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Dr. Sarah Stuart, a coolly beautiful Scots parapsychologist who, while working in America, is made an offer she dare not refuse - for a Presidential request, carefully conveyed by a senior figure in Naval Intelligence, is an order. Operation Endor, she is told, concerns the urgent debriefing of a mind of great evil and depravity, but with unequaled access to secret, globally important information. Operation Endor needs her. Her orders are to raise the ghost of a dead Russian defector.
- GenresHorror
272 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1984
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November 6, 2017
A thoroughly readable curate's egg of a novel that veers wildly between the genres of the techno-thriller, cold war spy drama, and explicit supernatural horror.
The tonal shift between the unorthodox Michael Crichtonesque science team engaging in long expository passages of dialogue concerning the scientific aspects of EVP and Psychokinesis, and scenes such as the one in which our heroine is apparently possessed and subjected to an Exorcist-style sexual violation with a glass soft-drink bottle are abrupt to say the least. Likewise, the sudden emergence of a tertiary barely-mentioned support character who suddenly steps to the fore as an action heroine to save the day in the novel's closing chapters.
In terms of pacing, one can't help but think that the author wanted to write a much longer, more contemplative novel but was ultimately probably restricted by the standard NEL two-hundred-and-fifty-page-and-change format of the time. It's a pity because although I enjoyed it for what it was, there was an honest-to-god gem of a novel here for the taking given the concept and the depth of the author's research and knowledge.
The tonal shift between the unorthodox Michael Crichtonesque science team engaging in long expository passages of dialogue concerning the scientific aspects of EVP and Psychokinesis, and scenes such as the one in which our heroine is apparently possessed and subjected to an Exorcist-style sexual violation with a glass soft-drink bottle are abrupt to say the least. Likewise, the sudden emergence of a tertiary barely-mentioned support character who suddenly steps to the fore as an action heroine to save the day in the novel's closing chapters.
In terms of pacing, one can't help but think that the author wanted to write a much longer, more contemplative novel but was ultimately probably restricted by the standard NEL two-hundred-and-fifty-page-and-change format of the time. It's a pity because although I enjoyed it for what it was, there was an honest-to-god gem of a novel here for the taking given the concept and the depth of the author's research and knowledge.
November 1, 2012
If anyone has a ratty old paperback copy of this, then get in touch and I'll take it off your hands. A classic.
Does anyone know what happened to Raymond Hawkey? I thought he was destined for the very top (he reminds me of someone like Robert Bloch), but after Wild Card, he seemed to disappear.
Its a long time since I read this, but I remember reading it in one sitting and being blown away. Love to read it again - so the rating you see above is somewhat rose tinted!
Does anyone know what happened to Raymond Hawkey? I thought he was destined for the very top (he reminds me of someone like Robert Bloch), but after Wild Card, he seemed to disappear.
Its a long time since I read this, but I remember reading it in one sitting and being blown away. Love to read it again - so the rating you see above is somewhat rose tinted!
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