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CRITICS SING THE PRAISES OF
MICHAEL CONNELLY’S THE POET
“CHILLING. . . . THE POET RINGS TRUE. A good reporter is like
a pit bull, never giving up the chase. And Jack hangs on to the bitter
end, even when he becomes a target.”
—San Francisco Examiner
“PULSE POUNDING. . . . Connelly is one of those masters of
structure who can keep driving the story forward, paragraph by
paragraph, in runaway-locomotive style.”
—USA Today
“SHOWCASES CONNELLY’S POWERFUL STORYTELLING AND
WRITING SKILLS WITHOUT HARRY BOSCH. . . . The plot
twists are crisp and perfectly angled into the story. At least a dozen
times I had that ‘aha’ feeling that told me I had the mystery figured out.
As it happened, the only thing I’d figured out early and still believed by
the end was that this is one terrific novel.”
—Houston Chronicle
“PREPARE TO BE PLAYED LIKE A VIOLIN. Connelly writes
suspense out of every possible aspect of Jack’s obsessive hunt for his
brother’s killer.”
—Kirkus Review
“TERRIFYINGLY REALISTIC. . . . CONNELLY’S PLOTTING IS
NEAR FLAWLESS. . . . THE POET ranks with Thomas Harris’s
Silence of the Lambs.”
—Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
“CONNELLY KEEPS A SURPRISE UP HIS SLEEVE until the very
end of this authoritatively orchestrated thriller.”
—Publishers Weekly
“A SKILLFULLY TOLD AND RIVETING TALE. Connelly should hit
it big and reach the large audience who gleefully subjected themselves
to the horrors of Thomas Harris’s Red Dragon and The Silence of the
Lambs. . . . Clearly a must.”
—Booklist
“THE AUTHOR ROARS THROUGH THE FINAL ONE
HUNDRED PAGES OF THE BOOK DELIVERING TWISTS,
TURNS, AND THRILLS IN EVERY PARAGRAPH. . . . This guy
writes commercial fiction so well, he’s going to end up on the
‘literature’ shelves along with Poe if he plays his cards right, and here’s one
reader who hopes he does.”
—Los Angeles Times
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