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BookBrowse Reviews Oblivion: 'Marvelous...classically suspenseful and completely fresh. Grade: A.' Thriller

Oblivion
by Peter Abrahams
Paperback, Apr 2006,
384 pages.
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From the book jacket: What determines your identity? When Nick Petrov wakes up in a hospital room, his clothes are two sizes too big. Everyone treats him like a victim. And he can't remember how he got there in the first place. Petrov is a brilliant private investigator with a reputation for bringing missing children safely home so when he awakes in a hospital bed, his memory of the past two weeks a complete blank, his personality altered, he is tempted to just put the trauma behind him and move on with his life, but there are too many things holding him back. When he returns home, he discovers a photograph full of strangers. In his office is a greeting card with a cryptic message inside,...
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Abraham's first book, The Fury of Rachel Monette, was published in 1980; since then he has published a further 15 adult novels and, last year, his first novel for teens, Down The Rabbit Hole, the first in the Echo Falls Mystery series.  Although all his books fall broadly into the thriller category, to pigeonhole him as simply a writer of thrillers is too simplistic. For a bibliography of his books see BookBrowse.  His latest novel for adults, End of Story, was published in hardcover earlier this month, and the second in his Echo Falls Mystery, Behind The Curtain, series will be published next week.

When asked which authors have most influences him he cites Vladimir Nabokov, Graham Greene and Dostoevsky, in...
This review is from the April 20, 2006 issue of BookBrowse Recommends. Click here to go to this issue.
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