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Hard Rain

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A convoluted thriller which several sub-plots. Strangely this book did not grab me like other Peter Abrahams' books have done, and I can't quite put my finger on why. Having just read another review, I see that the reader did not understand the plot at all, even to the point of naming certain characters to be people whom they were not. Anyway, I finished the book with a certain disappointment - it just did not live up to my expectations. I still intend to read all his other books that I can get my hands on as the ones that I have read have been really gripping.

Convoluted and evasive right down to the wire, Hard Rain by Peter Abrahams is a bleak yet thrilling study in what happens when a woman marries a man she knows nothing about. With switched identities, retiring FBI agents, politics and a background involving Woodstock, Peter Abrahams has written a cautionary tale with more bangs for the buck than any recent book I've read. Very highly recommended.

The main character's ex-husband is an ex-prisoner and and "60's" rock star who goes insane after everything that happened to him starts to take effect on him mentally. Jessie, the main character's, daughter Kate is kidnapped by her father. Who has multi identities, as Boa Dai and Pat Rodney just to name a couple, then Jessie's best friend Barbara a lawyer is murdered by a hit and run which seem's to be Pat who was driving the car. Jessie goes on through all the police investigations, which lead no where, and decides to find Kate herself. Looking through Pat's home and belonging's leads to a strange message on the kitchen blackboard that is written in French and German. This same message was recorded on Pat's answer machine butgot cut off half way through the message. She goes to Vermont talking to Pat's old friend's from the sixties, and a used-car salesman who tells her he seen her daughter and Pat a week ago. Becoming more anxious and losing hope every minute that goes bye, she finally finds him in a senator's home. The senator happened to be the husband of Pat's mother, who turns out trying to kill him and Kate and whoever gets in way. Jessie and the police scramble to get there before he kills anyone and successfully shot him down after a long gun chase through the snowy woods. In my opinion, this book was partially good, because the kidnapping and the killing were intense, but the traveling around and talking to Pat's old friends was dumb. Jessie should have never allowed Pat to take Kate away for the weekend, he was always a cocaine user before she met him and the drugs and his attitude got worse over the years. The book is all right and really strange mixed uo through the entire story.