary.
Dead Sleep is a masterpiece worthy of the Nabis, we are provoked to examine our thoughts on issues like death and art.
Enjoy this book before you repose.
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Summary: A well written, if outlandish, mystery
Review: Iles is, first and foremost, and excellent writer. He brings his characters to life in a way that few in this genre do (are you listening John Grisham?). THe story works so very until the last 50 pages or so. Each revelation is more outlandish than the next. There is an overly long scene where the killer explains his motivates and pieces together the whole plot. The revel scene with the killer strains belief. The final twists are welcome, but also kind of "out there." Still, it was nice to read such a well written book and be geniunely surprised (even if the surprises are crazy)!
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Summary: Replacing Runaway Jury as my favorite book
Review: While in Hong Kong photojournalist Jordan Glass stumbles into a museum to discover the paintings of an unkown artist titled "The Sleeping Women." Jordan also discovers that the subject in one of the paintings is her exact replica. Could this be her twin sister who was abducted several months ago??? Are these women really sleeping, or are they dead???
Excellent read! I could barely stand to put the book down for any reason. The plot is well written and has many twists and turns to keep you guessing until the last page. All of the characters in the book are very well developed to the point you feel you know them as real people. If you enjoy well written suspense then this is a book for you!
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Summary: Stunning, informative book
Review: This is a thriller about the extent to which some people go to enjoy the unusual in art. More that that, it is the story of Jordan Glass, a photo-journalist whose twin sister disappeared some time ago. It is her story of struggle, hopes, fears and redemption. It is as "picture perfect" (pardon the pun) a book as possible with interesting, riveting characters - both good and bad. The internal workings of the FBI, the love story with the agent, the four suspects and their stories - it is beyond me how anyone can find fault with this book. True, it is not an action packed thriller (quote unquote) but for those who are more inclined to the thriller (as opposed to the shoot-em-up type), it is a welcome addition.
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Summary: Skip This One
Review: Greg Iles is a talented writer, and an especially gifted narrator. This book, however, doesn't even begin to showcase his talent. The premise of the book is interesting; someone is painting a series of pictures of women who are either dead or sleeping. The main character's twin sister has disappeared and shows up as one of the subjects in the paintings. With the help of the FBI, she tries to track down the painter---who may also be a killer. The book begins with a bang, and the first few chapters will have the reader frantically turning pages. After that, though, Iles kills the book by bogging it down with about 250 pages of nothing but dialogue. Very little happens during this time period other than dialogue, dialogue, dialogue---which is fine in small amounts, but the plot withers and dies during this time and the reader is left bored and disappointed. Iles could benefit from a more talented editor who could explain to him that he could easily accomplish in 2 or 3 pages what he routinely spends 20 pages writing about. Creating good characters and believable dialogue is fine, but Iles doesn't know when to stop. As he has done in several other books, he spends literally dozens of pages giving detailed descriptions of people who have little or nothing to do with the plot. Once again, I don't blame Iles, I blame his editor. I was about to give up on this one midway through but it became exciting again when I reached the last 100 pages. The ending left me somewhat disappointed and I found myself wishing that the book had been as good as the first Iles book I ever read, Sleep No More. If you're looking for a tightly-crafted suspense thriller, try that instead and leave Dead Sleep on the shelf.
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