L.A. Mental
A Thriller
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- 13,99 €
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- 13,99 €
Description de l’éditeur
“As much a mind game as it is thriller, a scientific puzzle buried in a murder mystery, all set against the surreal world of Hollywood filmmaking. . . . I can’t wait for the next book!”—James Rollins
Acclaimed mystery writer Neil McMahon, coauthor of the James Patterson thriller Toys, delivers a fast-paced psychological thriller from the heart of a city gone insane: America’s myth-making capital, Los Angeles, has become a bedlam of murder, drugs, conspiracy, and obsession, and only one man has the power to put things right. Fans of science-tinged suspense from authors like Patrick Lee, William Gibson, and Greg Bear, will thrill for L.A. Mental’s taught, high-stakes story of one man’s accidental immersion in an underworld he never knew existed—one which will require every last reserve of his intelligence, ruthlessness, and cunning to escape.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
McMahon's stellar stand-alone offers a cunning technological twist worthy of the late Michael Crichton. In an ominous prologue, articles from three L.A. newspapers recount bizarre incidents: a judge goes berserk and does extensive damage to his Santa Monica house; a celebrity heiress accused of her elderly husband's murder is found in a coma in the pool of her Beverly Hills condo; and a gifted CalTech grad student apparently commits suicide by running onto a freeway. Later, druggie Nick Crandall attacks his psychologist brother, Tom, in their old family home in Malibu after complaining that worms are eating his brain. Tom manages to save his brother's life after Nick falls off a cliff, but the mystery only deepens when their sister, Rikki, reveals that she's being threatened. All of this may somehow be connected with a brilliant physicist-turned-moviemaker, who's using another Crandall property to film his next feature. McMahon (Dead Silver) easily makes a science fiction concept plausible in a pulse-pounding read that doesn't sacrifice intelligence for thrills.
