another excellent book by Stephen White!! More twists and turns than a country road!

Carla L. wrote on 4/22/2007...
Good read!
I'm a huge Stphen White fan -- this is another exciting psychologist Alan Gregory mystery

Judy B. (
jdyinva) - Virginia Bch, VA wrote on 4/14/2007...
A page-turner! Really enjoyed it.

Linda B. (
boll) wrote on 1/22/2007...
Great Thriller........... great ending...............
To the FBI, agent Kelda James is a hero. To the cops Tom Close is a killer. But to the man who knows them both best, psychologist Alan Gregory, it's not that simple, because he knows about their hidden fears and about the crime that brought them together.
To the FBI, agent Kelda James is a hero: tough, calm, fearless. To the cops, Tom Clone is a killer: a man who got away with savagely murdering his girlfriend. But to the man who knows them both best, psychologist Alan Gregory, it's not that simple. Because he knows about their hidden fears. About the crime that brought them together. But there are things he doesn't know. Like the secrets they keep. The other players in the shadows. And what is going to happen next...

Melanie P. (
LaceRenee) wrote on 10/25/2006...
To the FBI, agent Kelda James is a hero: tough, calm, fearless. To the cops, Tom Clone is a killer: a man who got away with savagely murdering his girlfriend. But to the man who knows them both best, psychologist Alan Gregory, it's not that simple. Because he knows about their hidden fears. About the crime that brought them together. But there are things he doesn't know. Like the secrets they keep. The other players in the shadows. And what's going to happen next. One book in a series of thirteen. Great mystery series.
My first Stephen White book and I can't wait to read another.
Tom Clone's stay on death row is over, thanks to new evidence uncovered by Kelda James, a young FBI agent whose efforts on Clone's behalf have not exactly endeared her to her colleagues. Referred by that same agent to psychologist Alan Gregory, Clone is struggling to adapt to life outside prison. But others who believe he got off on a technicality don't agree that the former medical student deserves his freedom, and they will go to any lengths to make sure he's punished accordingly for the crime of which he was once accused. There are some surprising plot twists here, but more interesting is Gregory's midlife crisis and his declining interest in his work: as his partner responds when he voices doubts about his efficacy as a therapist, "Those are the bricks we lay. If you've started hating the bricks, maybe it's time to reconsider being a brick layer." Certainly Gregory gets himself into more sinister and frightening scrapes than most shrinks, and this is one of his strangest cases. The Best Revenge is a solid, well-reasoned thriller, set in the marvelously drawn Colorado landscape the author has made his own, with guest appearances by minor figures familiar to readers of this increasingly popular psychological suspense series.
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