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Rage

By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
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Publisher's summary

In a host of consecutive best sellers, Jonathan Kellerman has kept readers spellbound with the intense, psychologically acute adventures of Dr. Alex Delaware. Rage offers a powerful new case in point, as Delaware and LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis revisit a horrifying crime from the past that has taken on shocking and deadly new dimensions.

Troy Turner and Rand Duchay were barely teenagers when they kidnapped and murdered a younger child. Troy, a remorseless sociopath, died violently behind bars. But the hulking, slow-witted Rand managed to survive his stretch. Now, at age 21, he's emerged a haunted, rootless young man with a pressing need: to talk, once again, with psychologist Alex Delaware. But when the young killer comes to a brutal end, that conversation is silenced forever.

As Delaware and Sturgis retrace their steps through a grisly murder case that devastated a community, they discover a chilling legacy of madness, suicide, and multiple killings left in its wake, and even uglier truths waiting to be unearthed. And the nearer they come to understanding an unspeakable crime, the more harrowingly close they get to unmasking a monster hiding in plain sight.

Rage finds Jonathan Kellerman in phenomenal form, orchestrating a relentlessly suspenseful, devilishly unpredictable plot to a finale as stunning and thought-provoking as it is satisfying.

©2005 Jonathan Kellerman (P)2005 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a divsion of Random House, Inc.

Critic reviews

  • 2005 Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award, Mystery/Thriller

"An impressive piece of detection, and readers who enjoy watching the delicate untangling of a Gordian knot-like plot will find this one a winner." (Publishers Weekly)

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Rage is

I'm somewhat tepid on this book......I found my mind wandering when I had to listen to the long drawn out descriptive conversations between Delaware and Milo. I hung on for the ending and it was a disappointment at best. This isn't Kellermans best.

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Please, Dr. Kellerman . . .

Please, Dr. Kellerman, stop, pause, get your writing steam back before attacking your next book. Rage was pitiful. The entire story takes place in the first quarter of the book. Then it is talk, talk, talk. I have read here that this talk cleverly reveals two bright criminologists, Alex and Milo, working their way to a solution of the case. Sorry, but no!

Three quarters of the book is little more than repetitive conversations going over and over and over the minimal facts that actually exist in this tissue-thin plot.

And then Dr. Kellerman's editor called just before his dinner reservation was coming up, so -- he ended the book.

Thank God for John Rubenstein and his magnificent reading. Almost as great a master, in his own way, as his dad.

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