Ghosting: A Novel
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.65 (878 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312549288 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Still, battling the elements together, the family forges a fragile unity…until a man adrift on a plastic beach float hundreds of miles from land springs a trap. Held hostage by smugglers who’ll stop at nothing to get their cargo to port, the family faces the ultimate question: How much would each one be willing to sacrifice in order to buy the others a chance to survive?. Dr. His wife, Arlen, is having an affair; Ric, their twenty-year-old son, hears voices urging him to violence; and teenaged Haley, a champion swimmer, would rather be anywhere than on a cruise to Bermuda in her family’s luxurious new sailboat…The Scales’s bon voyage party ends in the death of a stowaway, a lightning storm that nearly sinks them, and one of Ric’s worst schizophrenic episodes yet. Jack Scales, hotshot neurosurgeon, is at the peak of his career—and his family’s showing the strain
The overconfident, inexperienced sailor shrugs off advice, unaware that his wife loves another man or how unprepared he is for the realities of the sea. . (Nov.) (c) Copyright © PWxyz, LLC. A lethal accident is only the first calamity to disrupt the voyage; Slow Dance later nearly sinks in bad weather. When a moment of misguided charity leaves the Scaleses in the hands of a gang of bloodthirsty pirates, the family's survival depends on Jack's limited cunning. All rights reserved. Poyer relies on graphic scenes of violence, murder, and rape as well as on moral clichés familiar from action movies, even providing closure with a comforting final moral that contradicts all he has shown us. From Publishers Weekly Successful neurosurgeon Jack Scales, self-centered and oblivious, sets out with his reluctant wife, teenage daughter, and college-age son on what's intended to be a triumphant cruise aboard his motorized sailboat, Slow D
A terrible story - don't read it L. Porter This is a horrible book. I bought it thinking it was part of Poyer's navy series of Dan Lenson books, which are great. But this book, "Ghosting", has absolutely no redeeming social value. It is pure graphic violence. It has given me nightmares. There was no resolution of the terrible events of the book. I would not recommend it to anyone.. "fast-paced twisting action" according to A Customer. Egotistical but brilliant neurosurgeon Dr. Jack Scales purchases a fancy yacht he christens the Slow Dance. Although he has little sailing experience and that in sheltered environs and his vessel is not ocean oriented, he decides to sail from Long island to Bermuda. Accompanying Captain Jack is his reluctant family; his wife Arlen who considers leaving him, his twentyish bipolar son Rick who may be sent to a group home, and his rebellious teenage daughter Haley who loathes any family outing of more than a minute.From the start, the ocean voyage proves dangerous as Jack's inexperience surfaces ra. D. Blankenship said IGNORE THE STAR RATING HERE BUT FOR GOODNESS SAKES READ THIS AND OTHER REVIEWS BEFORE READING THIS ONE. Well, other reviewers are absolutely correct in their assessment of this workeach and every one of them! The good reviews and the bad reviews are absolutely spot on!The overall plot of this story is quite simple. A successful neurosurgeon who is egotistical, clueless, and a complete jerk buys a new sailboatthe best money can buy, and despite knowing absolutely next to nothing of sailing it, much less voyaging in the open sea, takes his family consisting of a wife and teenage daughter and son, on a trip from Long Island to Bermuda. The teenage son, who is bi-polar, is only the tip of the iceberg