The Prophet
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (899 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0316122610 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Tremendous dissapointment First, I must state that I have been (up to this book) a great Koryta fan, having read and enjoyed all of his books through The Ridge. That said, The Prophet was one of the worst thriller category books I have ever read. I would have pitched it halfway through were it not for the author. This was Koryta! It HAD to start getting better! Sadly, it did not. It seems Koryta came up with a thriller story that was good for 50 pages or so. To make it longer he stretched it over a large frame-work of a high school football program story, interweaving the two stories just enough to justify the whole t. Another Homerunerr Touchdownfor Michael Koryta! George Lichman Michael Koryta's ninth book, The Prophet, is scheduled for release on August 7, 2012. After three paranormal thrillers, The Prophet is a return to Mr. Koryta's roots: a mystery set in northeast Ohio. Since I am a fan of mysteries, a fan of Mr. Koryta, and a northeast Ohioan, I was excited to get my hands on a copy of this thriller. And I was not disappointed. On page five, still part of the prologue, I knew I was hooked after reading this, a glimpse inside the mind of the as of yet unknown antagonist: Unshakable confidence. Unshakable stupidity. He is fascinated by the confident specimens of . Just okay Love2Read I really enjoy this author and have read many of his books. I had just finished Last Words, which was one of the best books ever. Grabbed me from the start and had o many twists and turns. Fabulous. So when I started the Prophet I was looking foreword to it. But it was disappointing. Too much football talk. No characters that I really cared about. Had a difficult time finishing but I hung in there. And, unfortunately, the end was rather predictable. Oh well But the good news is that there's a sequel to Last Words coming out in August and I've preordered it.
Now Adam keeps to himself, scraping by as a bail bondsman, working so close to the town's criminal fringes that he sometimes seems a part of them. When they were teenagers, their sister was abducted and murdered, and their devastated family never recovered. As details emerge that connect the crime to the Austin brothers, the two must confront their buried rage and grief-and unite to stop a killer. Just before playoffs begin, the town and the team are thrown into shock when horrifically, impossibly, another teenage girl is found murdered. Michael Koryta, widely hailed as one of the most exciting young thriller authors at work today, has written his greatest novel ever-an emotionally harrowing, unstoppably suspenseful novel that Donald Ray Pollock has called "one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels I've read in my life.". Kent Austin is the beloved coach of the local high school football team, a religious man and hero in the community. Adam Austin hasn't spoken to his brother in years. After years of near misses, Kent's team has a shot at the state championship, a welcome point of pride in a town that has had its share of hardships
Michael Koryta (pronounced ko-ree-ta) is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, most recently THE PROPHET. He currently lives in St. His last three novels, THE RIDGE, THE CYPRESS HOUSE, and SO COLD THE RIVER were all New York Times notable books and nominated for several national and internat
Now, they’re not my stories and prose, of course, but no one need know that truth, either. Striking the right balance isn’t terribly hard, or hasn’t been so far. I know you a little, and I'm 99% sure that you weren't cloned, that you have a family, but I don't know about siblings. If I smile for a photograph, I look evil. I spent a full year with them in coaching meetings, practice fields, and on the sidelines, and it was tremendous and fascinating. DEAN: You're writing a novel about wilderness-survival training, so you went to a survival school. In person, you're not like that; you're relaxed and easy-going. Whether it was a basketball or football or baseball bat or golf club in my hands, they’d say, “Son, I think you should be a writer.” It’s good to have consensus. Presumably you survived. If they’ll just give me a chanc