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Hunting Fear
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Release Date: 2005-06-28 |
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There's a new psychic on the scene, and he's ready for action: introducing Lucas Jordan, the latest addition to Noah Bishop's crackerjack Special Crimes Unit.
Lucas Jordan has an extraordinary psychic skill that police all over the country find invaluable: he locates missing people. And since being recruited by Noah Bishop for his FBI Special Crimes Unit, Lucas has learned to hone his remarkable ability so that what he does seems little short of miraculous.
He's called in on what appear to be a series of ordinary kidnappings-for-ransom, but almost immediately Lucas realizes the situation is far from ordinary—and more deadly than anything he's ever faced before. Because a brilliant, twisted madman is out to win a sick game, matching his wits against the best hunter he can find: Lucas.
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Kay Hooper is the award-winning author of
Sense of Evil,
Touching Evil,
Whisper of Evil,
Once a Thief, Always a Thief, the Shadows trilogy, and more. She lives in North Carolina where she is at work on the next installment in the Fear series.
From the Hardcover edition.
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I sense you'll enjoy this one!.......2006-12-03
"Hunting Fear" opens as Noah Bishop of the FBI puts together a uniquely skilled team - a group of talented psychics with a variety of extrasensory abilities - to assist in the investigation of crimes that have eluded the efforts of more traditional police techniques. Lucas Jordan, whose specialty is finding lost people by tuning into their emanations of fear and terror, is assigned the task of tracking down a serial kidnapper who demands a ransom and then kills his victims in rather gruesome fashion after he has received the ransom. The team's investigation takes them to Golden, North Carolina, where Jordan crosses paths with Samantha Burke, a former lover also gifted with psychic ability, working as a clairvoyant seer in a traveling carnival sideshow. County sheriff, Wyatt Metcalfe, although a dedicated capable lawman is also clearly a scoffing, cynical disbeliever in the paranormal abilities of the Special Crimes Unit and directs his investigation of the most recent kidnapping towards the staff of the traveling carnival whom he sees as troublemaking itinerant gypsies.
It soon becomes clear that the kidnapper has turned his crime spree into a personal one-on-one game with Lucas Jordan who seems unable to bring himself to face the physical and mental pain necessary to access his psychic talents - mentally touching the terrified victims by accessing their terror and fear of death. The stakes are turned up a notch and the novel careens towards an exciting finish when policewoman Lindsay Graham, Metcalfe's partner and lover, is kidnapped and imprisoned in a glass tank buried deep in a local abandoned mine.
Although not entirely a disbeliever, I started the book and, having finished, remain skeptical. That said, Hooper does a superb job of using the paranormal as a wonderful literary device to create a taut suspense thriller without going completely over the top and entering the realm of the entirely incredible! The plot line, primarily driven by realistic well-crafted dialogue, is fast-paced, easy reading and exciting. Colourful characters become warm-blooded, very real people in the minds of the readers simply by mental extrapolation from the words that come out of their mouths. Wyatt Metcalfe, in particular, is the memorable standout member of the cast in terms of his strength of character, realism, passion and obvious personal growth from the beginning through the climax of the novel. The narrative interludes describing the workings of the psychic phenomena (such as they are currently perceived and understood) are informative and add nicely to the apparent reality of the novel.
No doubt about it ... belief in the paranormal is not a pre-requisite to enjoyment of "Hunting Fear" and it can be recommended to any reader who enjoys their suspense thrillers. Hooper's novels should enjoy equal space on your book shelf with the likes of David Baldacci, Tess Gerritsen, Jonathan Kellerman and James Patterson. I'll look forward to reading "Chill of Fear", the second novel in her three part "Fear" series.
Paul Weiss
GREAT BOOK.......2006-11-03
THIS WAS GREAT BOOK!! COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN, STAYED UP LATE INTO THE NIGHT TO FINISH IT!!
Bubblegum Thriller.......2006-09-04
I like Kay Hoopers books because they are an easy read but would describe them as a bubblegum or lite thriller then than a thriller. They read a lot like Harlequin Intrigue novels with a little thrill, romance and some mystery. This is something I might recommend for a light reader but not for a book hound.
Yet another good Bishop story.......2006-08-17
Kay Hooper continues the intrigue and suspense in her newest set of Bishop books.
Another great thriller by Ms. Hooper!.......2006-05-18
I am a fan of Kay Hooper. I found that Hunting Fear definately stands up to Ms. Hoopers other great thrillers. I am looking forward to reading Chill of Fear.
