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    Audiobook21 hours

    Mortal Fear

    Written by Greg Iles

    Narrated by Eric G. Dove

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    About this audiobook

    By day, Harper Cole trades commodities over the internet from his isolated Mississippi farmhouse. At night, he is systems operator of E.R.O.S., an exclusive, sexually explicit on-line service that guarantees total anonymity to its rich and famous clientele.

    But now someone has penetrated E.R.O.S.'s state-of-the-art security...someone who has brutally murdered six celebrated women. Each time, the weapon and the city are different. And each time, the killer has claimed the same horrifying trophy.

    For Harper Cole, who has suddenly become the prime suspect, there is only one way to lure the elusive madman into the open. But Harper Cole has dangerous sexual secrets of his own. His daring plan will place everything and everyone he loves in the path of a brilliant, unstoppable killer...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJan 15, 2010
    ISBN9781441811509
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    Mortal Fear
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    Greg Iles

    Greg Iles spent most of his youth in Natchez, Mississippi. His first novel, Spandau Phoenix, was the first of thirteen New York Times bestsellers and his new trilogy continues the story of Penn Cage, protagonist of The Quiet Game, Turning Angel, and #1 New York Times bestseller The Devil's Punchbowl. Iles' novels have been made into films and published in more than thirty-five countries.

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    • 4/5
      If you like psychological suspense and you're familiar with the Internet (of course you are; you're here, aren't you? ) you will eat this novel! Harper Cole runs EROS, an online sex chatroom service, and begins to suspect foul play when women customers begin to disappear from the service but haven't cancelled their expensive subscriptions. He discovers one of the women has been brutally murdered and suspects the killer is also an EROS client.

      The dialogue is excellent, the storyline makes it almost impossible to put down, and the characters are well defined. And some of his descriptions of emotions and human nature were enough to make me stop and marvel at how good this guy is.
    • 4/5
      I liked the last one [Dead Sleep] so much, I had to have another one. That's why I call them Twinkies. So, yep, another hit. Graphic violent deaths of upper crust females traipsing around the EROS cyber-sex site. The catch is that it is so exclusive (expensive), that ladies of fame and fortune feel safe carousing among like-minded romantics or pervs and letting it ALL hang out. Well, lo and behold, a brain surgeon (one would have to be, you'd think) got a hold of the master list of clientelle and their pertinent and very personal information. So Doc and his exotic Asian super-freaky killer Mrs. are running around the country wooing and brutally slaying the rich and famous lust vessels. Good buds Miles the brain (and creator of said site) and Harper (the nice guy who's married to a great OBG/YN), are two main sys ops and overseers of EROS. Hence, they are FBI"s faves for suspects. To save themselves and EROS they concoct an elaborate plan to trap the killer, but in the process they make themselves and their loved ones bait for psycho killer. Elaborte and suspenceful this is a major nailbiter.
    • 5/5
      Scary book, couldn't stop reading. Iles writes books that are so addictive!
    • 4/5
      From the same author that brought us Trapped (made into a movie with Charlize Theron and Kevin Bacon) comes a really riviting tale. I don't know what I was expecting from this book. I wasn't too impressed after reading Trapped, but when I saw it for $1 at Half Price Books, I couldn't resist.

      And thank goodness! Perhaps one of the most fun aspects of this book is the setting--more specifically, the time. This book takes place when the internet was just starting...and just getting big. To date it, AOL is mentioned as pretty much the only internet service provider.

      The story is one of a killer, who kills in order to find the fountain of youth--an up until now little researched gland in the brain. He kills to perfect his method of extraction, and hopes to transplant.

