<p>It is America's most notorious, unsolved, serial murder case: the Green River Killer slaughtered at least fifty women in the Seattle-Portland area during the 1980s and was never brought to justice. Now, in this gripping novel, the bestselling author of The Detective and Diehard presents his own horrifying portrayal of the Green River killings. River unmasks the Green River Killer and reveals why he was never caught--a story no true crime account has ever been able to tell. <br />
Phil Boudreau is a veteran detective with the Seattle vice squad. Tough, smart, impatient, he appreciates beautiful women and genuinely cares for the throwaway kids on his beat. Boudreau knows from the first that the murderer is cunning and brilliant. Then the details of one of the killings burn a name into Boudreau's mind: Garrett Richard Lockman. <br />
Sent to jail by Boudreau years before, Garrett Lockman is society's worst nightmare: a shrewd, manipulative career criminal driven by an unstoppable will and insatiable sexual needs. When Boudreau learns that Lockman had escaped from prison before the first killing, the detective conceives an obsession of his own: prove that Lockman is the perpetrator of the most sadistic crimes one human being can commit against another. <br />
But Boudreau is powerless to act--through Lockman's machinations, he, himself has become a suspect. As Boudreau stalks Lockman for eight grueling years, he realizes to his horror, that the police department has become an accomplice in the unspeakable crimes. River reaches its shattering climax in an agonizing power struggle between psychopath and cop--a contest that Boudreau can win only by dispensing justice as cruel as Lockman's crimes.<br />
No other writer has probed the evil depths of a serial killer's mind as unflinchingly as Rod Thorp does in River. No other crime writer has rivaled Thorp's mastery of the paralyzing labyrinth of the criminal justice system. River is a brilliant portrait of heinous criminality that starts with the reported facts and explodes into fiction of unsurpassed intensity. Relentless in its suspense, chilling in the dark truth it explores, River is an overwhelming journey into the nightmare of evil that surrounds us all.<br />
"River is the perfect serial killer novel. Horrifying, dark, procedurally fascinating, unrelenting in its suspense."<br />
--Jonathan Kellerman</p>
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我必须强调这本书在处理“道德灰色地带”上的高明之处。在这里,没有绝对的好人与坏蛋,每个人物都是由无数矛盾的动机编织而成的复杂体。一个在故事早期被刻画为卑鄙小人的角色,随着情节的深入,你会发现他那些看似恶毒行为背后的无奈与保护欲,让你对他产生复杂的同情甚至敬佩。这种对人性的多维度呈现,极大地提升了故事的说服力和真实感。它没有给我们提供简单的答案或廉价的救赎,而是迫使我们直面生活中的两难选择。我尤其欣赏作者对于“后果论”的探讨,即便是出发点最为纯良的行动,也可能在既定的命运洪流中引发无法预料的灾难。这本书像一面镜子,映照出我们内心深处那些不愿承认的自私与挣扎,让人在阅读结束后,对人与人之间的关系有了更深一层的理解和宽容。它不提供安慰,它提供的是真相,那种未经稀释的、带着棱角的真相。
评分这本书的语言风格,简直是文学界的“私人订制”——独一无二,无法复制。它不像那些追求流畅易读的畅销书,而是带着一种古老的、韵律感十足的腔调,读起来需要一些耐心去适应,但一旦进入那个语境,便会深深地沉醉其中。作者大量运用了精心锤炼的比喻和排比,句子结构常常出人意料,但回味起来却又无比精准地捕捉到了那种微妙的情绪。比如,他描述悲伤时,会用“那感觉就像是冬日里被遗忘在壁炉旁的灰烬,既没有温度,也失去了化为火焰的可能”,这种画面感极强的表达,直接穿透了文字表层,直达心底最柔软的地方。虽然有些段落可能需要反复诵读才能完全领会其精妙之处,但这恰恰是其魅力所在——它要求读者付出努力,并因此获得更丰厚的回报。我个人认为,这部作品的价值,有一半是体现在它那些神来之笔的句子里的,它们单独摘出来,都可以成为独立的散文佳作。
评分从装帧和排版来看,出版方显然也深谙此书的艺术价值。纸张的质感厚实而富有年代感,印刷的字体选择典雅,即便在光线不佳的环境下阅读,也依旧能保持舒适度。更值得称赞的是,作者在叙事节奏的掌控上,简直是教科书级别的示范。他懂得何时该放慢脚步,让人物在静默中完成内在的蜕变;也懂得何时该猛烈加速,用一连串的事件将读者的心绪推向顶点。这种对节奏的精妙拿捏,使得长篇阅读过程始终保持着一种令人愉悦的张力,避免了中段的疲软。我曾尝试在旅途中阅读,发现它非常适合在不受打扰的、需要沉浸式体验的环境中进行。它不是那种可以被随意丢开的书籍,它要求你全神贯注地投入其中,而当你投入之后,你会发现你所获得的回报,远远超出了你付出的时间成本。这是一部需要被认真对待,并值得反复品味的文学巨著。
评分说实话,我一开始对这种篇幅如此浩瀚的小说有些畏惧,担心读起来会过于晦涩或者沉闷,但事实证明我的担忧是多余的。作者显然对历史和人类文明的进程有着深刻的洞察力,他将宏大的历史背景巧妙地融入到个体命运的叙事之中,让读者在跟随主角冒险的同时,也接受了一次潜移默化的历史教育。书中构建的世界观极其庞大且逻辑自洽,各种文化符号、神话传说被糅合得天衣无缝,既保留了原有的神秘色彩,又赋予了新的生命力。我特别喜欢其中对于权力结构的解构方式,它没有简单地将统治者描绘成纯粹的恶,而是展示了权力在不同个体手中产生的异化和扭曲,这使得整个故事的深度远远超出了普通的冒险故事范畴。阅读过程中,我经常需要停下来查阅一些作者引用的古代文献或地理知识,这更像是进行了一场智力上的探险。对于喜欢深度思考和喜爱复杂世界设定的读者来说,这本书绝对是不可多得的宝藏,它提供的不仅仅是娱乐,更是一次对人类复杂性的深刻探索。
评分这部作品简直是文字的盛宴,作者的笔触细腻入微,对人物心理的刻画简直达到了令人拍案叫绝的程度。故事的开篇虽然平缓,却像一位技艺高超的织布匠,缓慢而有条不紊地铺陈着一张巨大的网,每一个看似不经意的细节,都暗藏着日后情节发展的伏笔。我尤其欣赏作者对于环境描写的功力,那些异域风情的城镇、被遗忘的古老遗迹,仿佛拥有了自己的生命力,读者一头扎进去,便能闻到空气中泥土和海水的味道。主角的转变过程更是引人入胜,他不是那种脸谱化的英雄,而是充满了挣扎、迷茫与成长的复杂个体。他所做的每一个艰难抉择,都让我感同身受,甚至在深夜里合上书本后,还会反复咀嚼那些片段,思考自己若处在他那个境地,会如何应对。这本书的情节推进张弛有度,高潮迭起之处,肾上腺素飙升,让人手不释卷,生怕错过任何一个转折。而那些温柔的、充满哲理的对话,又像一股清泉,洗涤着读者的心灵,让人在紧张之余获得片刻的宁静与思考。这种叙事上的平衡感,是很多宏大叙事作品所难以企及的。
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