The Survivors Club
by Lisa Gardner
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Author: Lisa GardnerEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-04-29
ISBN: 0553584510
Number of pages: 512
Publisher: Bantam
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Book Review: Pleasantly surprised
Summary: 4 Stars
If pressed on the matter, I would have to characterize this book as an action-adventure crime novel rather than the typical adventure-romance such as one would expect from a lady writer. I was a little surprised that there was no heavy breathing between the two main "good guy" characters, Roan and Jillian. Not a bodice was ripped, merely exchanges of pregnant looks, supportive touching, and intelligent, emotional byplay, a refreshing approach for which Gardner gets high marks.
Gardner seems to have a good feel for characterizations, for example a villain with a touch of Hannibal Lecterism and a group of (beautiful, naturally) women rape victims who are more complex than one would estimate at first glance, with deeper agendas than merely revenge and finding Donna Karen suits on sale at half price. The protagonist, Roan Griffin, immediately reminded me of Wick, the hero in The Crush by Sandra Brown, lean-waisted, blue-eyed, super-muscular, a manly man with a tragic past, but handicapped by a hot temper- well, you get the idea. One would almost welcome an occasional balding, fat and bespectacled hero named Wally or George in a novel now and then, but lady writers surely know what their target market wants.
I found I enjoyed this book more than expected even though the plot was a bit trite in some regards and had a couple of major logistical holes in it, but overall was quite well organized. Gardner has a good handle on keeping the reader's interest with continuity of action, refusing to get bogged down in redundancy to make a point clear to those with the dullest perceptions, nor was there endless emotional venting dialogue between female characters harping on some cause de jour in which the author might be involved. Nothing irritates me more as a reader than to be repeatedly hit over the head with some author's pet obsession, whether it be abortion rights, saving whales, hanging chads or breast implants. Gardner, on the other hand, exhibits some exciting and creative wordsmithing in the course of the novel that makes one feel eager to pursue the next chapter, a sign of superior imagination and productive editing. I found only a couple of very minor flaws in Gardner's research, and in reading the "Acknowledgments" I figured out from whence they came. The boys with the badges were having a bit of fun with her, as it were, informing her that professional sniper/assassin would choose to utilize a variable-scoped semi-automatic "Winchester-Remington .223-caliber" AR15 assault rifle for a single blind pop-up snap shot at a mere seventy feet, and I suppose the perpetrators of that little joke knew any shooting enthusiast who read that would get a good chuckle. Logically, of course, very few pro snipers will ever read this book They'll be reading Guns N'Ammo while cleaning their bolt-action Model 70's or Dragunovs. But all the kidding aside, this is a very well-done novel of this type and well worth reading for its entertainment value. I hope Gardner continues to write in this vein, for I am now one of her supporters.
-Barker Reviews
Summary of The Survivors Club
One of today?s most electrifying suspense novelists, New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner returns with a shattering thriller that dares to play on our deepest vulnerabilities. In this masterful new novel, the killer may very well be the one you sympathize with the most....THE FIRST RULE IS NEVER BLAME THE VICTIM.
They survived what no woman should ever have to endure. Now these three women have the means, the opportunity, and the perfect motive. Are they trying to get away with murder--or is someone trying to make sure that this time they don?t get away at all? The Survivors Club. . .that?s what Jillian Hayes, Carol Rosen, and Meg Pesaturo call it. They won?t consider themselves victims. They are survivors. They faced the blazing headlines and helped lead the investigation that caught the man who changed their lives forever.
And now that Eddie Como, the College Hill rapist, has been murdered, shot down outside a packed courthouse moments before his trial was about to begin, all three women are openly ecstatic that he?s dead. They are also the prime suspects in his murder. Detective Sergeant Roan Griffin knows all too well what can drive even the best people to cross the line. But he has never seen a case quite like this one. No one doubts that the murder of Eddie Como was a professional job, especially when the gunman is killed only blocks away from the shooting.
But questions taunt Griffin: Who ordered the deaths of Eddie Como and his killer? Could three ordinary women have been driven to do he unthinkable? Had someone in the Survivors Club become a killer? Griffin seeks the truth--and finds himself confronted with the leader of the Survivors Club. Jillian Hayes is beautiful, successful, cool as ice, and she harbors a pain that mirrors Griffin?s own. Did the horror of what happened to her push her over the thin and desperate line that separates survival and revenge? And if it did, could he blame her--or anyone in the Survivors Club? Then another woman is brutally attacked.
Suddenly, with the city on the ragged edge of panic, gripped in a media and political firestorm of controversy, cover-up, and conspiracy, the hunt is on for a ruthless and cunning killer. For Griffin, this may well be the case that shatters his career. For Jillian, the harrowing nightmare is beginning all over again. Someone is out there. Someone who wants to finish what was started. Someone who wants to make sure that no one survives the Survivors Club.
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