Double Image Book

Most (that's "most") of David Morrell's books are what I'd call good to excellent. Like everyone he has a false note how and then, it happens to the best. Of course we actually don't all agree on which of his books ARE the false notes.

Anyway...this isn't one of the false notes, it is however a little different from Morrell's usual fare. Most of his books are excellent action thrillers. First Blood, The Brotherhood of the Rose, The Fraternity Of The Stone and others are fast moving, involving action thrillers. This is a yak of a seperate species.

A photographer (our hero Mitch Coltrane we're talking about here) gets a chance to meet a famous photographer from the past decades (Randolph Packard). Coltrane is disillusioned with what he's become. He no longer sees "LIFE" when he takes photos. He's a war photographer having just returned from photographing atrocities in an assignment in Bosnia.

Meeting Packard and seeing in him some of the same disillusionment he begins a friendship...until his new friend dies. BUT Packard has asked Coltrane to follow the path of his most famous series of photographs, the houses of famous people in Hollywood. Coltrane will follow the same path and photograph those same houses from the locations at the same angles as the originals...changes.

He also get's the house Packard lived in "back then". In that house, in a secret room he discovers a stash of photographs. There are hundreds and hundreds of photos all of the same incredibly beautiful woman.

AND this launches him into an obsessive quest that get's deeper, stranger and more deadly as it goes...

Good book. I can recommend this one and think most will enjoy it. it is a more psychological thrill and not so much built around action but Morrell shows us he can handle both.

Enjoy.