I''d never read this British author before. I will now.
Professor Joseph O''Loughlin is a clinical psychologist who has worked with the police in the past and has no plans to do so again in the future. He has, with his family, moved out of London and taken a position as a lecturer at the University of Bath. He has a degenerative neurological disorder. Life in the
country will be better.
Despite his determination to embrace country life and a less stressful career, he unwittingly gets coopted by the local police and dragged to the site of an impending
suicide where he is expected to intervene...successfully.
What follows is a disturbing and nerve jangling journey into the human mind...its intricacies, its vulnerability, its perversion, its disease. The professor
comes to realize that he has more in common with those he has been called upon to study than he would have thought possible. He understands that, in the
face of the
impossible, every mind, no
matter how stable, no matter how secure in itself, is at
risk. in the face of the unimagimable,
we are all at risk.
Robotham''s prose is steady and eminently readable. Occasionally however, he comes out with observations of profound insight and literary beauty. These are what will set him apart as he continues to write.
The story itself is rife with suspense and engrossing in its horror.
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