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SHATTERED Paperback – July 2, 1991

by Richard Neely (Author)

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Eight months after being horribly disfigured in a car accident, Dan Marriott has his face rebuilt by plastic surgery, but he must still struggle with an amnesia that could mean his death as he is stalked by an unknown killer

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45 pages
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English
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Vintage
Publication date

July 2, 1991
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5.25 x 0.5 x 8 inches
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0679734988
ISBN-13

978-0679734987
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage; Reissue edition (July 2, 1991)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 45 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0679734988
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0679734987
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.5 x 8 inches

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saw the movie also liked the book. Judy Larson

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Love it. Better than the movie!

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My Uncle Dick wrote this story and I was happy to have a recording of it. Shipment was quick.

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Amnesia, Fog, Distrust, & Bitterness

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 20, 2015

Shattered by Richard Neely, which was originally published in 1969 as The Plastic Nightmare is a terrific noir psychological thriller of a novel that takes place in a fog-shrouded Marin County where ala Postman Always Rings Twice married couple is pitted against each other in a world of distrust and suspicion. At its heart is an oft-used pulp plot involving amnesia such as Donald Hamilton used in 1954’s Night Walker. Amnesia is a classic pulp novel device and Neely uses it well here.

Dan Marriott had a New Years’ Eve accident on a foggy highway, with his wife thrown from the car, and he barely escaping death and ending up in a Santa Barbara hospital for plastic surgery and months of trying to recover from amnesia, not even recognizing people or anything. As he recovers and is brought back to his old life, he begins to get clues that things might not have been as accidental as he was led to believe. The couple has separate rooms with locks on the doors. There are hints of extramarital affairs, of possible threats of divorce, of private detectives, and more. Was it an accident or did Judith plot something more sinister with a secretive man who seems to be lurking in the background?

What is great about the novel is how Neely takes us into Dan Marriott’s mind as he tries to put the pieces together without anyone finding out how much he is putting together. As the reader, you feel his puzzlement and his suspicions. You also feel the growing tension an distrust between Dan and Judith as they spar with Dan always in the dark about what really happened or has he just lost his mind.

Although there have been several movies made based on this novel, none of them manage to capture the tension between all of the major players or the mysterious, winding, fog-shrouded world of Marin County where dreams and reality all seem to merge together in the foggy mist.

This is a terrific novel and fits well into the world of pulp that Black Lizard republished in the 1980’s. I recommend this and look forward to perusing anything else Neely wrote.

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Michael G.

Psychological thriller.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 30, 2011

Dan Marriott, a wealthy stockbroker involved in a bad marriage, has a near fatal car accident which erases his memory and wrecks his facial features. A skilled plastic surgeon is able to restore his face but even on returning home some eight months after the accident, he has no first hand knowledge of his own life. Everything he knows about himself is based on what others have told him.

Dan finds reason to believe that his wife, Judith, has been less than candid with him and is hiding a deep dark secret involving another man. With the help of the local sheriff and a private eye named Gus Klein, Dan learns that his very life may be in danger.

At its essence, Shattered is a psychological thriller whose complex plot centers on the shocking duplicity displayed by Judith Marriott. The concept behind the novel is a good one but the execution could have been better handled. Author Richard Neely stretches credulity to the breaking point as one far fetched plot element after another is employed to bring the storyline full circle.

All in all, a somewhat disappointing mystery worthy of a 3 star rating. No more, no less.

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