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by David Ambrose

ISBN: 0743489926
ISBN13: 978-0743489928
Language: English
Publisher: Pocket Books (March 1, 2004)
Pages: 432
Category: Action and Adventure
Subategory: Literature

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FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Parapsychologist Sam Towne believes that ghosts come from the human mind, not from beyond.

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He is married to artist Laurence Ambrose and lives in Switzerland.

Huddling beneath the old umbrella that he had found in the trunk, they hurried down tree-lined walks between the neo-Georgian carved-stone buildings of the campus. On the second floor of one of them. Sam knocked at a door, and a crisp voice called out, Enter. Spry was the word that came to Joanna's mind to describe Roger Fullerton. He wore an immaculate three-piece suit in excellent tweed and sported a white mustache with a waxed twirl at the ends.

David Ambrose Ambrose (Superstition; The Man Who Turned into Himself) weaves a tale of duplicitous doppelgengers in this supernatural thriller.

From the critically acclaimed author of The Man Who Turned Into Himself and Superstition comes a truly bizarre and mind-twisting tale of murder, suspense, and coincidence. Ambrose (Superstition; The Man Who Turned into Himself) weaves a tale of duplicitous doppelgengers in this supernatural thriller. George is a quiet academic writing pseudoscience books for fun, supported by his rich, gallery-hopping wife, Sara.

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Read unlimited books and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. David Ambrose read law at Oxford and has worked internationally in theatre, film and television. Critical acclaim for David Ambrose. Writes with verve and lucidity, carrying the reader with him every step of the way’ The Times. The suspense is so good it’s almost painful’ Sunday Express.

I felt, however, that the book weakened towards the end. Читать весь отзыв. Пользовательский отзыв - Kirkus. Still another hypnotic paranormal thriller from the Great Ambrose (Mother of God, 1996; The Man Who Turned Into Himself, 1994, et. that, once again, will drag you unfailingly into the small hours.

0 5 Author: David Ambrose. Having exposed a group of fraudulent spiritualists, investigative journalist Joanna Cross is intrigued by the claims of psychologist Dr Sam Towne that paranormal phenomena do in fact exist. Accepting his challenge to enter into a scientific experiment to 'create' a ghost, Joanna, Sam and six volunteers bring to life 'Adam Wyatt' - a young American living in France after the American War of Independence.

Having exposed a group of fraudulent spiritualists, investigative journalist Joanna Cross is intrigued by the claims of psychologist Dr Sam Towne that paranormal phenomena do in fact exist. Accepting his challenge to enter into a scientific experiment to 'create' a ghost, Joanna, Sam and six volunteers bring to life 'Adam Wyatt' - a young American living in France after the American War of Independence. Associated with the great minds and mystics at the close of the eighteenth century, he dies tragically in the French Revolution. The experiment is a great success, with poltergeist activity and disembodied messages all scientifically recorded. Sam's theory appears conclusive - that ghosts are created by the people who see them. But a series of inexplicable and ominous events force Joanna and Sam to realize the ghost they have brought to life can also cause death...

Comments:

Gavinranara

WOW!!!!!! I would really love to discuss this book with different people and get their takes on "what just happened"? This book is captivating, can't put it down, you think you know what is going on - but do you? Without spoiling the book by telling you what goes on - all I will say is my cousin and I read the book together and she couldn't figure it out. I actually couldn't either; however, I kept pondering over it like a sliver stuck in my hand that needed to come out yet I couldn't get to it. Finally I came to a conclusion!!!!!! explained it to my cousin and she could see my resolve and accept it. phew!!!! Now that makes an excellent read! Have you read this??? Let me hear your theories............

Jothris

I stumbled upon this novel when I was searching for thrillers that were suspenseful and genuinely creepy, and this book certainly meets (and exceeds) those criteria.

I won't rehash the plot, because others have done such a good job of detailing it. I have to say, though, that the subject matter is certainly provocative, in that it explores the genesis of ghostly encounters and stories by focusing on the power of the mind in terms of first creating and then actually manifesting entities and energies. It becomes even more interesting when people lose control of their creation, and then have to contend with reality as they know it irrevocably changing as a direct result of what they've done.

Ambrose interweaves typical ghost- and poltergeist- story threads with philosophy and physics, as he details how events in the present change the past, which ultimately serves to actually alter the present. It is definitely confusing when Ambrose begins his foray into this line of thought, but it quickly begins to not only make sense, but also becomes quite disturbing.

The novel isn't perfect - there are some slow parts, as well as times when the narrative becomes a bit too rambling. That said, the vast majority of the book is compulsively readable, and includes a love story or two; ghost/poltergeist activity (complete with Ouija boards); fraudulent psychics; curses; incompatible realities; murders; and fascinating discussions about everything from French history to the laws governing the universe. Above all, Ambrose conveys a sense of dread from early on in the novel that builds significantly with the turning of each page.

It's a great, scary, suspenseful book that was extremely difficult to put down. This will definitely fit the bill for anyone who enjoys thought-provoking thrillers and/or ghost stories.

Boraston

Parapsychologist Sam Towne runs a research facility that conducts investigations into paranormal anomalies--observable instances of psychokinesis, the movement of matter through psychic power. When he meets Joanna Cross, a staff writer for the magazine Around Town who has just published an article exposing a couple of mind-readers as con artists, an interesting group project suggests itself: Sam and Joanna decide to enlist volunteers to help them conjure up a ghost. The phantom they have in mind is not your run-of-the-mill, graveyard-haunting variety, but rather a thought-form that the group members will hallucinate into being, after extensive research into the time period from which their ghost hails, and after creating for him an elaborate back-story. The problem is, once you will something into being, it may not be eager to give up the ghost, as it were, when you'd like it to.

David Ambrose's thriller Superstition is intelligent and genuinely scary in parts, and its conclusion, despite being hinted at in a prologue, is impossible to figure out in advance. Part Jack Finney's Time and Again (a book the characters in Superstition in fact discuss), part ghost story, the book--if not offering the sort of suspense that will keep you glued to the pages all night--is well worth the read.

Reviewed by Debra Hamel, author of Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece

Whiteflame

A clever plot and evocative story. The premise of "creating" a ghost is interesting. The consequences that occur in this novel are hair-raising. If the late Rod Serling were still alive, he would want to turn this into an episode of Twilight Zone.

Malodred

I admit, the book took quite a while to arrive, but after reading just a few pages, it was definitely well worth the wait, since the story was already starting out pretty well, and the moment I started reading it, I honestly couldn't stop, I ended up finally putting the book down by chapter 8, and picked it up again a few hours later.
Overall, this book is written very well, and it really does tend to get a bit unsettling after once you get to the darker part of the story.

Pad

It is simply the best book I ever read. I have read it three times and every time it has me biting my nails.

Loni

Amazin easy to read book, if you like some suspense tangled in quatum theories this is the book for you, great ending

Takes far too long to get going, and when it does you find out it's a mediocre love story crossed with a mediocre ghost story. The "ghost" doesn't seem very frightening, even though it supposedly is killing a lot of people.

Boring.