Death Sentence [Import] [Paperback]

Brian Garfield (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 157 pages
• Publisher: Pan (1977)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 033025118X
• ISBN-13: 978-0330251181
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,435,631 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sequel to book not movie, October 9, 2007

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Daniel A. Craft "dac1138" (NYC, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Death Sentence (Mass Market Paperback)

The 1st reviewer WAS right (in a way). Death Sentence (the book) is the sequel to Death Wish (the book). Death Wish II and Death Sentence (the movie) both deviate from the book's plot. Both these books tell the story of Paul Benjamin and NYC accountant who becomes a vigilante after an attack on his family. The first movie changed some character details and name and all subsequent movies follow that plot.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Death wish, death sentence, death period, April 26, 2009

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N. P. Stathoulopoulos "nick9155" (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Death Sentence (Paperback)

Go figure, both Dead Wish and Death Sentence, the sequel, were out of print for ages until the Kevin Bacon film Death Sentence appeared in 2007. So they brought it back in print, slapped a film tie-in cover, and likely duped a few folks who thought it was a novelization or was more related to the new film.

Death Sentence was the Chicago follow-up to Death Wish and has Paul Kersey taking his vigilante act on the road, just as was suggested at the end of the first film. The novel is short and brisk and not very deep, and lacks something the first one had...written almost like a film tie-in.

Either way, since the Death Wish film series entered camp territory with the third one in the 80s, the regular-guy vigilante flick has been cheapo territory. Probably more for fans of the first book than movie, this isn't bad but it's just odd they didn't bring both books back in print.

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Death Sentence is NOT Death Wish, September 6, 2007

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Daniel Quinn (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Death Sentence (Mass Market Paperback)

The previous reviewer of this book is obviously not a very careful reader. "Wish" is not "Sentence." The famous Bronson film was based on DEATH WISH and has no collection with DEATH SENTENCE, which is just out as a film starring Kevin Baoon.