Bad Men: A Thriller by John Connolly
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Book Summary Author: John Connolly Edition: Mass Market Paperback Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 2005-04-26 ISBN: 0743487850 Number of pages: 480 Publisher: Pocket |
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Book Reviews of the Bad Men: A Thriller
Customer Review: Trouble is Coming, but Something is Ready and Waiting
Summary: 5 Stars
Three hundred years ago, white settlers found themselves forced by hostile Indians to flee the mainland and make their home on the inhospitable but unpopulated island they called Sanctuary. They forced one of their own to leave, a vengeful, violent man, who returned to massacre most of the colony. The violence left a mark on the land, if there wasn't something there already. The descendents of those left behind still live on Sanctuary. Today Sanctuary is a calm, peaceful place called Dutch Island, policed by a solitary local cop, a melancholy giant named Joe Dupree, who is over seven feet tall, and one police officer borrowed from the mainland (or Maineland), a probationary rookie, Sharon Macy. Macy doesn't know very much of the island's violent past, Dupree knows all its secrets and its entire haunted history.
The story really centers on Marianne Elliot and her young son Danny, who have settled into life on the island. As Marianne becomes drawn to Dupree, secrets from her past start to come out. She'd been married to a monster of a man named Edward Moloch, who treated her cruelly, so before he had a chance to kill her, she dropped a dime on him, took his money and disappeared to Dutch Island.
Needless to say, Moloch is going to want revenge and when his hand picked team of rapist, murderers, deviants and child abusers breaks him out of jail, he sees his chance. And about this time many of the islanders start seeing visions, paintings showing figures from the past, strange moths appearing in the evenings and people start to dream of ghosts. There is something bad brewing on the island and Melancholy Joe knows it.
Working their way through Marianne's friends, relatives and contacts, they leave a chilling trail of depravity, death and mutilation. The emotionless assassin Shepherd is bad enough, but hot-tempered Tell has a hair-trigger and kills unnecessarily, while the awesomely gorgeous, young Willard does it slowly. Even Moloch, who coldly dominates this awful crew, is unnerved by him.
When they reach Sanctuary, a freak snowstorm rages, power and communications fail, and the locals who stand between the hitmen and Marianne are easy prey. And one would think the gentle giant Joe Dupree and his female rookie would be easy to kill, but something else, as we know from Moloch's own dreams, is waiting.
This book wasn't a bit like I thought it was going to be, not like the John Connolly I was used to. But I must say, I was captivated, enthralled, enraptured, scared, frightened and terrified all at the same time. And I loved it. What a surprise. What a masterpiece. The second I finished it, I started over. I hardly ever do that.