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Mine

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If you liked Dean Koontz's INTENSITY, you'll love this book which contains many of the same elements including a calculating psychotic killer, and a victim who struggles against insurmountable obstacles .... in this case to rescue her baby from a madwoman. I can't recommend this book highly enough. It is one of the best in this genre, and the characters are drawn superbly. It's a real page turner. I've always judged a thriller by its ability to surprise me at every next page, and this one wins hands down. If I can't guess what's going to happen next, I consider myself entertained. If you enjoy suspense thrillers, you'll love this one.

Incredibly fast-paced thriller that will leave you turning the pages all night long. McCammon is an awesome author, usually tending more towards the traditional monsters, vampires, dead things, ghostly apparitions, and downright evil incarnations; but in `Mine', he has taken on the human monster and painted her with such ferocity that you are left wishing for something fanged and green under your bed.

Mary Terrell is an overweight and aging hippie, unstable and unable to let go of her past. Not the gentle past of flowers and peace and love, but of her persona as Mary Terror, member of the radical and violent Storm Front Brigade led by her old lover, Jack Gardiner, once known as Lord Jack.

Lost in the past and still dropping acid, Mary's last shred of sanity snaps when she kidnaps a baby from the hospital to take to Lord Jack, to replace the baby that was killed twenty years ago when the Storm Front was captured and disbanded.

The baby Mary kidnaps is tiny David Clayborne, newborn to Laura and Doug Clayborne. Just before her delivery, Laura discovers Doug is having an affair, ripping apart her perfect life of happily-ever-after in the suburbs with a BMW.

Laura is beyond desperate when David is discovered missing, and spurred into taking action on her own when the police drag their feet and Doug responds with inept mannerisms and hollow faith in the police.

With only her journalist's background to rely on, Laura leaves the hospital to track down Mary Terror, still weakened from childbirth but determined to get her baby back before Mary inadvertently kills him.

What we are left with is a fingernail-biting chase across three thousand miles, with close calls and near misses and horrific anxiety at every turn. `Mine' literally took my breath away, it was so gripping and tense, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.

WARNING!! First chapter spoiler for the weak of heart. There is a horrifying scene in the first chapter portraying Mary's sickness, in which she tortures a baby. Relax, it's really a doll, but I almost threw the book down because of it. Keep going, the book is well worth the read.

This is only the 2nd book I have read by this awesome writer and I enjoyed it immensely. It was so different than the WOLF'S HOUR but equally as good if not better. The action fans out there (such as myself), will be satisfied with this authors work because it is chock full of action aplenty! Now, its not senseless violence - each action sequence has its purpose and is skillfully done, sometimes frightingly so. This book grabbed me from the first chapter, and it didn't want to let you go. The storyline and characters are 1st rate in my opinion - and I have well over 30-years of experience in reading all genres. This guys the bomb! I have SWAN SONG and GOIN SOUTH next to read - and I can't wait!

This novel has one of the best chase sequences ever written. I don't believe I've ever wanted to do harm to an antagonist as much as I wanted to just jump into this book and kick the hell out of Mary Terror--or at least put my foot out and trip her up a little. And amazingly, I felt a certain sympathy for her all the while. This novel has so much suspence, emotion and intense backstory that it just thrusts the reader right along with the characters (who seem to be constantly and desperately on the run througout). Though there are no "true" monsters or supernatural happenings in this book, any horror fan will not be disappointed. The monster you'll encounter here is more frightening than any you'll meet on the other side. And she'll continue to give you chills decades down the road. (I can still remember the gas station scene, and I haven't touched this book for 15 years--something I'm now absolutely ashamed of.)

This is a juggernaut of a novel. McCammon is one of the best authors out there and crafts a palpable nightmare out of tangable characters. Extreemly hard to put down-exciting, horrific, and suspenseful. MINE delivers the goods.

This book will take you on a trip that you have never been, and the suspense and terror is non-stop. This guy knows how to write a novel that grabs you by the groin, and not let you go. This makes Steven King and the like seem like Hansel and Gretel; the attention is fully paid to the suspense and horror as well as character development - you really feel like you know these people by the end of the novel, and you have skidmarks on you in the process!

Unfortunately, RMC has retired from writing, however his legend is in print - check out all his stuff! 'Mine' is one of his absolute best suspense/terror novels - enjoy with the lights on! The first chapter is enough to make you read on...and on...

This is a well-written thriller that is relentless in its pacing. It will capture the reader's imagination from the beginning. It intertwines the stories of two women, Mary Terrell and Laura Clayborne. Both are women with a mission.

Mary is a radical hippie extremist, who once belonged to a terrorist organization called the Storm Front. She is responsible for several murders, and has been underground for years, living under assumed names, as she is on the FBI's most wanted list. Laura, who played at being a hippie, albeit a peaceful one, is now married and living the life of an upper middle class yuppie in Atlanta, Georgia. Working as a journalist reporting on high society, she is about to have a baby and hopes that it will repair her marriage to Doug, her stockbroker husband. By the time she gets to the hospital, however, and is delivered of a son, whom she names David, the marriage is in its death throes.

Mary, who is not wrapped too tight, had once been desperately in love with the Storm Front's erstwhile leader, Jack Gardiner, who disappeared from sight after a fiery confrontation with the FBI twenty years earlier. She now decides to seek him out and thinks that what will cement their relationship is a baby. Since she is not pregnant, the only way to get a baby is to steal one. It just so happens that Mary goes to the hospital in which Laura is ensconced as a patient. While there, Mary decides that Laura's baby is just the ticket. When Mary steals David from the hospital, she sets in motion a scenario between herself and Laura in which only one of them will survive an encounter. As Laura hunts Mary down, a cross country cat and mouse takes place, and Laura will discover things about herself that she could never have imagined.

This is an exciting, action packed thriller that will keep the reader turning the pages until the very end.

This was a really great book. Any book must hold my interest from the start, or I lose interest. This is a page turner of the highest order, especially if you are a McCammon fan. Highest recommendation.

I have read enough horror and suspense novels over the years that I do not get shocked or scared easily. McCammon's character Mary Terror was a truly scary person. The opening scene she has in the book hooked me until the end. The rest of the book was a close look inside a very sick and screw up mind. The only complaint I would make is the protagonist did not come off as the most likable person. She wasn't bad, but you didn't exactly pull for her with everything you had. You keep reading to get farther inside Mary Terror's head and then you're sorry that you did.

I'm picky about my horror/thrillers. Monsters and fantasy are fun, but realistic stories are what really scare me. Mine is a very plausible, and therefore very frightening tale of a wacko who steals an infant from a hospital shortly after its birth, then runs across the country with it and the baby's distraught mother in hot pursuit. With so many children being abducted in the news lately, this one can hit home whether you've got kids or not. A real goosebump-raiser, page-burner, great read of a book.