Gecko Ken Douglas 9780976277989 Books
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Jim Monday's wife left him for a slick doctor who wants his money more than his wife, so he hires his best friend as his lawyer, who is killed before his eyes. Jim attacks the doctor for the crime and is arrested. He knows the doctor did it, but has no proof. While in jail he learns how evil the doctor really is. He has to get out, has to rescue his wife from a horrible fate. But it won't easy as the doctor calls forth an ancient horror as evil as Lucifer himself. Jim escapes and goes after the doctor with the police hot on his trail. He knows what's after him, but he has no idea about what's ahead.
Gecko Ken Douglas 9780976277989 Books
I really enjoyed Douglas' first book that I read, Diamond Sky, and his fast-paced story telling. However, as I read several more of his books, a very disappointing pattern was emerging. In subsequent books, he would reach back and grab old material from his previous books and insert it, almost verbatim, into his new novels, e.g., the luring of antagonists onto submerged rocks called the Dolphins, the same cab driver in Trinidad, the escape after the car wreck at the bridge, the security guard being killed escorting two cops into a suspects condo, etc. He's too good of a writer to use such lazy tactics.After reaching the point in Gecko where the security guard was killed almost exactly as one in a previous novel, I stopped reading the book. I was so disappointed with his practice of self-plagiarism, if there is such a thing, that I refused to go further.
It's a shame because this guy could be a very good writer.
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Gecko Ken Douglas 9780976277989 Books Reviews
Unique storyline. Totally different. But missing important factors that leaves you thinking......WHAT HAPPENED HERE???????
Great Book! Plenty of action and mystery. I really enjoyed the concept of using a myth from New Zealand. That was very unique. I highly recommended this book.
Loved this book. Fast action and couldn't put it down. Kept me riveted the entire time. This book has everything you could want in a book. Am looking forward to reading more from Ken Douglas.
I really didn't like this book, it was kind of strange. I wasn't sure what was going on at first and the whole story was like fairytale science-fiction type of story.I did not like it.
This book kept me up every night until I finished it! What a great story. The characters are wonderful and the 'monster' isn't phony like I was afraid it would be. Really well written! I actually cared about the people in the story and wanted things to turn out okay for most of them. Not all of them. There are some real bad guys in there. )
I will be watching for more by Ken Douglas for sure!
No dull moments in this horror yarn about a California man, Jim Monday, with the spirit of a captive woman across the world thrust inside him and radically changing his life. Add to this his wife leaving him for a perverted German doctor and his henchmen. Ratcheting the conflicts, Sawbones has summoned two ancient gecko creatures, one that kept making me think of that little green guy that runs around in GEICO commercials (not scary) and another that could have come, fangs dripping, out of a Godzilla versus ____ movie (scary). This novel is paced like a thriller with a policeman and his horny daughter trying desperately to clear the main character of the criminal carnage that the doctor and the bigger creature leave behind. Does this sound wild? Yeah, it is. It's a twisting read that takes unexpected turns.
Kudos to the author for somehow making most of this work. There's action, thrills, a few creepy scenes (a cemetery scene!), sex, more sex, gore and some fairly compelling characterization. I could have used a coda, as the ending was a little too abrupt. Also, I found the woman inside Jim Monday's body speaking to him through normal double quote dialogue somewhat jarring (wouldn't italics have been less confusing?) but this is a stylistic choice that the reader does eventually get used to.
What a strange, albeit fulfilling, read. The writing was fluid and the formatting was good. Recommended for those who like creative horror tales that lean more to the bizarro side (although I don't think it's intended to be bizarro). A roller coaster read!
He's big, he's green, he's got horrendous breath and he's a total killer. He is, of course, the Gecko of the title. He's sort of a familiar to an evil grazed doctor pornographer. The kind of guy you don't want to meet in a dark alley, especially if he's got his gecko pal along for the ride.
This story opens with our hero, Jim Monday and his best friend, attorney David Askew crossing the street. Monday hears a voice in his head, telling him to "Jump back." He does, David does not and is struck by hired killers in their stolen car. The killers work for Doctor Bernd Kohler, who has swept Monday's wife off her feet, so he's got half Jim's fortune, however he wants it all, hence the killers.
Back to the voice in Jim's head. It belongs to a woman named Donna, who is imprisoned in New Zealand, half a world away. Turns out her mind has flown the coup (it's an ancient Maori thing) and settled itself inside Monday. So now Jim's got a stranger living in his head. This makes for some very interesting reading, exciting too.
The evil doc takes Monday's wife up to his castle type hideaway in Northern California, Monday follows, getting constant advice from Donna in his head, and the Gecko is hot on Monday's tail. So are the cops, because Monday had a tussle with the killers and left them dead. Unfortunately he killed them in the police station and now the cops think he's the killer.
Fiftyish Jim Monday is a heck of a character. He's dogged and determined, but he's afraid to fly. He thinks like a young guy, but reacts like an old guy. He fights like the devil to save his wife, though she clearly is through with him. And then there is the matter of the girl in his head (she's like nineteen or twenty). There's a clock ticking on her and so he's gotta wrestle with that fear of flying if he wants to save her. Does he? Read the book and find out. Jeez, I used to say that when I gave book reports in elementary school, when I was a little girl.
I really enjoyed Douglas' first book that I read, Diamond Sky, and his fast-paced story telling. However, as I read several more of his books, a very disappointing pattern was emerging. In subsequent books, he would reach back and grab old material from his previous books and insert it, almost verbatim, into his new novels, e.g., the luring of antagonists onto submerged rocks called the Dolphins, the same cab driver in Trinidad, the escape after the car wreck at the bridge, the security guard being killed escorting two cops into a suspects condo, etc. He's too good of a writer to use such lazy tactics.
After reaching the point in Gecko where the security guard was killed almost exactly as one in a previous novel, I stopped reading the book. I was so disappointed with his practice of self-plagiarism, if there is such a thing, that I refused to go further.
It's a shame because this guy could be a very good writer.
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