Dead Sleep
by Greg Iles
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Author: Greg IlesEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-07-01
ISBN: 0451206525
Number of pages: 496
Publisher: Signet
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- ISBN13: 9780451206527
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Dead Sleep
Book Review: Man, is it me, or can Greg Iles REALLY write?
Summary: 5 Stars
Ever since he hit the scene many years ago with Spandau Phoenix, I have followed Greg Iles' amazing career with a great deal of interest. I don't know of any author currently working that can hold a candle to his sheer talent for writing in such a wide variety of genre's. So far he has tackled historical thriller, legal thriller, supernatural, murder/mystery and straight-on action/adventure thriller. What genuinely sets Mr. Iles apart is that not only has he written these many styles, but he quite literally COMMANDS each genre that he writes. I know of NO living author who has made such a wide attempt at writing, and certainly nobody who has ever managed to do it so incredibly well.
His stories rarely take long to unfold. They grab you almost from the first page with the lyrical prose of some of the all-time greats. There is simply just a very addicting way which Greg Iles writes that draws you in and quick. Dead Sleep is yet another one of his amazing plots that is virtually mesmerizing. The idea of a painter who uses Real dead women as subjects of paintings is facinating enough, but add to that the twist of Jordan Glass suddenly seeing her OWN face on one of the paintings -- or rather that of her missing and presumed dead twin sister is enough to force me to read on and on. That scene in this book is alone worth the price. The breakneck pace that follows is enough to keep you entranced in this tale. But as others have noted, while reading a Greg Iles book, there is just something almost intangible in the way he writes that virtually compells you to read further, almost desperately in the sheer need to finish the story once you've started. VERY few authors have EVER been able to pull that off (Phillip Margolin's Gone, But Not Forgotten is another).
I could go deeper into the plot, but you probably already know what the basic storyline is, so I won't bother you with going over what you have picked up thus far. What I wanted to bring up is just how satisfying a Greg Iles book can help you feel, especially if you are a voracious reader like me. I am certain you have read your fair share of novels that lacked decent resolutions or character development or just something that made you less than happy with the end results. What truly sets this author apart is his uncanny ability to pull off the whole package, making you quite satisfied with almost every part of his stories, and almost forces you to come back to read all his other books. Now is MY experience the same for everyone who reads Greg Iles? Obviously not. There have been some reviews of some of his novels that were downright insulting to anyone who even remotely found his books entertaining. I have always found it interesting that the books that have traditionally been viewed as 'Classics' and 'Great Literature' have been by and large pure drivel as far as I am concerned. Why? I don't know exactly. All I know is Greg writes the kind of books I really enjoy reading and he makes me look forward to what else he is planning on doing. What more can a reader ask for?
Summary of Dead Sleep
They are called "The Sleeping Women." A series of unsettling paintings in which the nude female subjects appear to be not asleep, but dead. Photojournalist Jordan Glass has another reason to find the paintings disturbing...The face on one of the nudes is her own-or perhaps the face of her twin sister, who disappeared and is still missing. At the urging of the FBI, Jordan becomes both hunter and hunted in a search for the anonymous artist-an obsessed killer who seems to know more about Jordan and her family than she is prepared to face..."Hair-raising...Iles continues to scare the living daylights out of readers." (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
Greg Iles lives up to the promise of his previous bestseller, 24 Hours, with a new thriller that showcases his ability to deliver top-level suspense as well as multidimensional characterization. When Jordan Glass, a world-renowned photojournalist, happens on an exhibit of a series of paintings known as "The Sleeping Women," she is stunned to discover that one of the models--a nude who, like the other women in the paintings, looks dead rather than asleep--is her mirror image. But Jordan knows the face in the painting isn't her; it's her twin sister, Jane, who disappeared from her New Orleans home more than a year ago, and is presumed to have been murdered by a serial killer who's been snatching women off the streets of the Crescent City for at least that long. None of the bodies of the missing women have turned up, but their faces match the models in the other Sleeping Women paintings. A veteran FBI agent named John Kaiser brings Jordan into the Bureau's hunt for the anonymous artist, who may also know something about the disappearance of Jordan's father in Vietnam almost 30 years before.
This is a taut, well-crafted thriller with a nice secondary love story that's woven into the action without slowing it down. Jordan is a fascinating, many-sided character who's a little too tough to be wholly believable, but that's a minor quibble. While winning well-deserved new fans for Iles, Dead Sleep will keep his readers awake until the very last page. --Jane Adams
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