Phantom
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Would you sell your hand for a million dollars?
Regan "Roz" Osbourne is broke. Her ex-boyfriend won't take no for an answer, and no one is taking her artwork seriously. So when a mysterious stranger offers her a million dollars and safety from her unstable ex in exchange for her left hand, she can't afford to refuse.
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Immediately following the amputation, she's racked with insufferable phantom limb pain. Desperate for relief, she enrolls in an experimental drug trial. But this drug has a peculiar side effect—she develops a psychic connection to her missing limb. She soon discovers that Chicago's long-dormant Phantom Strangler is now wearing her hand and is using it . . . to kill.
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Power (The Ghosts of Thorwald Place) mostly impresses with this propulsive, high-concept Faustian thriller. It's been a year since a Chicago serial killer known as the Phantom Strangler has struck. The city finally believes it might be out of the woods when a woman is strangled shortly after leaving her pastry class one evening. The latest slaying freaks out struggling artist Regan Osbourne, who's just lost her casino job and is trying to shake off her drug dealer ex-boyfriend, Ben. Desperate for rent money, Regan steals $1,200 from the wallet of a stranger she sleeps with one night, only to have the man, Sylvain Dufour, track her down and offer her a devil's bargain: Dufour will pay Regan $1 million and make sure Ben is out of the picture if she agrees to sever her left hand and give it to him. Regan eventually agrees, and experiences debilitating phantom pain where her hand used to be. When the pain subsides, she's suddenly able to sense what her missing hand is doing—and it feels like it might be strangling people. While certain surprises disappoint, Power maintains a breakneck pace, and she sticks the landing. Daniel Palmer fans will enjoy themselves.