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So you want to build a hunting club? Beyond notions of acres of game land, a great stone fireplace and an antler-filled lodge, how do you make the dream a reality? Based on years of experience, author, wildlife management consultant, and wildlife habitat and outdoor equipment researcher J. Wayne Fears reveals the step-by-step process of organizing, building, and maintaining a successful hunting club. From club by-laws to game management plans, clubhouse to land aquisition, the Hunt Club Management Guide will be your manual for establishing a pleasant and successful hunt club.
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According to Myers-Briggs test results, 25 percent of the population is introverted. Career experts believe that many introverts know what to do to find a new job, but won't - or can't - do what it takes because they fear talking to strangers, looking foolish, or being rejected.
The Career Coward's Guide to Interviewing helps insecure job seekers combat these fears when facing a job interview. This book analyzes each aspect of a successful interview and provides easy steps for facing self doubts and challenges in a unique and easy-to-tackle format. Readers will learn to think about risk, payoff potential, time to complete, and a bailout strategy for all the obstacles one may face.
Career coach Katy Piotrowski brings her expertise to JIST's brand-new Career Cowards series to help readers sell their qualifications without "bragging", develop courageous responses to tough questions, and have the courage to ask for a better salary offer. While other books certainly give strategies for a successful interview, this is one of the few guides that actually addresses the level of discomfort and awkwardness many people feel when trying to present themselves as an outstanding job candidate.
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It was like I had ESP.......2007-08-15
Hi Katy,
I am working again and it feels great. I am doing engineering again, the thing I love best.
I read your book and did the part about writing down my experiences that related to the job and it worked great. I brought printed copies with me and handed them out to the interviewers.
The interviewers were blown away! As they asked the questions that I had already documented there was no "Ah ya know" or any hesitation on my part answering.
It was like I had ESP, knowing what they were going to ask and having the answers ahead of time.
Thanks,
Gene Madsen
Taking off the blinders.......2007-08-02
Katy,
I've read your book twice I am working on the exercises you outlined and
am getting excited! I just wanted to tell you that this was just what I
needed. Your first example in the book of Kirsten described me exactly. I
knew that I was doing it wrong. I knew that I should be preparing better
for an interview, I just didn't know how. I didn't know what to prepare. I
feel like I've been stuck in bad fits because I didn't know how to
present what I can do. I feel like I get it now! Finally, I understand
what I've been doing wrong. I finally see where the blinders were before.
I already feel my confidence climbing.
Stephanie Farrell
From Career Coward to Career Star! .......2007-06-29
Searching for a job while reading Katy's book boosted my confidence as I started to interview. Her helpful tips were easy to reference at various times during my interview process.
Thanks Katy! My last interview led to a job offer and exciting career.
The Perfect Gift for Your College Senior... Or Anyone Stuck in a Bad Job.......2007-03-21
One of the great truths of life by is that we are victims of our fears, and yet typically we don't even know it. We make all kinds of rationalizations to justify ourselves -- "I have bad luck," "I'm not good enough to work there," "They probably already hired somebody" -- but the reality is that Fear keeps us stuck in place. To paraphrase Tony Robbins, "If there's something you want to do, that you know you're capable of doing, but just can't seem to get around to doing, then Fear is the problem."
Katy Piotrowski's great little book is a roadmap for overcoming the fears inherent in the job search, which may be one of THE most fear-inducing experiences in life (right up there with public speaking, walking down the aisle, and eating raw pig uteruses on Fear Factor!). How many people do you know who constantly whine about how much they hate their job... Who wish they were doing something else, but know it's an impossible dream... Or who are stalled in a job far below their intellectual capacity? This book is the key to their self-imposed prison cell.
But rather than dealing with fear as a pathological condition that needs to be painfully confronted, the author offers countless ideas and examples that can help anyone climb into the driver's seat to a more rewarding career. Too often, self-help books are nothing more than magazine articles that have been puffed up to 200 or more pages just to capitalize on a profit opportunity. This book is the opposite: thorough, comprehensive, and rich with insights and "how to's" on every page. Yet it is a quick read, and Piotrowski's unique mix of expertise and enthusiasm is infectious.
I got a copy of the book for my son, graduating from college in June 07, who's started voicing the "Who's gonna hire an English major?" rationalization. I honestly believe this book will make a difference in his career path, and I feel lucky to have found it as he's just entering the working world.
Given the importance of the right job in leading a satisfying life (not to mention achieving better income) the $10.95 price is short money for this gem.
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As if getting through college wasn't tough enough, now graduates are faced with their first real test-figuring out what career path to pursue and scoring an awesome, rewarding job. No need to sweat it! This guide is packed with brutally honest advice from recent grads and experienced professionals who've been through it and offer their invaluable insights.
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Awesome!.......2005-05-05
I am graduating college in a month and this book is hands-down the best job book i've ever read.
