Chance

Name: Chance
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Kem Nunn
ISBN: 9781629234410

Author: Kem Nunn

Narrator: Adam Verner

Unabridged: 10 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Published: 02/18/2014

Categories: Fiction, Psychological

Synopsis

Dr. Eldon Chance is a brilliant forensic neuropsychologist with a long track record of getting involved with damaged women. After separating from his wife, a series of bad decisions leads to Chance sleeping with a patient named Jaclyn Blackstone. Unfortunately her ex-husband is an Oakland homicide detective and the jealous type. Meanwhile, Dr. Chance meets a young man who goes by 'D,' who is fascinated by the dangerous affair with Jaclyn and advises Chance that her ex-husband will find a way to destroy him. As Detective Blackstone does indeed threaten the doctor, Chance and D plan a counter-strike. Meanwhile Chance continues his steamy affair with Jaclyn, who has a story that is far more complex and darker than he could have ever imagined...

About Kem Nunn

Kem Nunn is a third-generation Californian whose previous novels include The Dogs of Winter, Pomona Queen, Unassigned Territory, and Tapping the Source, which was made in to the film Point Break. Tijuana Straits won the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He lives in Southern California, where he also writes screenplays for television and film.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Robert on August 23, 2014

If the bar is a psychological thriller pace, then CHANCE didn’t measure up. It moved at a slow, leisurely pace instead of an all-out race. The vocabulary and sentence structure weighed in with a bit more heft than one might expect from your typical thriller, but I still felt shortchanged in the end.......more

Goodreads review by Jim on May 21, 2018

Chance is a modern take on the classic noir-crime genre of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett (especially Hammett as the story uses San Francisco and Oakland as it's setting). Nunn waxes philosophical through out the novel, having his characters discuss Nietzsche, quote Kierkegaard (purity of hear......more

Goodreads review by Tuck on August 07, 2014

a most compelling noir horror. dr chance becomes emmoiled with a patient, who is abused and practically held hostage by her homicidal homicide detective ex-husband. or is she? so dr. chance is gonna be her knight in shining armor, his sidekick an ex-special forces killer from afghanistan wars. or is......more

Goodreads review by Rowena on October 10, 2017

This is ambitious and provocative, complex in construction and in its prose. Superficially it treads the same neurotic waters as Jonathan Kellerman’s Dr Alex Delaware investigations, where the reader is given psychological insights into the mechanisms of the unravelling mind. But author Kem Nunn take......more

Goodreads review by John on July 16, 2015

Mysterious Book Report No. 155 by John Dwaine McKenna Some of the best thriller and crime fiction stories are built around the premise of an ordinary person being put into an extraordinary situation. For example . . . Peter Parker is bitten by a radioactive spider and as a result, develops supernatura......more