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Jinn : A Novel
Author: Matthew B.J. Delaney

Book Information
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Book Type: Paperback
Rating:
5

ISBN-13: 9780312327057 - ISBN-10: 0312327056
Publication Date: 4/1/2004
Pages: 560


Other Versions of this Book: Hardcover

Book Description:
It is May 1943. On the remote island of Bougainville, in the South Pacific, a squad of United States Marines beats their way through the thick jungle. They’ve landed to do battle with the Japanese soldiers on the island, but in short order, they begin to realize that the forbidding battleground holds an ancient secret a hundred times more terrifying than any enemy army---especially when they start finding the bodies.

Flash-forward to July 2008. In the slums---and the skyscrapers---of Boston, a new kind of depraved serial killer is stalking human prey and terrifying the city. The bodies have been found posed and mutilated in bizarre ways that the two police officers in charge of the case have never seen before---and never want to see again. Are the two scenarios connected?

Detectives Jefferson and Brogan have no idea that to solve the biggest case of their careers, their investigation must take them around the world and through time and history---from a mysterious salvaged submarine with a shocking secret, to an inhumane prison where the inmates are even more scared than usual of “the Pit,”and finally back to the beginning: the sinister island in the South Seas where something inhuman has been biding its time

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Top Member Book Reviews

CM C. (CocoCee) wrote on 12/5/2007...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

It all started out in the jungle with a "thing" killing soldiers, almost like the movie Predator with Arnold. Great atmosphere descriptions, and of the horrors. Then... BAM... we wind up in a city setting and it becomes a crime drama. A reviewer says this novel is like the works of Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston. Wrong. I wish the next reader best of luck trying to read this book all the way through.

Jennifer B. (dragonqueen) wrote on 10/1/2006...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

This book started out as a very good story and it just got stranger and stranger. While I did enjoy the book, I could have wished that the writer had kept the story a little less bizarre.

Victoria W. (VicW) wrote on 6/10/2006...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

I found this story to be very scary.


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