Second Sight
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- ¥150
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An acclaimed investigative journalist, Marlie Kaplan, is headed for stardom until an undercover story she is working on goes horribly wrong, killing one of her colleagues and leaving Marlie blind. Through experimental surgery she miraculously gets back partial vision -- and something more. Now she can also see weird, unexplainable things, things beyond what's visible with the naked eye.
Eager to jump-start her career, Marlie lands an important exclusive interview and uses it as leverage to get her old job back. Then the unthinkable happens: a colleague is murdered and Marlie's the only witness. But the only thing she saw clearly was the colored cloud surrounding both the victim and the killer, the same colored clouds she now sees around everyone she meets. Those clouds may be the very clue she needs to find the killer, but only if he doesn't find her first.
What began as a promising new start to her life and career suddenly dissolves into a terrifying web of deception and death, a nightmare from which there is only one escape -- if Marlie can see it in time.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
After having been blinded in an explosion, TV journalist Marlie Kaplan is implanted with an experimental computer chip that allows her to see an energy field (the color ranges from evil black to passionate red) that surrounds everyone and reveals their hidden emotions. When Marlie happens upon a grisly murder, she realizes that the crime could have been committed by any of the three men in her life (an antagonistic detective, a sneering ex-husband and a charming would-be governor) and is forced to rely on her extra sense to find the guilty party. Writing from inside Marlie's mind, Amos (Cold White Fury) ably shows Marlie's attitude develop from an understandable after-surgery bitchiness to the focused thoughtfulness required of a reporter. Many readers will appreciate such exposition, but it may discourage those who like their mysteries with a little less introspection.
