Bill Eidson

The Little Brother (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bill Eidson's first novel is an early and frightening look at the concept of identity theft. When Boston-based dive shop owner, Rod Konrad, runs short of money, he decides to share his apartment. Bette, his girlfriend, isn't ready to move in, so he places an ad for a roommate. Brendan is nice enough-as nice as a stranger invading your home can be. He certainly takes to Rod. But isn't he trying too hard? He talks like Rod, acts like him, and is always just a little too close. Left unchecked, he'll not only steal Rod's clothes-but his life. THE LITTLE BROTHER is a fast, dark thriller that tackles the very concept of who we are. "Ever advertised for a roommate, and feared the stranger who is about to share your digs is a psychopath? Go ahead; scare yourself to death." -Hartford Courant "One of the joys of reviewing is the discovery of a major new talent. [Bill Eidson has]...constructed a fascinating, terrifying psychological profile that ranks with the best and needs to be recognized by awards committees. Highly recommended." -Mystery News "There is something undeniably intriguing about the relentlessness and almost gleeful inventiveness that Nolan...brings to his demented, homicidal obsession..." -The Washington Post "It will make you avoid dark hallways and sense something sinister behind a friendly stranger's smile. The novel crawls with suspense. If the story grips you, THE LITTLE BROTHER may have you by the throat." -The Pittsburgh Press

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781497605251
• Artikelnr.: 44350963

Autorenporträt

Bill Eidson's critically acclaimed thrillers are never too far from the sea, influenced by his growing up and living in New England. From the dive instructor in The Little Brotherwho slowly discovers his new housemate is a psychopath, to the ex-DEA agent in The Maydayhired to find two children everyone else believes were lost at sea, Eidson's fast-paced novels involve ordinary people who cross courses with the violent among us all. Eidson's books are not only page-turners, but his characters, both the heroic and the vicious, come fully to life. His novels have been favorably reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Herald, the Providence Journal, and Entertainment Weekly, and have received starred reviews in Kirkus Reviewsand Publishers Weekly. He has received praise from authors such as Robert B. Parker and Peter Straub, and he has been compared to Elmore Leonard. The Boston Globe's review of One Bad Thingsaid, "Eidson writes a tough, direct prose edged with irony, and he may well be a successor, at last, to the much-missed John D. MacDonald." Three of Eidson's books have been optioned for movies and translated for foreign rights. A Kirkus Reviewsline about The Maydaysums it up for all of Eidson's work: "Here's crime fiction the way it's supposed to be." To learn more about Bill's freelance writing and his books, go to www.billeidson.com.