Dead Aim, and Spot On ... as usual.

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	• Dead Aim: A Novel Thomas Perry Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 25 reviews view larger image
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DEAD AIM Slightly Off Target

"Dead Aim" sets up an interesting situation: A man, Mallon, saves a young woman from committing suicide, which she eventually does anyway. He then gets sucked deeper into her life and its aftermath than he ever intended. The story starts off well, but eventually becomes implausible beyond belief. But even with that, I was willing to along for the ride. My biggest problem with it was the fact that we so often leave the main character behind to focus on those who are after him. A little of this would be fine to enhance the feeling of peril for Mallon. But way too much time is spent on these people and way too little time is spent on Mallon and his attempts to extricate himself from the tangled web in which he finds himself.

Also implausible is the fact that just about everyone that Mallon comes across in the story, including people he's known for years, are tied into the bad guys. That truly stretches our willingness to buy into the story.

And then there's the ending. Instead of satisfying it simply boils down to a standard shootout.

Still, with all these issues, I kept reading to the end. Part of it was that I kept hoping it would get a little better. But part was that I was simply interested to see how Mallon would get out himself out of the mess. And though the end was less than satisfying, I would still be willing to give Thomas Perry at least one other chance.

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Great book

It seems that I'm always at odds with general population. If everyone likes something its a sure sign that I won't. Contrary to the lukewarm reviews, this is a very suspensful book. The ending was rather unbelivable for my taste but still this was hard to put down.(well, at least for me).

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Dead Aim, and Spot On ... as usual.

My Holy Trinity is Thomas Perry, Sue Grafton, and Dick Francis. (And for pure charm, the Laurie R. King's Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell books.)

Thomas Perry, writing his fast-paced, twisty-turny mystery books, seems never to miss the mark. I always groan when I find another one, as it means I won't get any sleep that night. It's a real problem.

Dead Aim keeps driving forward. Thomas Perry is especially interesting in that in some books he goes into the psyche of some truly bad guys. And the scary thing is ... we go right along with him. This is one of those books, and both the good guy and the bad guy are, as usual, fascinating.

I personally hope Thomas Perry lives to be 128, and writes until the day he drops. No mercy for Thomas Perry.

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Exciting

The reviewers who said that this thriller is substandard for Perry are right. The book's villains are so inept that they reminded me of the Alec Guinness movie "The Ladykillers." Of course, this book lacks the humor of ''The Ladykillers." Instead, the villains are strikingly ruthless. My recommendation is to try some of Perry's other books.

Definitely sub-standard Perry

I am a big Perry fan. I loved Butcher's Boy, Sleeping Dogs, the Jane Whitefield series, and Pursuit. I was not so crazy about Death Benefits. In fact, I can barely remember the plot.

This one has to be the worst. The plot was too incredible, the hero was too boring, and there was no investigation to speak of by either the police or the hero. The most unbelievable thing was how kick-ass the hero was, even though Perry gave no rationale for why this was so.

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?Perry succeeds with Dead Aim on all fronts. It?s both chilling and absorbing, the right mix in a thriller.?
?New York Daily News

Robert Mallon has lived for ten quiet years in affluent Santa Barbara, California, when an encounter on a beach with a mysterious young woman shatters his peaceful, carefully constructed life. Despite Mallon?s desperate attempts, he loses her, and becomes obsessed with discovering why. He hires detective Lydia Marks to uncover the secrets of this stranger?s life, and what they learn propels them into a terrifying world of sinister secrets and deadly hatreds. Targeting Mallon is the master hunter Parish, a man with an expert understanding of evil, who preys on rich people?s desires for dominance and revenge. Mallon is drawn into a lethal struggle with this deadly adversary?and then another, and another, and another.

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