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BookBrowse Reviews Revolution No. 9: A duel both fascinating and frighteningly real. Medical thriller

Revolution No. 9
by Neil McMahon
Paperback, Dec 2005,
352 pages.
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Comment: This is Neil McMahon's fourth thriller starring ER physician Dr Carroll Monks (see sidebar for series order).  Poor old Monks is just putting his feet up for the evening when a woman comes knocking at the door saying her car's got a flat.  Being a true gent he doesn't lend her his phone to call the breakdown truck, instead he sets off to fix the flat himself, and is promptly abducted by his own long estranged son, Glenn.  He's taken to a remote community led by a charismatic counter-cultural sociopath known as Freeboot who's obsessed with the supposed hidden messages buried within old Beatles lyrics and the disintegration of workers' rights, the escalating differential between the...
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The Dr Monks series:
  • Twice Dying (paperback original 2000).  'E.R. meets psycho…a disturbing tale of damaged souls in a wounded world. Terse, moody, compelling.'
  • Blood Double (paperback original 2003): 'A step down from Twice Dying' - Kirkus Reviews.
  • To The Bone (hardcover 2003):  'exhilarating new medical thriller' - Publishers Weekly.
  • Revolution No. 9 (2005)

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This review is from the January 4, 2006 issue of BookBrowse Recommends. Click here to go to this issue.
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