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Search - Red Sky at Night (Thorn, Bk 6) (Large Print)

Red Sky at Night - Thorn, Bk 6 - Large Print
Author: James W. Hall

A dozen dolphins in a Key Largo research center have been tortured and killed. When an outraged Thorn investigates the crime, he is beaten so brutally that he becomes paralyzed from the waist down. After checking himself into a state-of-the-art pain clinic run by a childhood friend, Thorn uncovers some horrific experiments being performed on han... more »dicapped Army veterans which are somehow linked to the disappearance of a female DEA agent. As Thorn finds out that his paralysis is no accident, he also finds himself the unwitting subject of a brutal experiment, in which someone will go to any length to cure his own twisted pain.

In the bestselling tradition of classic crime writers like Elmore Leonard, James W. Hall writes engrossing, intelligent thrillers.

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Hall's hermit-sleuth Thorn has long been one of the most appealing and complex characters in crime fiction, but here he extends his range still further, taking the Travis McGee^-style genre hero to an altogether new level. Ensconced in his Key Largo beach house, Thorn seems to have carved a lasting separate peace with the modern world until a senseless crime drives the other side of his personality to the fore, the side that says, "There's something broken, and I have to fix it." What's broken this time, though, is Thorn himself, mysteriously paralyzed from the waist down after attempting to confront an apparent prowler. The story begins with the slaughter of several dolphins--killed for their endorphins, the key ingredient in a miracle, pain-killing drug--and extends to Thorn's distant past and his relationship with his best childhood friend, who has been nursing a grudge against Thorn for decades. All of Thorn's unresolved conflicts--Is he running away from the world or trying to save it?--come to the fore here, as Hall makes his hero (and the reader) face simultaneously the pain of powerlessness and the selfishness at the heart of a knight errant's gallantry. And yet, we cheer when Thorn sallies forth one more time, wheelchair-bound but determined to draw on the "white knot of gristle at his stubborn core." Melding the magnetic pull of the archetypal hero on a quest with the flesh-and-blood humanity of a vulnerable man trapped between conflicting needs, Hall masterfully works both ends of the genre street, transforming the beach-bum sleuth into an everyman while at the same time allowing readers to wonder if perhaps we, too, might find a stubborn core of our own, if only we plumbed deep enough. Popular fiction at its absolute best. Bill Ott

ISBN-13: 9781585471171
ISBN-10: 1585471178
Publication Date: 7/2001
Pages: 384
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3 stars, based on 1 rating

Publisher: Center Point Large Print
Book Type: Hardcover
Large Print: Yes
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