false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183563023m/1434156.jpg 376915 7 Vanessa Kohler wakes from a sound sleep in a California lakeside mansion to find her host, a young Congressman, near death--he's been tortured, his safe is wide open--and the man who seems to have attacked him, is about to flee the house, is Carl Price, someone she once loved. Missing are the documents that prove Vanessa's father, the General, runs a covert military unit of assassins who answer only to him. Once the General arrives on the scene and hustles her off to a mental hospital where she's held for more than a year, her charges are dismissed as the rantings of a crazy woman. A decade later Carl Price reappears, caught in an incident at a Little League game in Oregon that briefly makes the national news and thus brings him to Vanessa's notice again. But by now she's a tabloid reporter, so even those who don't know about her stint in the asylum won't take her charges against the General seriously. And Carl Price may have killed the Congressman, but he's the only person who can prove that the Unit exists; if Vanessa doesn't get him before the General has him killed, he'll never be able to corroborrate her story, and the General may well be elected President.<p> Vanessa's a more interesting, if less likeable and engaging heroine than Ami, the woman lawyer who tries to help the man she knows as Dan Morelli, a.k.a. Carl Price, who makes beautiful furniture, lives comfortably in the apartment over her garage, and is a surrogate father to her young son. But the official records of Carl Price reveal a whole other side of her friend and client, and when the psychiatrist to whom Dan has also revealed his alter identity and the General's secret is tortured and killed in the same way the Congressman was, she's not certain whom to believe. The complicated plot is a little over the top, but Margolin drives his thriller to its bloody denouement with the same fast pace and velocity that will probably drive it to the bestseller list, just like his previous books. <I>--Jane Adams</I> 366759 2005 Lost Lake total:232|5:1|4:3|3:5|2:0|1:0| 232 810 325 28 4 0 false false Mon Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jun 04 21:02:35 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 21:02:58 -0700 2009
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Philip Margolin's latest book, Lost Lake, is an intriguing read with plenty of conspiracies and violence. The story revolves around a member, Carl Rice, of a secret governmental "Unit" set up during Vietnam that engaged in illegal drug running a...more...]]> 4 0 false true Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Feb 05 11:46:52 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 11:50:55 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Sat Apr 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 10:49:48 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 10:52:48 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 08:15:23 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 08:15:44 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sat Aug 29 07:29:45 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 07:30:06 -0700 2009 ]]> 5 0 false false Fri Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 18 17:00:16 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 17:00:56 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 22 09:06:43 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 03 08:40:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 06:01:20 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 12:26:59 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 15 08:12:36 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 15 09:30:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jun 01 15:13:16 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 15:13:31 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 02 09:15:47 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 07 07:16:28 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 29 17:47:58 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 17:50:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Jul 19 18:47:42 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 18:50:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Apr 25 13:44:48 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 25 13:45:24 -0700 2008

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There were a few typos in the book, something I have noticed lately with Harper Collins. I guess they are saving money by not proof-reading.]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Sep 14 12:38:10 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 17 06:09:35 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Wed Feb 18 21:23:36 -0800 2009 Sat Jul 19 11:31:03 -0700 2008 Wed Feb 18 21:23:36 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Mar 10 16:55:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 10 16:57:28 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1434156