Ripper [Import] [Paperback]

Michael Slade (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd; New Ed edition (April 20, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0340617799
• ISBN-13: 978-0340617793
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,342,827 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars GUTT WRENCHING! DISTRUBING! AN EXCELLENT READ!, February 1, 1999

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This review is from: Ripper (Paperback)

I borrowed this book from my brother who has never read it still to this very day. At the time, I was looking for a good scare. I scanned his vast array of novels and found Ripper. After reading the back cover, it sounded psychotic. I started reading and was instantly drawn into the world of Slade. I was amazed by the crisp storytelling and couldn't help but wonder what a great film this book would make. It was dark, distrubing and cruel. Much like Seven my favorite movie. After reading this novel, I can honestly say I was afraid to sleep much less, look out the window. Purely haunting. I'm determined to find all of Slade's books. Although, I have a few, I still lack some. It's too bad most are no longer in print or extremely hard to find. I gave it four stars because, at times the story dragged some and seemed to be going nowhere, but then it would pick back up again in no time. The last couple chapters are the best in the book. Or better yet, the whole island trip was the greatest part. Lots of carnage and mystery. If you have the chance to read Ripper I advise you to pick it up & continue reading. It gets deeper and deeper with each coming chapter. I await the next book by Slade, it will be a killer!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars BUT THE KITCHEN SINK, July 21, 2001

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Michael Butts (Berkeley Springs, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ripper (Paperback)

I gotta hand it to Michael Slade's "Ripper." There's enough plot lines and stories going on in this book, it could be two or three books in one! And one can't help but admire his blatant rip-off of Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None." The whole thing on the island mystery murder trip is a novel in itself, and Slade pulls the stops out on the way he disposes of the writers who have come there. Ironically, the killer's identity follows very similarly the path of Ms. Christie's classic, so don't be too surprised when the identity is revealed. With that said, what can one say about a book that features not only this, but two gruesome serial killers, a devil cult that goes back many years, witches, sadism, bestiality, and some of the most descriptive gore and sexual perversion ever captured on ink. Whew! This book does demand a lot of bending the rules. Give it to Slade, though. It's good, and well developed. The characters of LeClerq, Craven and Zinc Chandler are exceptional. Of course, since this is a series, this thriller leaves some storylines unfinished, but hopefully they will be resolved in his next one. This is my first Slade; Some of his earlier works are very hard to acquire, but I do have the follow-ups to "Ripper" so I'm anxious to see if he maintains his bold approach to the genre.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Special X #4 is a tribute to the greats from the greatest., November 25, 2005

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PohlSE (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ripper (Paperback)

If Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr had a child together that child would be Michael Slade.

Ripper is the fourth in Michael Slade's incredible Special X series and it is just that; a tribute to Christie and Carr.

Special X is too busy investigating a series of gruesome murders to give a lot of attention of a gathering of the world's greatest mystery writers but, when the writers start getting murdered in impossible ways and by maniacal methods, the lone representative of the RCMP must try to survive long enough to discover the mystery of the Ripper.

Michael Slade, the best selling author of 11 Special X novels to date, crafted a mystery masterpiece with Ripper, a loving, blood soaked tribute to Christie's "And then there were none," and Carr's "The Three Coffins." Slade deals out this ever-twisting story like a three-card-Monte dealer; constantly daring you to solve the riddles, and then delighting in proving you wrong.


Diabolical, gruesome, twisted, and brilliant, Ripper is one for the record books.

Michael Slade has done it again.