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Nameless Night

by G. M. Ford

     

Nameless Night is my first experience reading one of G. M. Ford's novels, and what an experience it was.  I found myself hooked on the story from the beginning.

Paul Hardy had lived for seven years in Harmony House, a group home for mentally impaired adults.  He'd been there since the hospital released him after the accident that had left him lying in a rail car, near death.  Now, he helped with the other residents and worked for Ken Suzuki's landscaping service.  He never spoke and his short-term memory was almost gone.  This was probably due to the fact that his forehead had been bashed in, crushing his frontal lobes.

Then, Shirley accidentally rolled her wheelchair into the road into the path of an oncoming car.  Paul rescued Shirley, but couldn't save himself.  The collision left him in need of plastic surgery, which the driver of the car paid for, since the state wouldn't.

After that surgery, Paul began to change.  Ken no longer had to show him several times how to do something.  Instead of having to be shown several times after lunch how to do the same task he'd been doing before lunch, Paul still knew what to do.  He began to remember more, including a name, Wesley Allen Howard.  But as soon as he began to ask questions, someone started trying to kill him.

Nameless Night is a fascinating story in spite of the profanity.  It is well written and the plot is fantastic.  Without the foul language and one graphic sex scene, this is a superb book.  Even with the language and the graphic violence, I found it hard to put down.  So give this author and book a try.  You're in for a very different kind of suspense thriller.  Pick up Nameless Night and enjoy.

The Book

HarperCollins
January 2009
Paperback
9780060874438
Mystery / Suspense
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Excerpt
NOTE: Contains violence, profanity and sex

The Reviewer

Jo Rogers
Reviewed 2009
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