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BookBrowse Reviews Dry Ice: In his 15th thriller, White resurrects psychopathic killer Michael McClelland, last seen in the first Alan Gregory mystery, Privileged Information, in 1991

Dry Ice
A Novel
by Stephen White
Paperback, Mar 2008,
528 pages.
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White's first novel, Privileged Information (1991), featured Boulder, Colorado psychologist Alan Gregory who is convinced that one of his his patients, Michael McClelland, is a killer who will strike again, and sure enough he does. Fourteen books later, White has resurrected Michael McClelland in what some reviewers are calling his finest book to date.

Former meteorologist Michael McClelland's earlier excesses nearly cost Dr Gregory and his wife, Lauren, their lives. Now, like every self-respecting fictional psychopathic mass-murderer, he's escaped from the mental hospital for an encore. This time around, it's not just Gregory and Lauren who are in his sights but everyone who he holds responsible for his...
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Stephen White grew up in New York, New Jersey, and Southern California and attended the University of California at Irvine (where he lasted three weeks as a creative writing major) and Los Angeles, before graduating from Berkeley in 1972. Along the way he learned to fly small planes, worked as a tour guide at Universal Studios in Los Angeles, cooked, waited tables and tended bar.

Trained as a clinical psychologist, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in 1979 and became known as an authority on...
This review was originally published in March 2007, and has been updated for the March 2008 paperback release. Click here to go to this issue.
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