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Loading... Severed (original 2007; edition 2007)by Simon Kernick
Work detailsSevered by Simon Kernick (2007)
 adpaton | Mar 2, 2009 |  A fast moving thriller a cracking good read (  ) Dessss | Jun 1, 2008 | Like Relentless, Kernick's previous novel I read, this book's speed of plot development keeps you turning the pages until the very end. A good read for a snowy Easter weekend! Good characterisation and authentic London locations keep the interest high as the body count mounts, most to fairly gruesome ends, but then from the opening page when Tyler find himself in bed with the headless corpse of his girlfriend, it comes as no great surprise this should be the case. Probably not one for the squeamish. (  ) edwardsgt | Mar 24, 2008 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0552153133, Mass Market Paperback)A terrifying read-in-one-gulp thriller with a killer premise: what do you do when the woman in bed beside you is a headless corpse . . .Straight off I knew it was going to be a bad day. The room was stifling hot; and when I did finally manage to drag open my eyes, all I could see was blood. I thought I’d stepped into the middle of a nightmare. But I was wrong. The nightmare was only just beginning. Ex-soldier Sean Tyler wakes up in an unfamiliar room next to the headless corpse of a girl he’s met only once. With his memory of the previous twenty-four hours wiped clean, he’s hardly out of bed before the phone rings. A voice tells him to press play on the room’s DVD machine. The film shows him stabbing someone to death. Tyler is confident that the footage is fake, but will a jury see things the same way? The man on the phone tells him to go to an address in east London, and await instructions. Tyler knows he must do as he is told. He also knows that the phone caller has no intention of keeping him alive. To survive he must recover the missing twenty-four hours of his life and find out who’s setting him up before his time runs out for good. The clock is ticking... From the Hardcover edition. (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:55:56 -0500) Ex-soldier Dan Tyler wakes up in an unfamiliar room next to the headless corpse of a girl he's met only once. With his memory of the previous 24 hours wiped clean, he's hardly out of bed before the phone rings. A disguised voice tells him to press play on the room's DVD machine. The film shows him stabbing the girl.… (more) (summary from another edition) |
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Framed for a murder he didn’t commit, when our hero wakes beside the headless body of his girlfriend he has no choice other than to obey directions or be arrested for a murder he didn’t commit: he is led ever-deeper into a tangled web of death and betrayal.
Entrapment, psychological distortion, thrills and cheats, this story, set in 21st century London, has it all. Kernick is a master page-turner and atmospheric chiller writer – read and enjoy. (