Upside Down (Mass Market Paperback)

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Product Description

In the rain-slick streets of New Orleans, a twelve-year-old girl is running out of time. Hours before, Faith Ann Porter hid under a desk while her attorney mother was murdered for photographs that could rock the city. Now Faith Ann is being hunted by a pair of killers with a very powerful boss. Because she has the negatives of the photos her mother died for, Faith Ann has only hours to live–and only one person who can save her....

Winter Massey is an ex—U.S. marshal whose career pitted him against some of the world’s most ruthless criminals. Now Massey is drawn by a horrifying cycle of murder–and the plea of one terrified young girl. But awaiting Massey is a chilling surprise...and an assassin with a secret mission, a secret motive, and the perfect plan....

About the Author

John Ramsey Miller's career has included stints as a visual artist, commercial photographer, advertising copy writer, and photojournalist. A native son of Mississippi, he has lived in Nashville, New Orleans, and Miami, and now resides in North Carolina, where he writes fiction full-time, and is at work on his third Winter Massey thriller, which Dell will publish in 2006.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Dell (June 28, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553583409
• ISBN-13: 978-0553583403
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #784,069 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not Recommended, November 6, 2006

By	Thriller Lover (Las Vegas, Nevada) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

I read a lot of thrillers, and this book is one of the weakest I've read in a while.

UPSIDE DOWN isn't badly written, but has significant plot and character problems. The storyline is ridiculous and grows increasingly absurd as the book progresses. It is based on a huge coincidence that would never happen in the real world. The ending was confusing, anti-climactic and unsatisfying. There are too many characters in UPSIDE DOWN and all of them are two-dimensional and uninteresting.

There are much better suspense novels out there. Look for books by Michael Connelly, Lee Child, John Sanford, Tess Gerritsen, Greg Isles, and Jan Burke. Unlike UPSIDE DOWN, these novels have compelling characters and interesting plots that actually make sense.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Bad out of order, May 19, 2006

By	David W. Nicholas (Montrose, CA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

I read this book before reading his other book with the same main character, Inside Out, and I think that was a big mistake. This book reads very much like a sequel, with allusions to the previous story and characters already limping from bullet wounds suffered before the start of the action.

Winter Massey is a U.S. Marshal, someone who protects witnesses from killers of various sorts. He's apparently already been involved in a very bloody violent case that left him and his best friend, Hank, wounded, and they both are trying to take a break by going on vacation in New Orleans (pre-Katrina). In the middle of their preparations to go, a young female attorney, a relative of Hank's is killed in New Orleans. Seems she represented clients on Death Row, handling appeals for them, and she and a woman she met were killed by killers unknown. The crime was witnessed by her daughter, a 12-year-old with an instinct for survival. The kid runs with important documentation that could blow the lid off a major corruption scandal in the city, even the state, and with her mom's killers on her trail. Once he finds out what's going on, Winter must of course intervene, and stop the killers before they find her.

There are several plot twists in this book, and I'll confess that a few of them left me more than a bit confused. The author moves with ease between various points of view, and frankly that can be confusing also. Other than those two complaints, though, this is a good book and I would recommend it.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Page turner, September 16, 2005

By	John Bowes (Oxford, MA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Good action read. But do we really need more secret organization stuff? Strange to read about New Orleans while Katrina's winds howl.