      Gosh, I was super interesting. If you're into thriller books, this is one to read.
    • 4/5
      While, yes, the technology is dated, this is pretty believable for the period it was written in (for fiction levels of believable). Harper Cole is a successful commodities trader working from home, also working as a SysOp for EROS a electronic sex site. At the cutting edge of the time. He realises that there are women missing from the site, women who haven't cancelled their accounts. When he tells a cop investigating the murders he finds himself as prime suspect, and in trouble with the site. He's now playing with a psychopath who is using the site for his own purposes.It's an interesting read and kept me going, while sometimes dated I found it plausable.
    • 5/5
      Chilling, horrifying, electrifying. THIS is how a thriller should be written.
    • 3/5
      quite good, too long. Setup is internet sex chats with murders resulting. Keep forgetting plot--pineal
    • 4/5
      Not a bad story line, but way too long (564 pages). I thought it would never end. The characters are interesting, the story in the beginning spell binding. Unfortunately, the book fairy hit me over the head with her bookmark and the spell was broken.
    • 5/5
      i wish there were more stars to give! i rarely write a review but this book deserves one. i believe i read somewhere this was greg iles first novel. well whew…what a glorious novel it is and the narration by eric g dove is fantastic. not sure where he is from but i will say his old south southern accent is perfect. so many people attempt it but very few get away with it. my opinion but i was born and raised in the south so i think i know what it should sound like. :). if you are a fan of the thriller genre and have not already listened to this book. look no further cause this is it!
    • 3/5
      A tad long but kept me interested. Not the best of his books. Not sure that I would recommend this however.
    • 5/5
      Best book I’v ever read! Great insight in the mind packed with thought provoking emotions!
    • 4/5
      I love it when I cannot put a book down! This thriller, set in the Mississippi Delta, involves a brilliant, demented killer on a medical mission. There are multiple twists and turns, tests of friendship, love v. sex and eroticism, lies & difficult truths. Well done!
    • 4/5
      Too unnecessarily long and tedious in places.
    • 4/5
      Harper Cole, a sysop for EROS, an on-line service for explicit sex, is questioned by local police and the FBI about the murders of several female EROS clients. In an effort to prove his innocence and identify and trap the actual murderer, Cole and a fellow sysop try to lure the murderer into an online relationship using very personal family information.Mortal Fear is a story which captures the reader's interest right from the start. Cole’s relationships and emotions in dealing with the various characters, especially the evasive and intelligent fellow sysop Miles, can be truly felt. The suspense builds throughout the novel, drawing the reader speedily along to its thrilling, although somewhat hard-to-follow, conclusion.
    • 4/5
      Ok, I know the technology really, really dates this crime novel, but if you accept that it was right at the time, this is a fabulous, "edge of your seat" thriller. It didn’t reach 5 stars since there were times when it lost reality, but for me, it didn’t spoil my enjoyment. I would hope that the FBI are not really as bad as the buffoons they were portrayed as (I’m a brit – so what do I know)!
    • 5/5
      Sleep No More; Dead Sleep; Blood Memory; Turning Angel; The Quiet Game; and True Evil by Greg Iles I just discovered this author and his string of thrillers in the fall of 2007, but I have rapidly become an addict. Almost all his books are set in the deep South – Mississippi, in particular. To a Yankee like myself, Iles’s genuine love for his hometown of Natchez, and his clear-eyed examination of the South’s troubled past and its efforts to move forward are enlightening. Though there are some elements of the formulaic in all the works I’ve read (each has an unbelievably gorgeous and incredibly accomplished heroine, for one), Iles is able to transcend the usual shallow approaches to plot, and create a variety of believable, flawed characters. His plots are exciting without being ridiculously labyrinthine, and no sinister X-Files type conspiracies mar what are fairly taut and engaging story lines. Mortal Fear by Greg Iles In only a decade the plot of this book has become a trifle dated, but this thriller examining the darker side of Internet hook-up sites is still a great read. Characteristic Iles’ touches abound (the gorgeous and talented heroine, the husband who is emotionally torn between her and another), but one of the most interesting villains in fiction (aside from Hannibal Lecter) makes this another great read.
    • 4/5
      A nice, thick story to sink into when you want to escape your own reality. The last 30% I had to finish all in one go. NO WAY I would've been able to sleep!
    • 5/5
      Bill MacDonald, a regular reader of this book list, sent me e-mail a couple of weeks ago and told me to read this book right away. Do I ever owe him a big thanks! This may well be the best book I've read in several years. Really, seriously. I don't really have the vocabulary to adequately describe why. It's a gripping, compelling plot, expertly told without a flaw anywhere and so full of memorable characters and scenes that I feel like I've seen the best movie ever. Harper Cole is a commodities trader married to an OB/GYN living in rural Mississippi. He's so sure that he knows the identity of a recent murder in New Orleans that he calls the homicide division to tell them. And the story takes off. If you have any interest in reading thrillers, and you find a better one than this one, please send me the title immediately!
    • 5/5
      Excellent, excellent thriller that will keep you in suspense on every page. You won't be able to put it down. An accomplished author. A must read if you enjoy this kind of fiction.