What do You think about The Best Revenge (2003)?
So many twists and turns you can bend yourself inside out trying to keep up, but I did like the story. I felt so sorry for Tom. In prison for 13 years for a murder he didn't commit - finally he's proved innocent and his real nightmare is only just beginning. I like to read stories set in Boulder - where my son spent a year at University - I can remember many of the roads White describes. Luckily I never met any of the psychos! It's a fast paced story, an enjoyable and as a study in how far someone will go to get revenge, it delivers.
—Barbara Elsborg
A man is released from prison after he spent 13 years on death row for a murder he didn’t commit. Or did he? Throughout, Stephen White’s The Best Revenge, it seems so, then it seems not, then it seems so, etc. And you’ll keep changing your mind as you try to pick up the clues. I found, though, I missed plenty of clues when I thought White was just giving background at the beginning of the book. Read it carefully. Someone is making life miserable for the ex-con. Or are they? Why is an FBI agent interested in him? How can their psychologist act ethically knowing what he knows?A good mystery/thriller does at least three things: 1) it doesn’t make you read several chapters before the action starts; 2) it keeps you from doing anything else because you don’t want to put it down; and 3) it makes you anticipate what’s going to happen, but what happens isn’t what you anticipated. Halfway through this book, I thought it accomplished two of those things. It made me keep guessing, but my guesses were wrong, and I wasn’t getting much done while I read it. I realized later, though, that mysteries and clues to the mysteries began at the beginning. I didn’t recognize them.I’m happy to say that I found an author, i.e., Stephen White is a new author for me, and now I get to read the rest of what he’s written. If you like a good mystery/thriller and you haven’t read White yet, I suggest you do.
—Beth
Definitely a page turner. The prologue was especially great at drawing me in as the reader. The first few chapters were a bit slower paced than what drew me in at first, but once you get into it, you don’t notice it as much. And it picks up as you delve further into the book :DThere were A LOT of unexpected twists and turns that I really never saw coming! And that’s always a bonus for me. I love to guess and none of my guesses came close! I love being wrong in thrillers!Really a fun read and I’d totally recommend it to anyone :)
—Tatiana Campos
