James Patterson & Howard Roughan: You’ve Been Warned
By Peter on Feb 29, 2008 in Thriller
The Patterson bestseller factory has turned out another high-drama thriller, this time in collaboration with Honeymoon coauthor Howard Roughan. You’ve Been Warned may not be his best, but it is good.
Kristin Burns, a New York City nanny and aspiring photographer, is devoted to the two children under her care, 
but her desire for their father, Michael Turnbull, leads her to a risky, torrid affair with him.
Kristin’s anxiety about her guilty secret is heightened by a series of frightening nightmares centering on a vision of four body bags being loaded onto gurneys in front of a prominent Manhattan hotel. Her nightmares also feature recurring encounters with dead people, including her father and the pediatrician who abused her as a child. Kristin’s breathless, superficial narration doesn’t generate a lot of reader sympathy or interest in figuring out the source of her macabre experiences.
See our reviews of other Patterson books: The Jester, Cross, Black Market, and Beach Road. Other interesting books by this highly productive writer are, among other, The 6th Target
, Step on a Crack
, and The Quickie
.
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