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The Broken Hearts Club by Ethan Black - Great Thriller

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Item number:400084931181
Item location:Chesapeake,Va, United States
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Author: Ethan BlackFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Ballantine BooksEdition: 1
ISBN-10: 0345426029ISBN-13: 9780345426024
Subject: Action, AdventurePublication Year: 1999
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Language: EnglishCondition: Very Good
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Length:326 pages
Height:9.8 in.
Width:6.5 in.
Thickness:1.2 in.
Weight:21.6 oz.

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A banker with a devil-may-care attitude--and a smile that conceals a devilish impulse. A literary agent who is quick to anger--and much too easy to manipulate. A mechanic with a desperate need to be liked by everyone--no matter the cost. And a psychologist who keeps all their secrets--especially his own . . .They meet every week in the dingy back room of Mackeys Steak and Ale Tavern in New York City. An informal group of men with one thing in common: They all suffer the sting of a broken heart. But soon the anger turns to hate. The rejection turns to rage. And the Broken Hearts Club spins violently out of control--exploding into murderous acts of vengeance.Named "the richest cop in New York" by the Daily News, a man both intense and chivalrous, Detective Voort is assigned the case, determined to catch an elusive killer who is always one death ahead . . . who appears to switch identities with each new victim . . . and who knows how to cover his tracks with cold efficiency.Then Voort falls victim to his own broken heart, his growing anguish threatening to compromise the investigation--as his ex-girlfriend unknowingly becomes the target of a frightening new breed of serial terror. In this sleek, stylish, sexy thriller, Ethan Black gives us a chilling novel of psychological suspense that races like an adrenaline rush through surprising twists of plot--and ends with a shattering, shocking climax. Breaking up may be hard to do. With The Broken Hearts Club it's fatal.
The Broken Hearts Club, meeting regularly at Mackey's Steak and Ale Tavern, consists of a group of men with one thing in common: the sting of a broken heart. But for one of them, the rejection has turned to rage . . . and murderous violence.

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This well-paced psycho-thriller debut about a group of lovelorn New York City men manages to transcend occasionally awkward prose on the strength of journalist Black's unusual ability to arouse an emotional response. The Broken Hearts Club (whose members include the Banker, the Mechanic, the Agent and the Reluctant Patient, who never shows up) is a therapy group of rejected suitors that meets each Thursday in the back room of a tavern overlooking the West Side Highway, facilitated by psychologist Dr. Ian Bainbridge, who collects case histories to use in articles that enhance his professional standing. The processing of their unresolved rage plays out in the brutal murder of The Banker's former mistress. Meanwhile, the idyllic affair of NYPD's richest cop, detective Conrad Voort, with the beautiful, erotic Camilla Ryan, suddenly falls apart. As the "BHC" murders continue, a hotline call from an "anonymous" doctor directs Voort to investigate The Banker. But after a promising start, the trail seems to vanish into thin air. Time after time, other heartening clues lead to a dead end. When Camilla wrongly accuses Voort of stalking her, the paradoxical trail leads back to Bainbridge, and the fiendish machinations among the characters force a so-so denouement. Black fashions some terrific dialogue and keeps the scenes rolling in punchy succession. The iconoclastic Voort could well augur the advent of a sexy, savvy, highly charismatic new icon in popular crime fiction, if Black pays better attention to crafting. Major ad/promo; Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, Mystery Guild selections. (Feb.)
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A group of men, calling themselves the Broken Hearts Club, meets weekly with psychologist Bainbridge in the back room of a seedy New York City bar to obsess about the women who rejected them. When the women are brutally murdered one by one, the only link is the appearance of the letters BHC at the scene of each crime. Handsome Detective Conrad Voort is called in to investigate but has to deal with his own broken heart when girlfriend Camilla (who also happens to be a patient of Dr. Bainbridge) breaks up with him and becomes a target of the killer. The fast pace and concisely drawn characters in efficiently set scenes do not obscure the lingering sense that first-timer Black is manipulating his readers. Nevertheless, fans of serial killer thrillers will look for this Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, and Mystery Guild selection. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 10/1/98.] V. Louise Saylor, Eastern Washington Univ. Lib., Cheney
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