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A carregar... State of Mindpor John Katzenbach
   Books Read in 2002 (97) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.   Natt90 | Apr 13, 2023 |  State of Mind takes place sometime in the near future at a rurally located university of some 25,000 students. Jeffrey Clayton teaches Abnormal Psychology, keeps a loaded pistol under his desk in the lecture hall, and like most other teachers has a metal detector at the entrance to his classroom. Classrooms have bulletproof windows, students set fire to classrooms to avoid having to take exams, and campus police, a branch of the state police, never travel alone and wear riot gear.. A recent experiment with guard dogs being let loose in vacant classrooms seemed to have helped the vandalism problem, but their howling can be distracting. About half the student population was thought to carry guns, but fortunately they were located in a mainly rural town where the Student Health Service might expect only a dozen rapes and stabbings on a weekend. Urban areas were much worse. Clayton is approached by a well-armed man who identifies himself as an agent of state security from the new Western Territory, a semi-fascist area that wants to become the fifty-first state. This man, who calls himself Martin, knows a great deal of Clayton's work with the FBI as a man able to track down serial killers. He also knows a great deal about Clayton's past. It turns out that Jeffrey's father, whom he thought had died in a car crash years before, is alive, living in the new state, and murdering young women. What could be better cover than "white, educated, artioulate, professional academic, married with a lovely family. They, of course, were the critical piece, you know. The ultimate in camouflage." Years before, Jeffrey, his sister, Susan, and mother, Diana, had fled and hidden from the father because of his predelictions. This removed his camouflage requiring his creation of a new identity and fmily. Now he has begun to stalk Susan, a puzzle expert, and Diana in Florida, also. What better place for him now to hide out than a new state where fear has been eliminated. Martin and the territory officials are desperate to locate and kill the unknown man who they fear will destroy the psychological rational for their new state and the basis for their supression of basic civil liberties in the name of safety and freedom from fear. Jeffrey realizes he has become the bait to trap his father. Soon begins a cat and mouse game between Peter Curtin, Jeffrey's father, as he is now known, and his old family. What makes the book particularly interesting is the tension between the old, free, violence-ridden world, and the new, safe, unfree territory that may be actually more susceptible to violence than the old. Both State of Mind and The Analyst have a Kafkaesque quality to them, more so the latter, especially in the beginning. They also involve families allied in a nefarious plot. (  ) ecw0647 | Sep 30, 2013 | Es ist nicht nur dadurch so mitreißend, dass die Hauptfigur mit all ihren Stärken und Schwächen auf der Suche nach der eigenen Vergangenheit die grausame Wahrheit entdeckt, sondern auch, weil dabei die Umgebung dabei eine Rolle spielt, die das wahre Amerika darstellt, mit all der menschlichen Gewalt und natürlichen Schönheit. ( ) SteWi | Aug 10, 2013 | Die Raestel waren an den Haaren herbei gezogen und hoerten ploetzlich auf. Ich denke, das die Idee gut war, aber die Ausfuehrung haette viel besser sein koennen. (  ) kakadoo202 | Oct 2, 2012 | afzondering. Zij werkt op de redactie van Miami Magazine, waarin wekelijks haar woordraadseltjes verschijnen. Op zekere dag ontvangt zij van een onbekende een cryptische maar huiveringwekkende boodschap: Ik heb je gevonden. Jeffrey Clayton, hoogleraar criminele psychologie, draagt een geheim uit het verleden met zich mee. 25-jaar geleden ontvluchtte hij met zijn moeder en zusje zijn tirannieke vader, die kort daarop, verdacht van moord, zelfmoord zou hebben gepleegd. Dan raakt Jeffrey tegen zijn zin betrokken bij het onderzoek naar een seriemoordenaar, een moordzuchtige sadist die is binnengedrongen in de pas opgerichte Eenenvijftigste Staat van de VS, die bedoelt is als heilstaat, als veilige haven in een land vol moreel verval en misdaad. De autoriteiten zijn er namelijk van overtuigd dat deze moordenaar niemand anders is dan Jeffreys vader en ze stellen hem een ultimatum: bezorg ons de man die verantwoordelijk is voor deze slachting. Vind je vader. ( ) tantanel | Mar 31, 2008 | sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
A new state is forming in America, carving out land across other state boundaries to form a secure sanctuary for the law-abiding who have lost the fight against the spiralling crime and decadence of the late 20th century. Known to the authorities but not to the populace, a serial killer has managed to by-pass the strict controls and is operating anonymously in the supposed new Utopia. His modus operandi is recognised from similar, but 20-year-old killings elsewhere and there is only one thing which will entrap him - his own family who were the only people to escape from him. His son agrees to form part of the bait, but before he does he has to confront the knowledge that he was fathered by a monster and also decide whether if he had to, he would be able to kill his own parents. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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