The Spire
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- ISBN13: 9780312946395
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Mark Darrow grew up in tiny-town Ohio with no real advantages. But thanks to Lionel Farr, a professor at a nearby college, Darrow became an brilliant scholar/athlete and, later, a superb examination lawyer. Now Farr offers his protégé a job as his alma mater’s new president, which Darrow accepts. But being back on campus opens ancient wounds. Sixteen years ago, on the night of his greatest football triumph, Darrow establish the body of a black female student at the base of the college bell tower, known as the Spire
Darrow’s best friend was charged with the murder, and was sent to prison for life. But Darrow is about to learn that the case against his college friend left crucial questions unanswered. Despite his new obligationsand his deepening attachment to Farr’s gorgeous though troubled daughterDarrow starts an inquiry into the murder and is soon convinced that the real killer is still at large and that his own life is surely at risk.
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i read all of RNP’s books and i’m worried his is the worst one of all of his books, dull tale line and no ral substance
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Football star Mark Darrow receives an powerful erudition to play at Caldwell College in Wayne, Ohio. While there he discovers the corpse of African-American student Angela Hall. The police arrests Mark’s best friend Steve Tillman, who is convicted for murdering the coed.
While Mark goes on to law school and becomes a nationally prominent defense attorney, Steve remains in prison insisting he is innocent. Sixteen years since Angela was murdered, Caldwell College is in deep distress over an embezzlement scandal of a just under a million dollar endowment. Desperate to save the college, Mark’s ex- mentor at the school and current Provost Professor Lionel Farr questions him to return as the school president so that alumni money does not stop. He agrees as a favor for his friend. But, he also looks into the embezzlement that got his predecessor in distress and the homicide that has locked away his best friend. His efforts has some people wanting him stopped anyway they can even murder.
Fascinatingly the suspense is not driven by action, but by how deep Richard North Patterson enables his fans to know Mark; thus everything that he does or occurs to him is enhanced by him seeming like a relative or close friend. His escapades to learn the truth then and now places the hero in danger from a name who wants the facts to remain interred and if necessary inter the amateur sleuth. Fans will delight in SPIRE simply because of the dedicated obstinate Mark, who is The Small Engine That Could (die).
Harriet Klausner
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I knew who the killer was after reading 25% of the book.
1. Steve Tillman could not have done it, otherwise there would be no tale.
2. The obvious suspect never does it.
3. That only leaves one developed character with ties to the main character.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I am a fan of RNP. This tale is about men behaving terribly in war and in American society, which is a recurring theme in all of RNP’s latest novels. I may have to stop reading him because they don’t paint a excellent picture and I want to focus on positive outcomes–for myself and others. RNP is a excellent writer, though. He does his research, weaves a excellent tale (I was surprised by this one, didn’t see it coming) and is accurate. Things are terrible in the world RNP sees and writes about. Another theme in his last three novels is: The unusual, mostly unpopular, like relationship between his super-predictable male protagonist and a super-predictable female. In “Exile” it was between a Jew and a Palestinian; In “The Race” it was between a white and black couple; and here in “The Spire” it is between an older man of power and a troubled, younger woman (in this case they met when he was seventeen and she seven.) In all cases there is an uncertain conclusion. Another quirk of RNP … I counted thirty-eight (38) different words used to clarify the act of smiling … (fun). Do I have to mention that the fantastic majority were not “pleased.”
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
How anyone can characterize this as a excellent book is beyond me. I read about 100 pages and had to give up – I kept falling asleep! Oy, it was all back tale, flash backs and reasonably dull. Nothing happened! If that’s what a psychological thriller is – no thanks. I gave up and went to get a better, quick-paced excellent ancient fashioned mystery.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5