false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174270842m/375118.jpg 375118 11 Billy Bishop, the Russian-born adopted son of a billionaire, has all the classic signs of a sociopath, but before he's arrested for the murder of Darwin and Julia Bishop's infant daughter, his half sister, Nantucket police chief North Anderson wants another opinion. Frank Clevenger, the forensic psychiatrist evaluating Billy, isn't convinced of the teenager's guilt, especially when he learns that Darwin has been abusing Billy for years. The victim of his own father's abuse, Frank has difficulty maintaining appropriate emotional boundaries in his dealings with the Bishops--not just with Billy, but also with Julia, who becomes his lover. All the loose ends in this tidy little psychological thriller are tied up a bit too neatly, and the denouement comes as no surprise to anyone except perhaps Frank himself, who's a little too quick to abandon his professional objectivity. Keith Ablow, a forensic psychiatrist like his protagonist, has used his medical background before (<I>Denial</I>, <I>Projection</I>), but in his effort to make the defenses and motivations of the characters in this novel completely comprehensible to his readers, he sacrifices its subtlety and diminishes its suspense. <I>--Jane Adams</I> 364988 2002 Compulsion (Frank Clevenger) total:114|5:23|4:50|3:33|2:7|1:1| 114 429 170 15 3 1 false false Sun Apr 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 19 00:53:16 -0800 2007 Sun Apr 27 15:25:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Oct 27 02:29:54 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 02:38:19 -0700 2009 1
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