THE WEB: An Alex Delaware Novel

Kellerman, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 0553089218 / ISBN 13: 9780553089219

Published by Bantam Books, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1996

About this Item

Signed by author on title page. After thirty years of attending to the phsical and mental health of the inhabitants of Knife Island, a tiny community in the Micronesian archipelago, Dr William Moreland feels it would be of benefit to his successor, and to his colleagues throughout the Pacific, if his records were properly analysed. Only too grateful to escape the violent atmosphere of Los Angeles and recoup their emotional resources, Dr Alex Delaware and his partner Robin accept Moreland's invitation to spend a sabbatical on the island to help him in the task. But Knife Island is not the paradise of the travel brochures. The murder of a young woman has created an atmosphere of division and fear. A potential development threatens a large part of the island with environmental pollution. And Dr Moreland is not universally regarded as the saintly healer of his own mythology. Co-habiting with cockroaches the size of dinner plates and spiders more venomous than rattlesnakes, Alex and Robin discover the doctor is concealing an older and darker mystery, a conspiracy of such startling magnitude that even Alex, with his knowledge of the depths of human depravity, is hard put to comprehend, or understand why he has been invited into such a horrific web of intrigue and abasement. As new,first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clippedd} MBS1/ BB.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE WEB: An Alex Delaware Novel
• Publisher: Bantam Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553089218
• ISBN 13: 9780553089219
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed/Inscribed Books
  • Mysteries

About this title

Synopsis

During a visit to scientist-philanthropist Woodrow Wilson Moreland on an exotic Pacific island, psychologist Alex Delaware encounters a group of secretive houseguests, terrifying noctural vistors, and dark secrets from the past that threaten the lives of Alex and Robin Castagna. 225,000 first printing.

Review

Jonathan Kellerman may have the French government to thank for making this terribly timely thriller, but he must take credit himself for making it a coolly intelligent one. (GQ)

Elegant, ironic and ingenious as ever. (LITERARY REVIEW)

hard to put down. (DAILY MAIL)

splendidly handled version of THE WEB in which Kellerman delivers a fresh and ingeniously crafted outing for his hero Alex Delaware. (NEW SCIENTIST)