This book had its moments but, overall, it was a disappointment. The two qualities that saved me from applying a one star rating were Blatty's trademark poetic descriptions and a clever ending that I never saw coming. Whereas his earlier works soared, this book dragged until the very end and was ...
TTKK is a truly remarkable book, albeit one with very little intrinsic value. It's about Colonel Hudson Kane, who comes to the Bela Slovik mansion as a famous psychologist tasked with "curing" its nutty Air Force inmates, among whom is the astronaut who flaked out prior to America's first mission...
Colonel Kane, a United States Marine Corps psychiatrist suffering from nightmares, arrives at a castle in the American Pacific Northwest where mentally ill soldiers from the Vietnam war are being treated. The castle's staff has been unable to control the patients, many of whom are suspected of fa...
Look, you'll see it in the records. It's for real." "Yes, I'm sure. But again, that's a natural phenomenon." "Where? Transylvania?" Chris said, incredulous. Karras shook his head. "No, I've come across cases of that in the journals. There was one, I remember, where a prison psychiatrist reported ...
ATKINS WAS waiting for him. The lab results were in. Kinderman sat at his desk and pushed aside a scattering of books with turned–down pages to make a space for the typed reports. He then went through them. The use of succinylcholine in the murder of the priest was confirm...
I’d surprised him alone in the office of Joseph Andrews Mortuary, which was right across the street from the St. Stephen’s church rear entrance on 33rd and where he worked a few hours a week and therefore wouldn’t be wearing that moth-eaten oversized coat so he couldn’t do his his weirdo “Dutch D...
Dearest Jean, Last night an odd dream. It was vivid. I had died and now a bright red light was confronting me. It was painful and I tried to turn away. I was aware that the light was completely responsible for the government of the universe. Two of its ministers had been put in charge of space ...