The Angel Maker [Import] [Hardcover]

RIDLEY PEARSON (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: SEVERN HOUSE PUBLISHERS LTD; New Ed edition (1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0727846574
• ISBN-13: 978-0727846570
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,862,206 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ridley Pearson (www.ridleypearson.com), the first American to be awarded the Raymond Chandler/Fulbright Fellowship in Detective Fiction at Wadham College, Oxford University, is the bestselling author of over 35 novels including, Peter And the Starcatchers (co-written with Dave Barry), the young adult novel, The Kingdom Keepers, and two dozen crime novels including: Probable Cause, Beyond Recognition and Killer Weekend (July 2007). His novel The Diary Of Ellen Rimbauer, a prequel to a Stephen King miniseries, was a New York Times #1 bestseller, as was Peter and the Shadow Thieves (#1 for 6 weeks). Ridley adapted The Diary Of Ellen Rimbaurer for ABC Television; it aired in 2003.

Peter and the Starcatchers is to open as a stage play, off-Broadway in March 2011, under Disney Theatrical.

Ridley is a founding member of, and plays bass guitar in, the all-author rock band, The Rockbottom Remainders (www.rockbottomremainders.com), with Dave Barry, Stephen King, Scott Turow, Mitch Albom, Amy Tan and Greg Iles. The band has raised over 2.5 million dollars for charities over its 18 year history.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding book - dynamite plot!, January 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Angel Maker (Paperback)

One of the best thrillers I have read in a while. Tons of suspense, it constantly leaves you hanging, forcing you to read just a little more, and then a bit more still. Even though you know how it will turn out in the end, the interesting and original story will keep you plugged in all the way. Another excellent book that has a somewhat similar plot is Extreme Measures by Michael Palmer.

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A grim, ugly story, May 8, 2000

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Doug Vaughn - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Angel Maker (Paperback)

I generally enjoy Ridley Pearson's books but I have to say that I found The Angel Maker more than a little unpleasant. There is, in truth, a grim fascination with the story, but "grim" is the opperative word. I was never able to escape, while reading this, the oppressive feeling that Pearson was playing an ugly joke on the reader. To use murdering street kids for their organs as a premise for a plot, to make clear who the villain is, and to make the tension of the story revolve around saving one particular potential victim in time, results in an unsatisfactory blend of classic melodrama and contemporary urban myth. I read it, but I didn't like it. Part of the problem, for me, is that I think using kids as victims in crime drama is a cheap appeal for emotion. While kids frequently are the victim of vicious crimes, they are more likely to be victimized by their own family than anonymous psychos and evil doctors.

While there is a story here that many will find sufficiently interesting, I cannot recommend it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not as bad as the previous reviews, April 22, 2006

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T. Torfin "Torf" (Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Angel Maker (Mass Market Paperback)

This second rendition by Pearson is not that bad. Why is everybody so grossed out by this title, if you think about it, not as bad as CSI, and some movies that show graphic medical procedures. This has great characters in Mathews and Boldt. Some humor, action, intrigue and suspense, yes some of the descriptions of the operations are graphic but much more tame than a CSI autopsy on TV and I bet these reviewers show put the book down love CSI. I was skeptical after reading some of these reviews before I read the book but I read it anyway and liked it. Pearson is too good not to read.