he Has Chosen To Die And Signed A Contract With The Right People To Make It Happen. Everything Will Go As Planned, Even If He Changes His Mind. Which He Has. And All He Can Do Now Is Keep Looking Over His Shoulder.
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bestseller White (missing Persons) Takes An Endlessly Debatable Question-at What Point Would A Decline In Your Quality Of Life Cause You To Want To End Your Life?-and Leverages It Into A Clever, Absorbing Thriller. The Anonymous Narrator Is In His Prime, A Happily Married Father Of A Young Girl Given To High-risk Sports. An Assortment Of Grim Fates And A Near-escape Of His Own Make Him Consider The Question. A Shadowy Group Called Death Angel Inc. Contracts To Guarantee That If The Life Of The Insured Should Reach A Certain Agreed-upon Level, They Will Terminate That Life. Fascinated And Impressed By The Death Angels' Knowledge And Reach, He Eventually Negotiates Terms With Them. This Faustian Bargain Doesn't Take Long To Reveal Its Dark Side, And White Pays Almost Equal Attention To The Philosophical And The Physical As His Hero Has To Both Approach The Conditions That Would Trigger His Contract's Death Clause Yet Remain Healthy Enough To Fight Back. Some Finely Scripted Action Scenes Build To A Telegraphed Ending That Weakens The Book Only Slightly. (mar.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Categories:
- Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
- Thrillers & Suspense
- Crime
- Thrillers & Suspense
Publisher : Berkley
Author : White, Stephen
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2007-03-06
Number Of Pages : 512
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0451220714
ISBN-13 : 9780451220714
Item weight : 0.7 lb
Dimensions : 1.5 in x 4 in x 7.5 in
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