Black Lightning, John Saul
Black Lightning, John Saul
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Black Lightning

Author: John Saul

Narrator: Phil Gigante

Unabridged: 12 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/29/2008


Synopsis

John Saul knows how to make the blood run cold and the heart race wild with fear. Now the author of the New York Times bestsellers Creature and The Homing delivers a chilling novel of a convicted serial killer sentenced to death—and hell-bent on revenge.For five years Seattle journalist Anne Jeffers has pursued the horrifying story of a sadistic serial killer's bloody reign, capture, trial, and appeal—crusading to keep the wheels of justice churning toward the electric chair. Now the day of execution has come. A convicted killer will meet his end. Anne believes her long nightmare is over. But she's dead wrong. . . . Within days, a similar murder stuns the city. As the butcher stalks his next victims, creeping ever closer to her, Anne is seized by an icy unease, a haunting sense of connection to these unspeakable crimes. And, relentlessly, she hears the eerie echo of the dead man's last words to her: "Today won't end it. How will you feel, Anne? When I'm dead, and it all starts again, how will you feel?" In Black Lightning, John Saul strikes with a novel as electrifying as a jagged bolt from a pitch-dark sky, proving once again his inimitable genius for suspense.Praise for Black Lightning"His most effective thriller to date . . . [a] compelling read."—The Seattle Times"Electrifyingly scary."—San Jose Mercury News"One of Saul's best."—Publishers Weekly

About John Saul

House of Reckoning is John Saul’s thirty-sixth novel. His first novel, Suffer the Children, published in 1977, was an immediate million-copy bestseller. His other bestselling suspense novels include In the Dark of the Night, Perfect Nightmare, Black Creek Crossing, Midnight Voices, The Manhattan Hunt Club, The Right Hand of Evil, Guardian, and Faces of Fear. Saul divides his time between Seattle, Washington, and Hawaii.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Richard K. on January 08, 2021

Come on, a serial killer running loose in my home town of Seattle.....what's NOT to love!!! One of my all time favorites by John Saul! So, when this was published in 1996, I had already moved to California after my mother had passed away....but this still brought back all the memories of when the Gree......more

Goodreads review by Athena on May 03, 2023

Something about this book just absolutely failed to draw me in. Around page 350 I finally became more interested – just to be disappointed by an abrupt and sort of lame ending that left me with questions as to the future of the characters. Towards the start a poor description of 90s CPR didn’t help.......more

Goodreads review by Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl on November 04, 2018

One of my favorite John Saul books - disturbing and twisted. I think the subject matter is very interesting :-)......more

Goodreads review by William on March 07, 2011

I really enjoyed this book right up to the end and then found the ending very disappointing. I almost downgraded it to a three because of the ending. I found the premise to be pretty good but not original (serial killer executed at the same time a man dies and is revived from a heart attack.) There......more

Goodreads review by Ronnie on March 16, 2023

When I first picked this book up, I was worried that it was going to be homophobic/racist/misogynistic, as so many mass market horror novels of the mid-nineties tended to be. Instead, I was pleasantly surprised. In fact, john Saul seemed to go out of his way to show he wasn't homophobic, even if his......more