Searing [Hardcover]

John Coyne (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 223 pages
• Publisher: Putnam Pub Group (T) (August 1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399125477
• ISBN-13: 978-0399125478
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,442,183 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I was 12 when I started to caddie at Midlothian Country Club, south of Chicago, Illinois. At 16 I was promoted to caddie master. Today I still consider that job the most demanding one I ever had. After graduating from Saint Louis University, I served with the first Peace Corps Volunteers in Ethiopia before becoming a novelist and college administrator. I've written over twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, and edited three books on golf instruction. However, this is my first novel about golf, my lifelong passion. If you want to know more about the book or myself, you can check out: www.TheCaddieWhoKnewBenHogan.com.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Decent, June 27, 2009

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Vaughan "Crash" (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Searing (Paperback)

Deety book nerd: Was it really necessary to put a spoiler in your review, and ruin the impact of this book for everyone else? You didn't rate the book - fine, but what you've done is deplorable and juvenile.

To everyone else, I thought this was okay until the admittedly wacky and strange climax. The writing style is breezy, and there is some decent mystery that is wrapped up by the end.

If this is the first review you're reading - DO NOT read the review by "Deety book nerd", since he'll spoil the plot for you.

7 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book is awful!, July 12, 2002

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Donna "book nerd" (Raleigh, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Searing (Hardcover)

A mysterious force is killing little girls in Renaissance Village. It's also giving the women in the area spontaneous orgasms. I'm not joking. That is actually the plot of this book. It's full of badly-written red herrings, wrong science, and a twist toward ancient mysticism at the end. All of the characters are frustrating in one way or another. Oh, yeah, and in the end there's aliens. Reading this book was nearly painful. Don't waste your money.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best Horror Novelist of the 1980s, August 31, 2011

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Keith E. Hammer (Ravensdale, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Searing (Necon Classic Horror) (Kindle Edition)

What book were you reading Donna? I am referring to the review by Donna with one star and the awful write-up. I grew-up reading horror during the 1970s and 1980s and John Coyne was one of the giants in the horror genre. The Piercing and The Searing were definite favorites of mine. I can still remember buying this hardcover at a B. Dalton's bookstore in the San Fernando Valley in California when it was first published. I even have a signed first edition hardcover of The Searing. This novel is definitely worth your time! NECON, the publisher of this e-book is run by Bob Booth, who has an annual convention by the same name, and who re-publishing horror from the heyday of horror - the 1980s. He made an excellent here.