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There are books you read because you are merely curious. There are also books you need to finish, before the unresolved tension gives you nightmares. This tension makes every turn of the page to feel like a shudder. Alex North is to the written word what David Fincher is to film. He understands the lost art of “less is more.” Subtlety marks the difference between an unsettling novel and a haunting one.