Dr Sam Becker is driving along a country
road when a girl dashes into his path, flags him down and pleads for help – her
family’s car has crashed down an embankment and is straddling a railway line,
with a train on the way. His rescue efforts are only partly successful but he
still emerges as a wounded hero.
However some things do not add up: why was
the driver handcuffed to the steering wheel; why was the baby in the boot; why
did only the girl get out; and why has she now disappeared?
Sam has other pressing issues on his mind
just now. He is in fierce competition with a colleague for a consultant’s job
at the hospital, and the man who murdered his kid sister fifteen years ago has just
been released from prison and is still claiming innocence.
So when more strange things start to happen
to him, Sam can’t decide who is behind them – his work rival, the ex-con with a
sense of injustice, or someone displeased with his intervention on the railway
line. Whoever it is has got some imagination, and a twisted sense of purpose.
Fortunately, with time off work to
recuperate mentally from the train crash and with his wife away on business, he
has time to pursue his tormentor; or is he just being led by the nose to a
sticky end?
The events, characters and inter-relationships
are convoluted and to me somewhat contrived, more to perplex the reader than to
serve a coherent plot. This makes the reading quite fun in a mind-blowing way
but on reaching the conclusion there remained unanswered questions in my mind.
It is a pacey read that uses chapter-ending
cliff-hangers to keep you interested and turning those pages.
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