More highly recommended action thrillers:Falling by TJ Newman / Man Down by Irma Venter / The Burning Island by Jock Serong / Ask No Questions by Lisa Hartley / Real Tigers by Mick Herronif(typeof ez_ad_units != 'undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[250,250],'bookloverbookreviews_com-large-mobile-banner-1','ezslot_5',175,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-bookloverbookreviews_com-large-mobile-banner-1-0'); Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland during the Troubles of the 1970s and 1980s. The suspense here is intense, as one would expect, given the premise, but the true brilliance in this unrelenting novel comes from the way McKinty makes Rachel confront her own capacity for evil and deal with its reverberations, not only on herself and the child she kidnaps, but also on her own child, Kylie. STEPHEN KING, McKinty is one of the most striking and most memorable crime voices to emerge on the scene in years. Stanley Milgrams postwar experiments in social cruelty, determining what kind of electric shocks subjects would administer to other people if they thought it was normal, arent directly cited here, but they are essentially what The Chain is about. Only when Rachel is a victim, a perpetrator, has herself driven someone else to commit a kidnapping and has had to accept that she might have to kill a child to save her own, only then will Rachel's daughter be released. Then the book grabbed hold and off. "Booklist (starred review)"The Chain has all the hallmarks of a monster hit, including a terrifying premise that had me wondering: Is this actually happening somewhere right now? But then a phone call changes everything. Lucy reviews new thriller novel THE CHAIN by Adrian McKinty. At the peak of the action, discordant notes pop out: A revolver with a safety catch; a Massachusetts colloquialism that doesn't ring quite true. If Rachel doesnt follow the program, Kylie will die. And so it goes: The Chain. $13.99 + $3.65 shipping. McKinty has the last laugh at the makeshift work that drove him around the bend, when a character talks about how efficient The Chain was designed to be. How closely can we be tracked? And I bet I won't be the only one. And how far into the darkness she is prepared to go. Adrian McKinty Novel The Chain Edgar Wright Universal Jane - Deadline I admit I was a skeptic at first and poo-pooed the idea, that it wouldnt work. says the actress. That darkness and corruption dwell behind the shiny, happy faade of middle-class life is a common enough theme in American storytelling. The Chain: The Award-Winning Suspense Thriller of the Year Hardcover - 9 July 2019 by McKinty (Author), Adrian (Author) 8,287 ratings Editors' pick Hand selected reads See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 2.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover I have been very busy and unable to read a lot lately, but I have been wanting to read this one for a while, so I decided to give it a try. Adrian McKinty's The Chain was one of last year's hottest thrillers. The Chain, Adrian McKintys unashamedly commercial new stand-alone thriller, features a chilling plot and seems written for the big screen.
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