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Double Image (1999)

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0446606960 (ISBN13: 9780446606967)
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Double Image (1999) - Plot & Excerpts

Most (that's "most") of David Morrell's books are what I'd call good to excellent. Like everyone he has a false note how and then, it happens to the best. Of course we actually don't all agree on which of his books ARE the false notes.Anyway...this isn't one of the false notes, it is however a little different from Morrell's usual fare. Most of his books are excellent action thrillers. First Blood, The Brotherhood of the Rose, The Fraternity Of The Stone and others are fast moving, involving action thrillers. This is a yak of a seperate species.A photographer (our hero Mitch Coltrane we're talking about here) gets a chance to meet a famous photographer from the past decades (Randolph Packard). Coltrane is disillusioned with what he's become. He no longer sees "LIFE" when he takes photos. He's a war photographer having just returned from photographing atrocities in an assignment in Bosnia. Meeting Packard and seeing in him some of the same disillusionment he begins a friendship...until his new friend dies. BUT Packard has asked Coltrane to follow the path of his most famous series of photographs, the houses of famous people in Hollywood. Coltrane will follow the same path and photograph those same houses from the locations at the same angles as the originals...changes.He also get's the house Packard lived in "back then". In that house, in a secret room he discovers a stash of photographs. There are hundreds and hundreds of photos all of the same incredibly beautiful woman.AND this launches him into an obsessive quest that get's deeper, stranger and more deadly as it goes...Good book. I can recommend this one and think most will enjoy it. it is a more psychological thrill and not so much built around action but Morrell shows us he can handle both.Enjoy.

Although, David Morrell is a bestseller writer and is considered as one of the best thriller writers today, this book is one big bite that is a little harder to chew. Let alone swallow. Morrell tried to combine two stories into one, well...not actually combine since they are not parallel but linear, and even though it is very well written, after you close the book for the last time, you are left with a little more than pure entertainment. I agree that entertainment (no, not the Hollywood type) is an important part of literature, but relying only on pure fun...is not something you would want to do. As said before, it is a very well written book, very fast reading, the only problem is the story itself. Yes, there are nice moments, but some of the characters, especially the main antagonists, are rather too...incredible to say the least. In the sense that you get the "Come on! Really!?" feeling from time to time. Another thing that bothers is the lack of proper research of the Yugoslav civil war (the main antagonist is a war criminal). While I can understand the use of typical misleading facts for dramatic purposes, I cannot let go of the feeling that Morrell just didn't feel like researching when he started this book. "All in all...just another brick in the wall."

What do You think about Double Image (1999)?

This was my first David Morrell book and I really enjoyed it. A lot of people who didn't like it seem to have compared it to his other books. Since I have not ready any others, I had no expectations. The book contains two somewhat unrelated plots, but they were both very exciting and I understand why they are together in one book. I never want to put the book down, read a lot of it with a flashlight in bed while my husband slept and was bummed out any time regular life got in the way of my reading. To me, that equals a good read.
—Debbie

David Morrell is my favorite author of all times. Whether it's the clever, complex yet simple plotting, the wonderful characters... he is, to me, a genius bar-none. DI was the first book I have ever read from Morrell when I was 17, and I couldn't put it down for one second (so much so, i've finished it in two nights). The characters, positive or negatives, are real, human, flawed. You can relate to them, especially to the main characters. Their psychology is wonderfully explored throughout this psychological thriller. You never quite sure what's gonna happen next as the plot moves a long at break-neck pace. The action scenes are engulfing and the events that lead to the final showdown, and the final showdown itself, were mesmerizing are written to the nth degree.But I really loved in this thriller, more than anything else, is that it asks an important questions: who are we? what are we? in relation to ourselves and to others? what makes us be what we are and who we are? Are we controlled by our emotions and traumas alone or can we overcome them and start a new life? And what is really important to us in our lives? (of course, I may read to much into this book).After this book, I've became a fan of Morrell, and to this day, I haven't been disappointed. The truth is, as i've seen with my friends, no matter how you read it and how you see it, you will enjoy it thoroughly.
—Daniel Kincaid

No doubt about it, Morrell writes solid action-packed thrillers with enough twists in plot to keep the reader guessing and turning the pages. There are actually two separate stories in this book, though, piggy backed one on top of the other. I think that breaks up the narrative flow to a certain extent - especially when the reader comes to the conclusion of the first episode and realizes he still has half the book left to read - but it's not a fatal flaw. Still, I would have preferred if the author had broken the book down into two separate novels. It seems too wildly implausible that the protagonist would go directly from one hair raising adventure to another (each with its own violently psychotic villain) within the space of a week.
—Frank McAdam

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