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afer read this book I am now a fan of Robert Hunter thrillerand the book quality is also great

Gripping...heart pounding....exciting. This is one, Chris Carter fans would absolutely love. I am eagerly waiting for more from Chris Carter.

The whole reason for buying this book was because of its rave reviews in GoodReads website. Unfortunately I was wrong about this one. The is a pretty straightforward gore-fest with the most unimaginative climax.

The book is slow in the beginning but then it picks up pace towards the end and your left helplessly glued to it, over all it's an amazing book with a crisp story which I'm sure is very unlike all the other cliche crime novels and is a must read for all mystery lovers.

Another powerful read from Chris Carter. The story moves along at breathtaking pace, grabbing your attention on the first page and dumping you a hundred-odd chapters later in a total train-wreck of emotions! Not for the squeamish, it packs shocks aplenty and a level of gore that, by comparison, relegates Hannibal Lecter to Telly Tubbies but the book is more than that.The story is well structured, with the character and motivation of the psychopathic killer expertly drawn. However, the true horror of the novel lies in where we’re going as a society, courtesy of the Internet and social media, ie trolling and cyber bullying, even to the extent of platforms to which you can now post live footage of suicides - what have we become?!!

So nice to read a really good thriller with the added bonus of good writing.I liked the characters of Detective Robert Hunter and his partner Carlos Garcia at the LAPD.The killer turned the murders into a game which he broadcast over the internet in which viewers had to press one of the two buttons provided in order to. choose whether or not the victims lived or died, and how.I was actually quite disappointed when the book finished, I was enjoying reading it so much.Full marks to the author, Chris Carter.

As always, Chris Carter can scare the living daylights out of you! It's not a scare you get from something being spooky, it's the very frightening possibility that this can happen, that there are truly evil people in the world that think the way some of his baddies do, and that is what makes these novels so terrifying! Carter writes about those evils so well

This is the 2nd Chris carter book I've read. It is brilliantly written, probably too well as it will give you nightmares. I do thrillers but generally not horror and this is a bit of both. That said I've never wanted a killer caught so desperately as I did for this! And the clues fitting together were again brilliant! If u can stand the horror of the deaths detailed then this is a great read.

Chris Carter’s vivid imagination and penchant for cooking up irresistible plots for crime novels is second to none, and so once again he has come up with a brilliant plot that will make your toes curl in no uncertain manner. Just when you thought his murder descriptions could not get any more horrible and gruesome….well, they just get more horrible and gruesome. There was one point in this book where I didn’t really know whether or not I could continue reading. I just about managed it.The architecture behind is novels and his characters are great. In particular his detectives, Hunter, Garcia and Captain Blake are all well fleshed out and we have come to know them well and love them and care about them.So here, in this latest book, we are once again in Los Angeles and a particularly nasty serial killer is on the loose. It begins when our detective Robert Hunter gets a phone call from an anonymous caller asking him to go to his computer and log onto an IP address immediately. In doing so, Hunter is not only forced to witness a live murder broadcast on the Internet, but the killer makes him choose the method with which the victim will die.Later, whilst the detectives are trying to figure out who the victim and the killer is, another anonymous phone call comes though to Hunter. This time the caller directs him to a live web page showing yet another victim, and this time the killer has decided to go viral, now asking the public to vote between two gruesome methods by which the victims will die. And vote they do.As I said earlier, these murders are very gruesome and detailed. They are reminiscent of the murders in the Saw movies, but here they are in your head - not on the screen, and they stay in your head for a long time.Meanwhile the killer leaves Hunter and his team a string of clues - playing cat and mouse with them and always staying one jump ahead. At one point the author almost spells it out for you, laying out the clues one by one, and you come tantalisingly close to figuring it all out, but it is always frustratingly just out of reach for you, just as it is for our detectives……Although purely fiction, a moral undertone goes through the book, questioning how and where society is heading these days, especially in the realms of reality TV shows, in which the public will not hesitate to see live insects being eaten alive on live TV (yes I know it’s a far cry from the murders in this book). But also they have no qualms about voting as to who will do this purely for entertainment. We also watch with amusement, less than talented people who think they are talented putting themselves up for ridicule on reality TV entertainment shows.So, just how much of this story is completely fiction. What would happen if a live murder/execution with the words GUILTY was broadcast on the Internet and the public at large were asked to vote on the method of death. Would they??????