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Dr. O
Dr. Maurice Ovierto was proud of his handiwork. He removed his little trophies with great care from his victims, wrapped them in surgical gauze and sent them by Express Mail only. Human flesh was much to delicate for regular mail...
He wanted them to arrive in good condition for FBI Inspector Donna Thorpe. She alone understood his special talents, despite the pigs she worked with. He'd killed her partner to make her notice his genius, Now, it was time for her family. Soon Dr. O would have his greatest triumph: Her pain.
(This book was originally published in paperback under the pen name Glenn Hale.)
He wanted them to arrive in good condition for FBI Inspector Donna Thorpe. She alone understood his special talents, despite the pigs she worked with. He'd killed her partner to make her notice his genius, Now, it was time for her family. Soon Dr. O would have his greatest triumph: Her pain.
(This book was originally published in paperback under the pen name Glenn Hale.)
- GenresHorror
480 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 22, 2010
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About the author
Robert W. Walker
184 books75 followersAka Geoffrey Caine, Glenn Hale, Evan Kingsbury, Stephen Robertson
Master of suspense and bone-chilling terror, Robert W. Walker, BS and MS in English Education, Northwestern University, has penned 44 novels and has taught language and writing for over 25 years. Showing no signs of slowing down, he is currently juggling not one but three new series ideas, and has completed a film script and a TV treatment. Having grown up in Chicago and having been born in the shadow of the Shiloh battlefield, near Corinth, Mississippi, Walker has two writing traditions to uphold--the Windy City one and the Southern one--all of which makes him uniquely suited to write City for Ransom and its sequels, Shadows in White City and City of the Absent. His Dead On will be published in July 2009. Walker is currently working on a new romantic-suspense-historical-mainstream novel, titled Children of Salem. In 2003 and 2004 Walker saw an unprecedented seven novels released on the "unsuspecting public," as he puts it. Final Edge, Grave Instinct, and Absolute Instinct were published in 2004. City of the Absent debuted in 2008 from Avon. Walker lives in Charleston, West Virginia.
Master of suspense and bone-chilling terror, Robert W. Walker, BS and MS in English Education, Northwestern University, has penned 44 novels and has taught language and writing for over 25 years. Showing no signs of slowing down, he is currently juggling not one but three new series ideas, and has completed a film script and a TV treatment. Having grown up in Chicago and having been born in the shadow of the Shiloh battlefield, near Corinth, Mississippi, Walker has two writing traditions to uphold--the Windy City one and the Southern one--all of which makes him uniquely suited to write City for Ransom and its sequels, Shadows in White City and City of the Absent. His Dead On will be published in July 2009. Walker is currently working on a new romantic-suspense-historical-mainstream novel, titled Children of Salem. In 2003 and 2004 Walker saw an unprecedented seven novels released on the "unsuspecting public," as he puts it. Final Edge, Grave Instinct, and Absolute Instinct were published in 2004. City of the Absent debuted in 2008 from Avon. Walker lives in Charleston, West Virginia.
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January 7, 2016
My original Dr. O audiobook review and many others can be found at Audiobook Reviewer.
This was a difficult one to review.
While the audiobook narrator, David Winograd, was pretty good for the male characters and especially suitable for the evil Dr. O, his female voices were almost painful to listen to. I think I would have preferred just his normal speaking voice for the women. As it was, the female characters sounded as if they were all totally batty. It made me cringe, and I actually stopped listening several times because of it.
From the book blurb, I was expecting a sound serial killer versus FBI story. That’s what I got to a certain degree, and I enjoyed parts of the story. BUT, the plot and the characters were so over the top, I ended up not taking any of it serious anymore. It just turned into some comical satire.
Dr. Maurice Ovierto, who likes to remove particular body parts of his victims to send to his nemesis, FBI agent Donna Thorpe, at times dresses up in women’s clothing and make up, eludes capture in spectacular fashion over and over again and makes the police and FBI look utterly clueless.
FBI inspector Donna Thorpe apparently loves her husband and kids, but she also had a thing going with her FBI partner, of course, who was then killed by Dr O (of course). Then she gets another copper killed by involving him in the hunt for Dr O, and to top it off, she then starts a lesbian relationship with the dead policeman’s former partner. I didn’t know whether to laugh out loud or cringe when I got to the sex scene.
At that stage, I decided to do a bit of Internet stalking and came across a comment by the author that he had indeed meant this as a tongue in cheek parody when he was having issues with his publisher. Wish somebody had mentioned that in the book blurb!
It just wasn’t what I had expected. However, if you like larger-than-life action and far-fetched FBI versus serial killer encounters with plenty of dead bodies, you may enjoy this. Personally, the best bits were the ones were the author killed off characters that I never expected he would kill. So there was some unpredictability, and if you take it as a lighthearted parody instead of a serious thriller, it was ok.
Audiobook provided for review by the http://audiobookreviewer.com
This was a difficult one to review.
While the audiobook narrator, David Winograd, was pretty good for the male characters and especially suitable for the evil Dr. O, his female voices were almost painful to listen to. I think I would have preferred just his normal speaking voice for the women. As it was, the female characters sounded as if they were all totally batty. It made me cringe, and I actually stopped listening several times because of it.
From the book blurb, I was expecting a sound serial killer versus FBI story. That’s what I got to a certain degree, and I enjoyed parts of the story. BUT, the plot and the characters were so over the top, I ended up not taking any of it serious anymore. It just turned into some comical satire.
Dr. Maurice Ovierto, who likes to remove particular body parts of his victims to send to his nemesis, FBI agent Donna Thorpe, at times dresses up in women’s clothing and make up, eludes capture in spectacular fashion over and over again and makes the police and FBI look utterly clueless.
FBI inspector Donna Thorpe apparently loves her husband and kids, but she also had a thing going with her FBI partner, of course, who was then killed by Dr O (of course). Then she gets another copper killed by involving him in the hunt for Dr O, and to top it off, she then starts a lesbian relationship with the dead policeman’s former partner. I didn’t know whether to laugh out loud or cringe when I got to the sex scene.
At that stage, I decided to do a bit of Internet stalking and came across a comment by the author that he had indeed meant this as a tongue in cheek parody when he was having issues with his publisher. Wish somebody had mentioned that in the book blurb!
It just wasn’t what I had expected. However, if you like larger-than-life action and far-fetched FBI versus serial killer encounters with plenty of dead bodies, you may enjoy this. Personally, the best bits were the ones were the author killed off characters that I never expected he would kill. So there was some unpredictability, and if you take it as a lighthearted parody instead of a serious thriller, it was ok.
Audiobook provided for review by the http://audiobookreviewer.com
January 30, 2014
This book took some time for me to finish. Not just for the descriptive gruesome and gory scenes or the characters I felt vital to the story were being killed off but that fact I was having nightmares because of it. I wished the ending was done differently but I have a feeling Dr. O will show up in another series.
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January 2, 2015
This was a good book.I'm not sure I'd recommend it,since it was so bloody.The narrator,David Winograd,was a perfect match for the Doctor and mens voices.His ladies voices always sound like your smoking 70 year old aunt though.lol The story was good,maybe a bit long.The ending was the best.
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