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  • 9781782065753
  • 26 september 2013
  • 480 pagina's
  • -534562
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Philip Kerr

Philip Kerr (1956-2018) werd geboren in Edinburgh en woonde in Londen. Zijn boeken zijn vertaald in zesendertig talen en werden wereldwijd lovend ontvangen. Kerr ontving talloze crimeprijzen.

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A chilling modern horror story in which the source of the horror is totally unexpected - and utterly terrifying.

Special Agent Gil Martins investigates domestic terrorism for the Houston FBI. Once a religious man, now his job makes him question the existence of a God who could allow the violence he sees every day.

Gil is asked to investigate a series of unexplained deaths of victims known for their liberal views.

When a woman tells Gil that these men have been killed by prayer, he questions her sanity. Yet the evidence mounts that there might be something in what she says, even more so when Gil finds that his own life is on the line.

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  • Disappointing

    Gave up on his “Research” after 50 pp and consigned it to a small pile of books for harsh winters. Was it bad? Not really. It was Kerr’s chattiness and hovering between genres that killed my appetite, a pity because earlier writers with fewer skills and digital help succeeded in doing just that.
    In “Prayer” he probes into his own Catholic Scots upbringing via Giles (‘Gil’) Martin, who emigrated from Scotland to the US with his parents in 1990, graduated from Harvard and now works for the FBI in Houston, TX. After years of investigating unspeakable violence, Gil has lost his faith in God and all that comes with it. He has not seen any case of divine intercession, only senseless slaughter and bloody mayhem. Gil fears germs and always carries a gel with him to keep at least his hands clean. The start of a marital crisis with deeply religious wife Ruth begins when he is assigned to a new case whilst also receiving an urgent request from an Irish priest to investigate why his atheist friend and author Philip Osborn has ended in a psychiatric ward, not responding to drugs or therapy. At work Gil to ordered to find an unusual serial killer, one who terminates really good people who have been working abroad or at home for the poor and vulnerable. Priest Coogan gives Gil his Internet files of other, similar cases of people turning suddenly catatonic, immune to treatment.
    Underpinned with plenty of excellent research on Christianity, US law enforcement, IT, Houston and the state of Texas. But also wordy and formulaic, with everyone talking the same aggressive way, full of the f* and s* words and their permutations. [Why so much cliché swearing in a book describing a struggle between faith and atheism?] No doubt written with the best intentions, I myself, not sqeamish by nature decided on p.160, after the taxing, overlong 14th chapter, that I had enough for now. It has joined “Research” on the little winter pile.

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