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Scrape hunting, the process of searching out and "reading" the markings left by bucks rubbing their antlers to mark their territory, is one of the truly effective tools in locating whitetails. Fears combines his training as a wildlife biologist and a master woodsman with his impressive writing credentials (having contributed to numerous hunting magazines) to bring us the definitive guide to using scrapes.
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Stars and Stripes in Peril (Stars & Stripes Trilogy)
Harry Harrison
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Harry Harrison has been publishing science fiction for half a century; this novel appears in 2000, the year of his 75th birthday. His 1998 Stars and Stripes Forever was a foray into alternative history at the time of the U.S. Civil War. An opportunistic British invasion is so badly bungled that it unites warring Union and Confederate forces against the common enemy, and the course of events is rousingly changed.
Now it's 1863 and perfidious Albion is making a comeback via the Pacific, establishing a Mexican beachhead and planning attacks on united America's "soft underbelly" in the Gulf of Mexico. Gurkha and Sepoy troops build roads while sweaty white officers express nostalgia for England: "I despair of ever seeing her blissfully cold and fog-shrouded shores again."
An early coup of misdirection makes the British advance seem unstoppable--but America forges ahead with new guns and naval armor, and General Robert E. Lee devises an audacious counterblow. What better way to disrupt Britain's wicked schemes than to strike at her own rebellious province of Ireland?
Harrison, an American, perhaps overdoes the lofty dignity of figures like Abraham Lincoln, while showing British politicians with their full complement of warts. But the breathless, headlong action sweeps you away as the battle is planned and at last joined. Even hardened English patriots will feel a sense of wish-fulfillment at the possibility that America may solve the "Irish Question" for them. This is a rapid-paced, slightly slapdash, and unfailingly energetic adventure in alternate history--all great fun. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk
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"HARRY HARRISON IS ONE OF SCIENCE FICTION’S MOST PROLIFIC AND ACCOMPLISHED CRAFTSMEN."
—The New York Times Book Review
In the midst of Civil War, a stunned North and South join forces to combat a sudden attack of British troops. Though the Americans are victorious, three years later a new threat emerges. Her Majesty’s Army is massing for a possible attack through Texas. Into the gauntlet Lincoln sends his chosen angel of death, General Ulysses S. Grant—while his top soldiers, including Robert E. Lee and William Tecumseh Sherman, plan the most daring naval invasion ever launched: an assault on British soil itself.
Stars and Stripes in Peril is the new masterwork from one of the world’s most provocative authors. Venturing beyond a fascinating question of what if? Harry Harrison brilliantly examines the people and passions that make up nations both great and small—and shows how technology and politics had the power to shape history’s first great World War . . . half a century before it began . . .
"Lovers of novels of alternate history hold Harry Harrison in high regard and his latest book can only enhance that esteem."
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History Continues To Adjust.......2007-01-09
From a single small change in history came a British invasion of the United States and the reunification of Union and Confederacy. The British were driven out, Canada declared its independence from the United Kingdom, and then things settled down for a little while. But Harry Harrison knows his history (unfortunately, he knows his history better than our current gaggle of politicians), he knows that an enemy unconquered is an enemy undefeated. Britain has a new plan: to invade the United States through a politically divided and tumultuous Mexico. How successful have we been at securing our border with Mexico today? Would it have been possible to secure that border in the 1860s? No. A bold counter-invasion is necessary. Considering how many Irish have emigrated to America, considering America's easy access, then, to military intelligence of the Emerald Isle as well as soldiers who are highly motivated to return home in triumph, an American invasion of Ireland is a plausible counter-move to the British presence in Mexico.
Harrison's "Stars and Stripes" series continues to entertain, with stories not too spare in detail, but not bogged down in detail either. Innovative machines of war, which began to appear in reality during the Civil War, are further accelerated by the new threat from Britain, as innovation is always driven by the pressures of war and security. These weapons launch General William Tecumseh Sherman well ahead of his Continental counterparts, and catch them wholly unprepared. He discovers "Lightening War"--Blitzkrieg--quite by accident when he realizes that he can move his troops quickly by train and overwhelm traditional defenses with his modern weapons. Warfare has inadvertently leapt into the 20th century in an eerie precursor of what we all know was to come.
I know the Brits are none-too-fond of this series, and I don't blame them, but these books are fun reading on this side of the pond. Just the alternate-idea of General Robert E. Lee's invasion of northern Ireland is enough to thrill.
How did this get published?.......2006-07-11
Okay.... It started out with a harmless, poorly researched novel that was okay for the non-historian. Now it is just silly. Really, it is too ridiculous to even give credence to. Britons are dumb, the Union is all-powerful, and 1942 clearly wasn't that far from 1862, as the USA seems to have mastered every technological advancement short of air power. I will not even bother with his last book, and I recommend you not bother with this one.
