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Night in the California desert: John Barron---the youngest cop on the LAPD's feared 5-2 squad---will get a baptism of blood and fire on a night he will never forget.
Panic on the streets of LA: An international hit man no one can stop---not the governments he threatens, not the prisons that try to hold him, not LA's bloodiest rogue cops.
Rebecca Barron, John's ravishingly beautiful sister: A night of traumatic terror has left her tragically mute. Now, trapped in a web of global intrigue---and pursued by the same sinister hit man menacing institutions of power worldwide---she will find the shocking violence that robbed her of her speech was only the beginning of a far darker odyssey.
A world-famous baroness---as sensuous as she is singularly cruel---will stop at nothing to fulfill her own maniacal dream, one destined to topple governments and dethrone dynasties, catapulting her to the pinnacle of global power . . . while the world holds its breath and waits.
- Sales Rank: #1397430 in Books
- Brand: Forge Books
- Published on: 2004-08-17
- Released on: 2004-08-12
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.60" h x 1.86" w x 6.40" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 704 pages
- Great product!
From Booklist
Folsom, the author of the thrilling Day after Tomorrow (1994), which has no connection to the recent movie, and the decidedly less thrilling Day of Confession (1998), returns mostly to form in this fast-paced, exciting adventure. John Barron, a young LAPD detective, assists in the capture of a vicious killer, who dies during surgery following a gunfight. But some of his fellow cops are also killed in the process, and Barron is forced to leave the department, and the country, to avoid retribution from his former colleagues and friends. He assumes a new identity, moves to Europe, meets a nice lady--and then is confronted with the terrifying prospect that the villain who supposedly died in L.A. is not dead after all and is moving forward with his original plan. Written in short chapters, with a sturdy hero and a despicably clever villain, the novel grabs readers from the opening scenes and rarely lets them loose. Although it seems as though the author has written the book with an eye toward a future movie adaptation--short chapters, plenty of physical action, a constant reminder of the date and time, some scenes even written from an audience's point of view ("The viewer realized that somewhere out there was Raymond")--it isn't an outline posing as a novel. Sure, it's slick and a bit superficial, but it does what it sets out to do: deliver breathless excitement. David Pitt
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"A heart-thumping, stay-up-late novel . . . Wild, unputdownable . . . Brilliant."
---Los Angeles Times Book Review on The Day AfterTomorrow
"Once you start The Exile, forget sleep. Its fierce, complex suspense is fast as a 9mm slug and tight as a hangman's noose."
---Stephen Coonts
"More twists and turns than a strand of DNA."---William Peter Blatty, bestselling author of The Exorcist, on The Exile
"Hold on tight---from the first scene Folsom spins a tale of page-turning suspense."
---W. E. B. Griffin on The Exile
"You only have to read the explosive opening to know you're in the hands of a natural storyteller."---Andrew Klavan on The Exile
"A chilling jigsaw puzzle . . . This thriller doesn't leap out of the starting gate---it's catapulted."---Cleveland Plain Dealer on The Day After Tomorrow
"Folsom is an enthusiastic storyteller with a talent for vivid characterization on a big canvas."
---Chicago Tribune on Day of Confession
"Once you start The Exile, forget sleep. Its fierce, complex suspense is fast as a 9mm slug and tight as a hangman's noose." (Stephen Coonts)
"Hold on tight---from the first scene Folsom spins a tale of page-turning suspense." (W.E.B. Griffin)
"More twists and turns than a strand of DNA." (William Peter Blatty Bestselling author of The Exorcist)
"You only have to read the explosive opening to know you're in the hands of a natural storyteller." (Andrew Klavan Two-time Edgar Award winning author of True Crime and Don't Say a Word)
About the Author
ALLAN FOLSOM is the New York Times bestselling author of The Day After Tomorrow and The Day of Confession. He lives in California.
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27 of 30 people found the following review helpful.
A Good Writer Who Is Not Controversial Enough
By Timothy Haugh
There was a lot of buzz when Mr. Folsom's first book, The Day After Tomorrow, was published some years ago. Though Mr. Folsom's work has never had the success of Dan Brown's, he works a lot of the same territory--thrillers with a "conspiracy theory" subtext. The Exile is another good example of the genre.
This novel, however, will unlikely have the success of The DaVinci Code. In some ways Mr. Folsom is a better writer. He certainly writes a better chase sequence--the opening 60 pages of this novel are as exciting as any I've read with an excellent red herring, slight-of-hand result. But successful novels like this are often helped by controversy and Mr. Folsom isn't likely to generate much here.
Though I find The Exile to be in many ways as controversial as The DaVinci Code, the choice of target makes all the difference. Mr. Brown has religion and the Catholic Church, whose adherents were quick to jump at the publication of the novel. It is the LAPD that receives the biggest slap from Mr. Folsom--incompetence and killing squads anyone?--but it is unlikely that anyone will feel it important to stand up for the police. In some ways, I think that's too bad; and telling about the state of the American psyche.
