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Sara Labriola is a married woman haunted by the shattering secrets of her past—and terrified of the future. Tired of living in fear—and knowing that if she stays in her marriage she'll be killed—Sara decides to do the only thing she can: she makes herself disappear.
One afternoon, without telling a soul, she packs a single suitcase and leaves her life in Long Island behind. In New York City, she will reinvent herself. She will change her identity, and maybe even get the happy ending she's always dreamed of. But that dream is about to become a nightmare when her father-in-law decides to make her pay for abandoning his son.
Leo Labriola runs his modest but lucrative criminal organization like he does his family—with unspeakable brutality and zero tolerance for disobedience. He's determined to teach Sara a lesson and he'll stop at nothing to do it. Now six differently desperate and dangerous men—each with the power to destroy her—are on Sara's trail. But none of them suspect that the woman they are seeking has a dangerous secret of her own. For Sara is leading all of them down a path of private demons, past sins, and the deadliest peril.
From the Hardcover edition.
- Sales Rank: #1471413 in Books
- Published on: 2005-01-25
- Released on: 2005-01-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.91" h x .84" w x 4.21" l, .34 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 336 pages
From Publishers Weekly
A kaleidoscopic array of viewpoints tumble and shift in this latest suspense thriller by Edgar Award-winner Cook (The Interrogation, etc.), until the facts settle into place and the full picture can be understood. The complex arrangement of voices and events works smoothly, bringing each of the protagonists more clearly into focus as the story progresses. As the novel begins, Sara Labriola is fleeing Tony, her husband of nine years. It's not that she doesn't love him, but Tony's overbearing mobster father, Leo, casts a long shadow over Sara and Tony's marriage. Around the same time, sad sack Mortimer, a broke gambler who owes Leo $15,000, learns he has three months to live. Desperate to discharge his debts and leave a little something for his wife before he dies, he agrees to help Vinnie Caruso, who's following orders from Leo to find Sara. Mortimer turns to the shadowy Stark, an obsessive, tightly wound man who excels at finding people. Stark is haunted by the fate of a woman he found years earlier, and he suspects that this case, too, is not about a loving husband looking for his spouse. Sara, meanwhile, has stumbled into a New York nightclub frequented by Mortimer, where she gets a job as a singer. Cleverly manipulated coincidence provides much of the driving force here, to excellent effect. Although most of the characters are cookie-cutter noir, neat turns of phrase and tight plotting make for an engaging read.
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From Booklist
Edgar Award-winning Cook can be seen as a kind of master puppeteer, tightening complicated lines of suspense around the target puppet, usually an isolated woman with secrets any number of other people want her to die with--and fast. The more the target puppet moves (and Cook's heroines tend to move as far away from their pasts as possible), the more the lines surround and cripple her. Cook's latest follows this formula fairly closely. Sara Labriola lives in a lovely home in a beautiful neighborhood on Long Island, but her past casts long shadows, and her dreams have been splintered by a control-freak husband and his even more pathologically controlling father, a particularly ugly-acting Mob boss. Sara bolts, determined to leave no trace, hoping that New York City can make her invisible. Cook's narrative is couched throughout in extremely short chapters (a three-pager is unusual here). While this spy novel-style shuttling among different characters and locales lends edginess appropriate to a chase story, it can get dizzying and takes away from any real character development. Readers may get lost among the plot strands and, in a novel loaded with bad guys, forget the motivation of each. The dialogue is somewhat barren as well, being limited to the woman in peril's terse communications and the Anglo-Saxonisms of the mobsters. A terrific climax makes most of the above forgivable, however, especially for those who look to thrillers mainly for pulse pounding. Connie Fletcher
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Review
"Probably no other suspense writer takes readers as deeply into the heart of darkness as Cook."
-- Chicago Tribune (Chicago Tribune )
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Who wrote this book?
By Victorio
I've read several of Thomas Cook's books, including THE CHATHAM SCHOOL AFFAIR and RED LEAVES, both well-written, insightful page-turners (putting aside the obvious flaw in RED LEAVES).
Short of a mental breakdown, there is no way the author of the above outstanding novels (and others) could have penned this sophomoric book. Populated by wooden characters; infused with barren description; steeped in empty, simple and inane dialogue; the book reads like the work of a middle-schooler.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Breathtaking work by a true genius
By Larry
Thomas H. Cook is a genius. I do not recall saying that about any other writer I have ever reviewed. There are some fine writers out there whose work is consistently excellent. They are highly regarded by all who read the genre. Writers such as James Lee Burke, Mike Connelly, Dennis Lehane and others who write a superior novel in a style easily distinguished from others. However, Tom Cook not only writes a novel as good as any of the others, but, his style changes from one book to the next. Perhaps this is why he is not as wildly popular as some others. One never knows what to expect. Tom Cook has gone through phases where books consecutively written are somewhat similar in style and tone, such as the great BREAKHEART HILL or the Edgar winning, THE CHATHAM SCHOOL AFFAIR- historical dramas evaluating love and loss. Now he is in a phase of writing modern crime novels.
PERIL concerns Sara Labriola, wife of a mobster's son. She leaves her husband, Tony, to start a new life away from her husband and especially away from her father in law, Leonardo. She lives with fears unknown to us and wants nothing more than to disappear. However, Leonardo refuses to let her run away and insists on having her found and punished. To accomplish this task he enlists his henchman, Caruso. Tony, fearing what his evil father will do to Sara, if found, hires his own man to find her. So the novel becomes a game of several cats and only one mouse.
The novel has a unique structure. It is told from the viewpoint of seven to eight different characters. Initially, each story is unique and quite disjointed. However, as we proceed through the novel, the individual stories get shorter and shorter thereby quickening the pacing and eventually as all comes together in the end flows from one narrative to the next. It is a unique structure and quite ingenious. The only weakness in the novel is the somewhat stereotypic depiction of the evil Leo Labriola and the ludicrous coincidence of Sara's choice of a bar to work in. Truly breathtaking.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Doesn't quite live up to strong opening
By booksforabuck
Sara Labriola has had enough of abuse. Gathering up her courage, she runs away from her husband, his abusive father, and everything she owns. She has a dream of creating a new life in New York--a dream that isn't really formed, doesn't make a lot of sense, and that she doesn't dare believe that she deserves. But one thing is certain--she can't go back to the life she formerly led. Unfortunately for Sara, her father-in-law has other plans. Leo Labriola is a minor mobster who demands respect and knows that a woman's place is exactly where the dominant male puts her. In his family, he is dominant. It doesn't matter that Sara's husband, Tony, wants Sara left alone. Leo intends to have her found--and punished.
Private detective Stark has a recurring nightmare--that he'll lead another killer to his victim. And something about this case doesn't feel right. His nightmare is sending all sorts of warnings, but he trusts his partner and Mortimer is telling him that this is a simple deal. But Mortimer is lying--in debt to the mob for gambling losses and willing to say anything to get himself out of trouble.
Author Thomas H. Cook starts powerfully. Sara's terror, springing from her current situation and from long-past rapes and victimization, is horribly real painful. Leo Labriola's sidekick, Caruso is also well depicted--torn between fear and admiration for the man who took him in and whom, he hopes, will some day make him a made man in the mob--some day trust him to kill.
Cook's strong beginning doesn't quite carry through to the rest of the novel. There is too much coincidence in the discovery of Sara's hiding place and some characters, especially Stark, are just not that interesting. Still, Cook's writing is strong enough to pull the reader in and it certainly kept me engrossed from the fascinating beginning through the foreshadowed but still unexpected end.
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