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A disturbing attack on a young nurse leaves the woman with both arms surgically amputated and yet still alive, and Detective Chalky Fuchs's only lead is a strong hunch that the attacker has had medical training.
267 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published March 1, 1993
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August 25, 2023
From the back of the book.
The victim was found alive. In shock. Traumatized by the things he did to her…
The police knew it had to be the work of someone who was medically trained. And insane. Only a doctor or nurse could perform a task so cleanly, so precisely. Only a surgeon could have kept her alive through it all.
Detective Fuchs has never seen anything so strange or disturbing in his entire career…
Until it happened again.
So the back of the book portrays that a mad doctor is going around cutting up women. Not quite. What we have is crazy dude who works at the hospital in housekeeping that witnessed a surgery and thinks to himself, I could do that. So he hacks off a woman’s arms and sews the stumps up. The woman lives and is treated at the hospital he works at. He overhears a female doctor say that his surgical work is ragged and unprofessional so he becomes her next target. Meanwhile he’s being hunted by two cops with one of the cops (Det. Fuchs) falling in love with the doctor.
Overall the book is run of the mill and paint by numbers. The opening is really good and so is the first half. It begins to bog down by the middle and then limps to its finale. The book is 30 pages overlong (it’s 267). I think if the psycho actually did more killings/maimings it would have helped on the pacing a bit. Mainly it’s just him rambling about bitches and putas. (Seriously you could do a drinking game out of it and not make it to the end of the book).
The psycho’s motives are not really explained either. There is a flashback to him as an immigrant child as he witness some pretty horrific and traumatizing things that happen to his family (the mother in particular). The other explanation is that he thinks his work on amputating this woman will bring him praise from the medical community and he won’t have to go to med school. Ummm…ok.
I got this book cheap (I think $1) so it had some moments that were entertaining. The rating is more 2 1/2 stars then 3. Oh and the blurb on the book claims it’s more shocking then The Silence Of The Lambs! Not quite. (Though I don’t fine Silence of the Lambs shocking either).
The victim was found alive. In shock. Traumatized by the things he did to her…
The police knew it had to be the work of someone who was medically trained. And insane. Only a doctor or nurse could perform a task so cleanly, so precisely. Only a surgeon could have kept her alive through it all.
Detective Fuchs has never seen anything so strange or disturbing in his entire career…
Until it happened again.
So the back of the book portrays that a mad doctor is going around cutting up women. Not quite. What we have is crazy dude who works at the hospital in housekeeping that witnessed a surgery and thinks to himself, I could do that. So he hacks off a woman’s arms and sews the stumps up. The woman lives and is treated at the hospital he works at. He overhears a female doctor say that his surgical work is ragged and unprofessional so he becomes her next target. Meanwhile he’s being hunted by two cops with one of the cops (Det. Fuchs) falling in love with the doctor.
Overall the book is run of the mill and paint by numbers. The opening is really good and so is the first half. It begins to bog down by the middle and then limps to its finale. The book is 30 pages overlong (it’s 267). I think if the psycho actually did more killings/maimings it would have helped on the pacing a bit. Mainly it’s just him rambling about bitches and putas. (Seriously you could do a drinking game out of it and not make it to the end of the book).
The psycho’s motives are not really explained either. There is a flashback to him as an immigrant child as he witness some pretty horrific and traumatizing things that happen to his family (the mother in particular). The other explanation is that he thinks his work on amputating this woman will bring him praise from the medical community and he won’t have to go to med school. Ummm…ok.
I got this book cheap (I think $1) so it had some moments that were entertaining. The rating is more 2 1/2 stars then 3. Oh and the blurb on the book claims it’s more shocking then The Silence Of The Lambs! Not quite. (Though I don’t fine Silence of the Lambs shocking either).
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