Fear
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3.3 • 20 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
From New York Times bestselling author Jeff Abbott comes a fast paced thriller that will leave you wondering how far you'll go to forget the worst moment in your life.
Everyone has a memory they'd like to forget. For federal witness Miles Kendrick, it's the shootout that left his best friend dead -- and Miles a hunted and haunted man. While helping his psychiatrist with a mysterious favor, Miles stumbles upon an illegal research program that could free him -- and millions of others with post-traumatic stress disorder--from crippling memories. But when his doctor ends up dead, Miles must run for his life from a murderous conspiracy that gives new meaning to the word "fear."
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Abbott's hypercharged ninth thriller (after 2005's Panic), Miles Kendrick, a former spy for the mob who's now in the federal witness protection program, has built a new if fragile life in Sante Fe, N.Mex. With the aid of Allison Vance, his psychiatrist, Kendrick struggles to overcome post-traumatic stress disorder, which developed after he killed his best friend while assisting the FBI. Kendrick is soon overwhelmed by more feelings of guilt when his shrink is blown up in her office after asking him to help her with a delicate matter. Kendrick later discovers Vance was involved with a new miracle drug touted as curing PTSD. In his search for the drug, which takes a bewildering series of twists and turns, he crosses paths with a number of unsavory characters with various motives. Readers will need to suspend some disbelief as the body count mounts, but few who start this book will stop turning the pages.
Customer Reviews
Very Okay.
The novel was rather average in my opinion. The plot continued and continued until the point where it was no longer redundant, but it began to lose my interest because "surprises," were no longer surprising. I am not very much a fan of the ending, however there were quite a few twists and turns along the way that were very well done. It's evident that Jeff Abbott put a lot of research in to this novel, and details were strikingly consistent. For the $2.00 that I purchased this novel, it was much, much more than worth it. I would have paid up to $15, probably. However having read it, I doubt I will read it again. It would not be the first novel on my list to recommend, however if someone asked me about it, I'd tell them to give it a go.