And, of course, there is the fact that Mr. Folsom's conspiracy centers around a surviving Romanov dynasty trying to come back to power in Russia. Something that's not like to generate that much interest to an American reader despite the fact that the Romanov's seem "hot" right now.
Still, all in all, The Exile is a good read. Mr. Folsom is an excellent writer who does generate a lot of excitement and a pair of excellent characters in John Barron & Raymond Thorne. Yes, the later parts of the book do get a bit predictable and he dips into the chase scene well a little too often and, in my opinion, he would have a better novel if he would have ended the novel halfway down page 701 instead of wrapping it up rather tritely. These are small complaints, however. Readers who enjoy thrillers will enjoy this one.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
gritty, grimy and great
By Lynn Harnett
The second in Glasgow author Denise Mina's projected trilogy ("Garnethill" won the John Creasey Award), "Exile" again features the driven, hard-drinking, damaged Maureen O'Donnell and the grimmer, grimier precincts of Glasgow.
The story concerns the murder of Ann Harris, a battered alcoholic who briefly resided at the women's shelter where Maureen reluctantly works. Agreeing to help her best friend, Maureen looks in on Harris' harassed husband, one of life's ..., who is, however, touchingly devoted to his four "weans." When Harris' body turns up in London, Jimmy goes to the top of the suspects list.
Partly to escape her own haunting problems - her sexually abusive father has returned to Glasgow and his proximity fills her with dread - Maureen goes to London when Ann's body surfaces there. She traces Ann's movements among the drug and alcohol addicted, and the violent traffickers in human weakness. The suspense builds as Maureen slowly gathers the pieces of Ann's messy life, crossing paths and swords with prey and predator.
The story is absorbing, gritty and well organized, the pace wonderfully irregular. But the heart of this novel is Mina's writing, her visceral evocations of people and place. Maureen is a complex knot of longings, intellect, fearlessness and terror. Nothing is simple.
Maureen's reaction to clueless, ... Jimmy: "He tried to smile at her, sliding his lips back, but his face was too tired to pull it off. He had threateningly sharp teeth, which slanted backwards into his mouth. They looked like a vicious little carnivore's, naturally selected because they slid deeper into the flesh when the victim resisted."
And this is the man she decides to champion. Maureen is no trusting soul. But she does yearn. After a fight with her boyfriend: "She wanted a nice boyfriend, she wanted kindness and respect and decency. She didn't want to spend her life with people she was suited to, she wanted to be with people like him."
Mina's prose is muscled, sometimes prickly and vulnerable, sometimes picturesquely hard-boiled: "The morning dragged by like a stranger's funeral." And always painterly: "The wind took on a shrill new viguor at the bus station, hurtling down the low streets, converging in the waiting area in front of the ticket building."
Though Mina's depiction of Glasgow is raw and dark, her heroine's rough edges protect a core of strength and her youthful vitality pumps out glimmers of hope. Denise Mina is a rare find.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Flawed but entertaining
By mrliteral
On a train heading from Barstow to Los Angeles, a vicious killer named Raymond Thorne notices several plainclothes cops in his passenger car. Have they somehow caught up with him? No, because coincidentally, there is another killer on the same train, and when the police converge on him, Raymond winds up being a hostage. Although not the original target of the police, he soon becomes entangled with them and will need to go on a homicidal rampage to escape their grasp.
One of the cops on the train is John Barron, newest member of the elite 5-2 Squad, which he will soon find out is actually an execution squad, bypassing the judicial system to execute the worst criminals. Barron is not pleased to find out that this is the squad's purpose, but he is locked in, dealing with the moral dilemmas even as he helps pursue Thorne.
The first part of The Exile is almost nonstop action. Things don't start to slow down until the middle third of the book, at which time we start learning about Thorne's agenda. He is no ordinary psychopath, but is acting on a plan that could lead him to a position of real power. For Barron, he is nothing less than an obsession, and there will come a point where he is willing to endanger himself, his family and his friends to stop Thorne.
With plenty of action and suspense, The Exile makes a fast-paced and entertaining read, but it also has enough clear weaknesses to rate more than a high three-stars. In particular, the plot is far too contrived and driven by too many coincidences. The motivations of the main characters are also questionable: it's hard to tell what makes Barron so perilously obsessed with Thorne. For Thorne's part, it seems implausible that - given his critical role in making the conspiracy succeed - that he would be allowed to be so "hands-on." It's like allowing a boxer to engage in a few street fights right before he has a championship bout, unnecessarily risking the big payout.
I suppose in the post-Ludlum era, we need another writer to provide grand novels of international intrigue, chock full of conspiracy and action. Folsom fills the niche satisfactorily, with many of the same pluses and minuses that Ludlum offered. Of course, he's not prolific enough to really please fans of the genre (only three books in over a decade, around five years between books), but Folsom delivers adequately, if not superbly.
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