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For more than twenty years, in nearly a score of best-selling crime novels, Stephen White's stories of Boulder psychologist Alan Gregory have captivated millions. Now, Compound Fractures provides a riveting last chapter to the series.
In Line of Fire, Dr. Gregory found himself assailed by danger from every direction as he struggled with circumstances beyond his control. Authorities were closing in on Alan and his friend Sam Purdy for their roles in a woman's death years earlier. Alan was struggling to deal with the emotional breakdown of his longtime friend Diane after she discovered evidence of her husband's infidelity. By the end, Alan's personal life and his career were in danger of complete collapse.
But Line of Fire merely set the stage. In Compound Fractures, Alan is forced to acknowledge that the perils that may bring him to his knees are not the dangers he recognizes, nor are they orchestrated by the nemesis he has long feared. Instead he is confronted by unexpected threats from unanticipated adversaries and by intimate betrayal from those who have been closest to him. He is compelled to reconsider what he has long believed about trust and about love while he is trying to cope with overwhelming loss and grief.
To protect himself, Alan must revisit the cruel ethical dilemma that turned his life upside down as a young psychologist. He has to judge whether the people reentering his life after long absences are friends or foes. He has to make sense of echoes of distant tragedies while he decides if there is anyone he can really trust. And as the clock ticks down, he must solve a deadly mystery in Eldorado Springs that has been brewing for more than a decade.
At times full of pathos, at other times replete with White's distinctive wry humor, Compound Fractures delivers the entrancing characters, the suspense, the intricately plotted story lines, and the unexpected twists that read...
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- Listening Length: 15 hours and 51 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Brilliance Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: August 20, 2013
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00E6ATXIK
Epub Compound Fractures: Dr. Alan Gregory, Book 20
Let me start by saying that I've always enjoyed this series, but I've also always found the series to be uneven in pacing. Some books are excellent and every character is detailed enough for a stand alone novel. Others are so cluttered with miscellaneous and misleading details and subplots that it's hard to imagine it's the same author writing these books. The last two books in the series tie up a lot of loose threads, but much is left unanswered. Like life, I guess.
Highlights: Sam's growth as a character is awesome. Really, he has to be one of the best sidekicks in mystery fiction. Alan's regression to a less mature, less grounded, less honest, less confident man is another highlight. I like the fact that the sins of previous books come back with no easy answers. It's rare for an author to risk making a main character (and in this book, a few main characters) exhibit so many startlingly bad qualities. I liked the honesty in that. Grief brings out the best in just about no one. Certainly no one in this series.
Lowlights: Some huge issues are left unresolved. Without giving away too much, there is a rushed quality to some big questions that are never really answered. Of course, not all questions can be answered, but this book leaves a lot unanswered. It's particularly unsatisfying when one of the characters, central to the last book, is in and out in less than a chapter. The therapeutic relationships are sparsely detailed here (a nice change actually), but a little more detail would have fleshed out some of the bigger plot holes. I can't say more without spoiling the ending, but the book ends on a discordant note. One huge issue is solved, probably permanently with one conversation, so the ending feels dishonest.