Deathwatch

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Summary: A great suspense for anyone!!
Review: Deathwatch is an excellent book about a young man who needs money for college. When hes offered money to track down an animal in the desert he takes it but the man who made the offer isn't all that normal. The abnormal man basically tells the young man to strip naked in the desert and run because hes going to hunt him down and kill him. This book should of been called "SUSPENSE" So if you like suspense READ this book its EXCELLENT!!

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Summary: Deathwatch
Review: Deathwatch is a book geared for young adults who enjoy a good suspense and good all around excitment. This book is about an honest and good meaning young man who has to win a two way battle between a tycoon who lies and cheats his way through life and a desert. If the young man doesn't out smart both of them one could mean certain dismise. If you like a novel that keeps you guessing until the last page then read this most outstanding young readers novel

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Summary: WORST BOOK EVER!!!!!!
Review: My God!!!! Where do I begin? This book had a seedy plot, horrible, stupid, imcompetent, characters, and no style at all! I had to read this year in English. It looked okay, but then I read it, and I had to restrain myself from throwing it straight into a trashcan. The ending was just plain awful. It was stupid!

This guy is running around in the desert being chased by a psychopath with a rifle intent on killing him because this guy being chased saw the other dude kill someone with his rifle, of which you never find if it is intentional or not. The guy being chased is running around [...] naked in the scorching desert! Ewwww! How is that for being sick? Ughhh.

If I could, I would give this book negitative infinity stars! Unfortunately, I can't, so I must contend with one star that it doesn't deserve. I was so disgusted with it a can't even explain. The ending I can't even guess what went on that man's mind to end it that way. So this book was horrible. That's all I have to say.

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Summary: Not a book I'd perfer to read.
Review: Deathwatch is a book written by Robb White about two men, Ben and Madec, who go out to hunt big horn sheep. Little did Ben know that Madec was a complete psycho. The story, for the most part, is set in the middle of a vast, hot desert. Overall, the book was not very great. The best part about it was probably the gruesome, sadistic detail the author had.
It is interesting to think about how the author got such an idea to write this book. Madec's character is just so low and inhumane, uncaring, and cold. It is hard to believe that people like that actually exist. Madec's personality is the type that everyone just loves to hate. In the beginning it seems like all Madec can do is lie and backstab. First, he lies about the man he shot. Then, he takes Ben's gun and shoots the dead man; therefore, if Ben brings the dead man in, they do not know who really shot him (Ben or Madec). Also, towards the end, he just makes up this completely different story about what really happened, causing Bed to go to jail.
The hardships that Madec puts Ben through are just so horribly unimaginable. While reading this book, one wants to think that this could never happen. Madec deprives Ben of water, food, and proper clothing, making him run around naked in the desert to the nearest interstate. Ben's knowledge, on the other hand, helps him survive through the torture. He fines a cliff that has a cave inside of it, and despite the fact that the water is extremely soiled, he drinks as much as he can. The author's description on how Ben obtains his food in the cave is just horribly disgusting. He shoots birds with a slingshot he found and eats them raw. It is Ben's only hope for survival.
As the book progresses, and Ben figures out a way to finally outsmart Madec, it seems to get a bit more suspenseful. This time, not with horrid survival tactics, but instead with a growing desire to just slap Madec. Ben drags Madec to the sheriff's office, and then to the hospital, when what Ben should have done is leave him in the desert for a day, at gunpoint, without clothes, food, or water. Nonetheless, Ben, who has a good heart, brings him to good health, and the only thing Madec does is plot and describe the different story to his lawyers and the people at the sheriff's office. When Ben finds out about this, he is just appalled. It is unbelievable the myth that Madec tells. Madec also disposed of all of Ben's evidence, to support his story. After much drama in the sheriff's office, the Doctor finally comes in, and even though the fact that he looks cold and helpless, he ends up being on Ben's side, and finds the one piece of evidence Ben needed for his story to come together.
As the book closes, Ben is asked if is to be charged with aggravated assault. Ben says that he is here to report an accident.
Overall, the book was not very pleasing. The story plot was just aggravating, and Madec was just the worst person anyone could encounter. This book also lacks for any ideas on improvements. Depending on the person, they may have a different feel for it. As for someone who hates people who lie, deceit, backstab, this book is not for them.


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Summary: Excellent book, with immense suspense!
Review: Deathwatch is an exciting and enthralling novel; it all starts with a boy named Ben. Ben is a young man who is the hunting guide for a very rich business man from California. This rich man, Madec, finally gets his once-in-a-life-time chance to legally hunt big horn sheep out in the desert. Ben and Madec are searching for big horn when they both think they see one. Madec shoots. Upon reaching the site where they presumed a living big horn once stood, they realize that what had been shot was, in actuality, an old prospector. Being an honest person, Ben wants to report the accident; but Madec does not see it as simply as Ben. Madec sees it as a waste of time. Madec offers Ben money in an attempt to persuade Ben to ignore the incident. Too much for Ben, he rejects Madec's offer and tells him that they must notify the authorities. After quite a long argument Madec ends up forcing Ben to take off all his clothes except his pants and walk the 30 some miles home. Madec changes his mind and decides that it is too risky to even give Ben a chance to survive the journey home; consequently, Madec follows Ben everywhere to make sure that he doesn't get home alive.

The characters are very well portrayed in this novel. Each feeling and action is described so fully that the reader actually feels as if they are right beside the victim; at times they might even feel as if they are the victim. The author truly brings to life pain and suffering. Each character's analysis and thoughts about their situation are so well depicted that the reader is left dumbfounded. Ben's integrity creates an immense amount of suspense over the course of Deathwatch. It is amazing to see how Madec treats his previous companion and hunting guide. Life is no longer an option for Ben, at least in Madec's eyes. Ben must find some way of getting out of this mess. As this story unfolds situations do not lessen in complexity for Ben. Ben must now rely fully on his knowledge of the human anatomy and the desert if he wishes to survive.

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Summary: Daethwatch rocks
Review: Deathwatch - just like the title describes is about a man who struggles to survive the devastating heat of the desert with no water or shelter with the `deathwatch' ticking away his life.

The book is about Ben, a young fellow who spends one week in the desert to assist a bighorn hunter to earn money to pay for his college. What was supposed to be an easy earning for Ben turns out to be a life or death situation. The nightmare begins when, Madec, the hunter who is authorized by the county to hunt bighorns for one week in the desert, shoots his rifle killing an old man. Madec being insane and scared suggests keeping it a secret. Ben making his judgment that they cannot continue hunting with a dead man argues. Ben ends up being left to die, stripped naked with no supply for him to survive in the hot dry desert. The book was a page-turner with all the element of a thrilling adventurous book. I really liked the book because it was very descriptive of the things that happened for example the power of what a .358 magnum gun can do to you. I think the only negative part to the book was that Robb White stretched a bit too much in the middle of the book with constant description of Ben's painful throat from thirst. I think other than that it was a amazing book with constant surprises and thrilling action. I recommend this book to anyone from a not-so-into-books to an I-am-a-book-worm people.