Pacific Heights
A Novel
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3.7 • 10 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A San Francisco detective becomes entangled with a private intelligence agency as he investigates what appears to be a traceless form of murder
A couple meets in a seedy hotel room for an illicit affair, the rules of which are simple: no names, no personal details, the specifics of their lives off-limits. It's all very exciting to Lore Cha—the wife of a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur—who thinks their forbidden meetings and taboo sexual encounters are exactly the escape she's been looking for: every single detail is as she imagined. But that's the problem. Phillip Krey anticipates every thought before she has it. He plays out her untold fantasies down to the last detail. His insights are beyond intuitive; they're invasive, even frightening. It's as if he has access into her mind. Across town, Elise Currin, wife to one of San Francisco's most powerful businessmen, is also seeing Krey, and is slowly being driven insane by his ability to tap in to her most private desires. When it's revealed that these women are also seeing the same therapist, a chilling scenario unfolds, and the quiet, plotting detective Marten Fane is called in.
Slowly Fane uncovers a plot that goes beyond Krey to reveal a powerful private sector, secret government involvement, and one of the most elaborate and monstrous psychological experiments imaginable: a traceless form of murder.
" … Harper succeeds in sympathetically portraying Elise and Lore as they face genuine danger. " - Publishers Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This contemporary thriller from the pseudonymous Harper offers a promising setup, but suffers from a lack of dramatic tension. When San Francisco psychotherapist Vera List realizes that two of her patients, Elise Currin and Lore Cha, both the wives of important and powerful men, have fallen under the sway of the same domineering lover who has somehow gained access to her confidential files, List turns to former SID detective Marten Fane for help. Fane discovers that an already deeply disturbing situation is even worse than it appears. Ryan Kroll, who works for a large private intelligence company, is determined to prove his warped psychological theories at the cost of his lovers' lives. As minor characters fall into peril, the enigmatic Fane so dominates the playing field as to make the struggle with Kroll almost one-sided. While the action doesn't always grip, Harper succeeds in sympathetically portraying Elise and Lore as they face genuine danger. Author tour.
Customer Reviews
Pacific heights
Not my favorite David Lindsey book. I did not fully comprehend or experience the fear the two women were feeling because I could not get inside their heads- which I find ironic since that is what the story was about.