Dead Sleep
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- ISBN13: 9780451206527
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
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 tree than she is prepared to face…
“Hair-raising…Iles continues to scare the living daylights out of readers.” (New Orleans Times-Picayune)Amazon.com Review
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 learn that one of the models–a nude who, like the additional 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 additional 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 nearly 30 years before.
This is a taut, well-crafted thriller with a nice secondary like tale that’s natural fiber into the action lacking slowing it down. Jordan is a fascinating, many-sided character who’s a small 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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After reading his previous books which are geat mysteries, this has disappointed momentously. Wierd is not descriptive enough. A person’s soul jumping from body to body nearly at will is wierd, ubelievable and not an appealing theme for readers of his previous fantastic books. I would reflect thrice before buying any more of his books.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is the first time I have read a Greg Iles novel and it will be the last one I read of his. Don’t get me incorrect it was an appealing thought but I felt it fell apart towards the end. To me it finished up being just silly.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I became a Greg Iles fan after reading THE QUIET GAME and was really looking forwards to his latest offering.
I read DEAD SLEEP in one sitting, but not because I was riveted to the chair….I kept reading because I wanted to find something to like.
The tale centers around Jordan Glass, an award-winning photojournalist who’s burned out, used up and looking for some meaning to her life. She has never recovered from the loss of her father (also a photojournalist killed during the Viet Nam Conflict) and she’s only recently had to deal with the disappearance of her twin sister Jane.
After one of her friends insists on her seeing an exhibit of Chinese watercolors said to capture the pure essence of scenery, Jordan hops on a plane to Hong Kong. At the exhibit, not only does she see the watercolors, she stumbles upon the work of an anonymous artist who paits women in various stages of sleep (or is it death)….and finds herself staring into the eyes of her missing sister.
From there, to plot thickens, but never gels….at least not to me. I’m not sure what Iles was trying to accomplish (additional than to make a villan in the image of the wicked Hannibal), but it didn’t work for me.
I wish Iles would stick to what he does so well…writing about the South and its rich characters. Flitting from Hong Kong, to DC, to New York and thereabouts didn’t make for appealing reading.
Iles is better than this.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I establish the book to be very gruesome, the main characters not developed at all, except to say she is 40 – if he said that once, he said it 25 times – and the whole plot eccentric. The woman only had to reflect something, and it happened..yeah, like the FBI will let a name else do their thinking. All in all, I was very disappointed, to place it mildly!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Ok, I am a huge fan of action/thriller/suspense novels. I opened this one thinking it would be excellent. I’m one of persons people that gives every book a chance. So i ongoing reading this and i couldnt even get to page 100. I was falling asleep. And i was also annoyed. I didnt like the Jordan Glass character at all. She tries to pull off this tough, stark persona, and she pretends that she doesnt reflect she’s attractive. Ii’m aware that she is attractive from the beginning, but it keeps going on about it.
And she has this habit of thinking that every man she meets is going to make a pass at her. Even when he’s not building a pass, she thinks he is. I was just so fed up with this character that I clogged the book and place it on my bookshelf for decorative reasons. Hey, its a nice looking book, you know? why not. anyways, i guess I’m looking for something a small more tough and a small more thrilling.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5