Redeye [Hardcover]

Richard Aellen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 20, 1988

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Though fast-paced and generally entertaining, this latest thriller with an international setting brings together some overused themes in suspense fiction. Paul Stafford, an investigative journalist at the Washington Herald , has been having nightmares in which he commits murder. Like any writer with good material, he turns his dreams into stories, even including the names of the victims. But when the CIA shows up at his office and his German-born mother makes a confession, he starts suspecting the source of his dreams: the twin brother he never knew, who was given away as a baby in Germany and supposedly was killed after the war, is not dead after all, but communicating telepathically. Worse, he's an agent of East Germany's equivalent of the KGB, and has aligned with a faction that hopes to put an end to glasnost by assassinating the Soviet Union's new general secretary during a visit to Washington. Aellen's first espionage novel certainly keeps the reader involved, the dialogue is crisp and lifelike, but the device of contrasting the good and evil twins has rather lost its ability to thrill. 100,000 first printing; $100,000 ad/promo; paperback rights to Bantam; BOMC alternate
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Seven astronauts return from space to find a drastically changed Earth inhabited by humans who have forgotten the rudiments of civilization, living instead as savage tribal groups in a constant state of war. The author of The Coconut Book unravels his grim mystery in this dark parable of humankind's headlong rush toward progress. For large collections. JC
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 374 pages
• Publisher: Dutton Adult; First Edition edition (September 20, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556110820
• ISBN-13: 978-1556110825
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,616,427 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid Mistery, April 7, 2002

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John G. Hilliard (Toronto Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Redeye (Mass Market Paperback)

This is another solid work by this author. I kept interested through out the full book. The plot is very well put together and you believe each twist and turn. This author always writes an easy to read novel and this is no exception. My favorite from him is Crux.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very good, February 9, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Redeye (Mass Market Paperback)

A book of mystery and conspiracy. Holds you the entire way through. Brothers each unaware of the others existence. They come together in a very different family reunion.

2.0 out of 5 stars Twin thriller falls to satisfy..., May 15, 2004

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Peter LaPrade (worcester ma) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Redeye (Thorndike Large Print Popular Series) (Paperback)

"Redeye" by Richard Aellen had a good idea on paper. Good American journalist tries to stop evil twin, who happens to be a communist, from carrying out his evil plan, in this case, an assasination. However, it didn't quite work out that way. The journalist was the only really fully developed chatcter. His ignored wife Joanna is simply one note, and Karl, his evil twin, has no redeemable qualities. Add a slightly bonkers CIA psychologist to the mix, and you have quite a muddled, and actually quite boring story. Yes, there are a few thrills, seeing Mark escape the East Germans is one. Another is the scene at the hospital near the end where Mark is in a battle agaisnt time to save Joanna. Reading this now makes you realize how dated this book was.