A Mysterious Review of Hollow Man by Mark Pryor. A Novel of Suspense.
Review summary: This is a very strange crime novel, and not all that appealing or exciting or even suspenseful. Maybe it's because the central character, the titular "hollow man", is the narrator, clueing the reader in on everything he's thinking and planning. Or maybe it's because the whole story just doesn't come together well. (Click here for text of full review.)
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Hollow Man
Mark Pryor
A Novel of Suspense
Seventh Street Books (September 2015)
Publisher synopsis: Dominic is a prosecutor, a musician, and an Englishman living in Texas. He's also a psychopath.
His main goal is to hide his condition and lead a seemingly normal life in hopes to pay off his debts and become a full-time musician in Austin's club scene. But on one lousy day his carefully-controlled world starts to shatter: he's demoted at work and accused of stealing a fellow musician's song.
He also meets a beautiful woman in a lime green dress — perhaps the biggest threat to his safety of all. At her urging, Dominic hatches a plan to steal a van he knows will be filled with cash. He picks two friends as accomplices, insisting on no guns and no violence. But a security guard catches them in the act and simple theft turns into capital murder.
Cracks start to show in the conspiracy and, with no allegiance to anyone but himself, Dominic has to decide whether to stick by his partners in crime, or let his true nature come out to play.
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