Second in a truly dreadful trilogy.......2006-06-21
I enjoyed everything else I have read from Harry Harrison, and am fascinated by alternative history, so I expected to like the "Stars and Stripes" trilogy. I didn't.
The three books in the series are:
Stars and Stripes Forever
Stars and Stripes in Peril
Stars and Stripes Triumphant.
The starting premise of the first book - Britain blundering into war with the North in the American civil war - is horrifying plausible, which is not surprising as this very nearly happened. However, the author then abandoned any attempt at either a realistic attempt to work through what might have happened, or to look sympathically at how the situation might have developed from the viewpoint of all sides. Instead, looking for a way to turn both the USA and CSA into heroes, he cast the Brits as incompetent and evil cretins who both sides could unite against.
In this second book the principle that the USA and CSA had united against the Brits is already established and Harrison just takes it from there. Given what has previously happened, most of the book is not as ludicrous as the first one - although there are still some pretty silly things - but the basic premise still takes the course of the story too far away from anything which could realistically have happened in our world to work as alternative history.
Harry Harrison is almost the last writer on earth I would have expected to prostitute his enormous talents with such chauvinistic rubbish as the Stars and Stripes trilogy. One-sided nationalism is not usually his style at all, and he has written another book about a set of events which might have changed the course of the US Civil War/War between the States - "Rebel in Time" - which is far superior to this.
For anyone who is looking for a good account of how the American Civil war might have gone wrong, try Harry Turtledove's "The Guns of the South," or "How Few Remain" and the "Great War" and "American Empire" trilogies which follow it. Or indeed Harry Harrison's "Rebel in Time".
Better than the first book..........2004-11-20
Yeah, that kind of surprised me too, till I figured out why - it is no longer based on our REAL history. It has gone so far off track that Harry Harrison can write it anyway he wants and as long as he keeps to the logic and reality he set up in the first book it works. I also loved the scene between John Ericsson and William P. Parrott as well as the scene between Mr. Ericsson and Captain Raphael Semmes.
But most of the book feels rushed and the characters are bland, cut out paper dolls, set up to do certain actions and say certain things for the plot to go in THAT direction.
Anyway, the plot is England and allied European nations invade Mexico. The invasion of the US is just around the corner and Lincoln decides he has to do something about it. So they decide the best way to open a second front and force Britain to withdraw its troops is to invade Ireland.
It sounds simple, but even Mr. Harrison shows that the United States Army and Navy would have a few problems they couldn't foresee.
But after 334 pages you know there is going to be a third book.
Decent Alternate History.......2003-10-01
Like some of the readers here I found this to be an enjoyable but ultimately forgettable read. I have not read the first novel but it was easy to get into this one without having done so. What is strange about the book is that it is not lacking in pages (it's long for a sci fi novel) yet there isn't much detail. Probably because there's so much ground to cover. Yet one comes away with the impression that invading and liberating Ireland would have been extremely simple. Whole battles are resolved in the space of a few sentences. Even the Protestant problem Harrison brings up is dealt with in a matter of a few pages.
There are also a couple of situations where Harrison sets up problems just to lengthen the story. So he offers a ridiculous setup and an even more ridiculous solution. A good example of this is when the secret service agent is following the spy into the tavern, watches him for hours, and then suddenly leaves at the perfect time to "get a bite to eat". Just silly.
Unlike another reviewer I wasn't exactly put off by the dropping of the Jefferson Davis as night rider storyline - it was rather embarassingly foolish. So the ex-president of the Confederacy spends months recovering from a nearly fatal wound to ... put on a hood and ride around with a white trash movement like the KKK? Give me a break. Not to mention that Jefferson lived on the coast in his palacial home (which is still a monument in Biloxi). And he just happens to be the only one shot in the raid? It was all very poorly constructed, and I would have preferred that Harrison make his points about the Freedmans' Bureau and the slowness of the South to change in a more elegant fashion.
Harrison's general attitude towards the South is rather tiresome throughout the novel. Most people come away from Civil War study with the naive opinion that the North was a land full of idealists who wanted to free the slaves, and the South was just a bunch of racist jerks. Not the case. The North was just as complicit in the construction of slave-based economy as the South was, and their plan for the dismantling of that economy was as nonexistent as our exit plan for Iraq. Certainly the system should have gone, but to expect it just to vanish because we suddenly deemed it not right was ignorant. But that's a whole matter in and of itself. It's just tiresome to see the place I grew up continuously misrepresented. I expected more from a Civil War buff like Harrison.
So in the end the book is a sometimes fun ride, but also at times irritating and trite. This edition of the book is also full of some strangely placed punctuation and a number of typographical errors, which only mar the story. But it's definitely better than Harrison's last two "Stainless Steel Rat" entries.
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