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(3.42) | 5 | Newcomer Craig Holden, one of the new generation of outstanding contemporary fiction writers, delivers a riveting novel set in the stark, bleak plains of the Midwest -- the Midwest of strip malls and dilapidated, long-abandoned steel mills. The Midwest of Morgantown General Hospital in southern Michigan. When a burn victim is brought into the ER, a young doctor's life is changed irrevocably. For the arrival of John Doe is just the beginning of a nightmare that will hurtle Dr. Adrian Lancaster into the netherworld of violence and obsession that once nearly destroyed him. Suddenly Lancaster finds himself the prime suspect in a string of murders. Shadowed by police and seeking refuge in the arms of a mysterious young woman, Lancaster risks his career and his life to follow the body-strewn trail that could lead him to the murderer. On the road and underground, only facing the terrifying truth will save him. A brilliant novel that hits hard from page one, The River Sorrow moves us, haunts us... and holds us spellbound until the final unforgettable scene. From the Paperback edition.… (more) |
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I see that man going back down with a heavy yet measured step towards the torment of which he will never know the end. That hour, like a breathing space which returns as surely as his suffering, that is the hour of consciousness ...
~ Albert Camus  When I got you gotta get it put in you.
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Like some mythical dragon a helicopter screams down out of the night, its spotlights illuminating the white cross on the asphalt landing pad and blinding those on the ground. | |
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None ▾Book descriptions Newcomer Craig Holden, one of the new generation of outstanding contemporary fiction writers, delivers a riveting novel set in the stark, bleak plains of the Midwest -- the Midwest of strip malls and dilapidated, long-abandoned steel mills. The Midwest of Morgantown General Hospital in southern Michigan. When a burn victim is brought into the ER, a young doctor's life is changed irrevocably. For the arrival of John Doe is just the beginning of a nightmare that will hurtle Dr. Adrian Lancaster into the netherworld of violence and obsession that once nearly destroyed him. Suddenly Lancaster finds himself the prime suspect in a string of murders. Shadowed by police and seeking refuge in the arms of a mysterious young woman, Lancaster risks his career and his life to follow the body-strewn trail that could lead him to the murderer. On the road and underground, only facing the terrifying truth will save him. A brilliant novel that hits hard from page one, The River Sorrow moves us, haunts us... and holds us spellbound until the final unforgettable scene. From the Paperback edition. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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A pony-tailed doctor tries to sleep in the walk-in clinic of a small mid-western city - and forget the image of a burn victim he treated earlier in the day. Bu for Dr Adrian Lancaster there will be no rest. Not tonight. Not tomorrow. The killing has begun. As a medical student, Lancaster shared a dusty college apartment with a woman who shared her desire wiht a white powder. He lost everything, then slowly won it back again. Now his past floods back before his eyes - in a man's seared flesh, in the arms of a mysterious young woman, in the probing questions of a good cop who caught a bad break and suspects Lancaster is not who he seems. Suddenly Lancaster has no choice but to run - into the arms of his weakness and disgrace, into the past that almost destroyed him, into a corrupt and deadly plot that flows like a river of tears .... --------------------------------------------- | |
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