Revolution No. 9 (27 page)
Authors: Neil McMahon
Monks leaned down to Marguerite and carefully unclenched her hands with his own, then helped her to her feet.
“Come on,” he said. “Let's get to a phone and call your mom.”
Arm around her shoulders, he guided her out the door where he had first seen her standing on that night when all this had started, a million years ago.
As always, this book owes a great debt to many people who helped in its making. To name a few:
Chuck and Lois Anderson, Frank and LaRue Bender, Dan Conaway, Lisa Grubka, Mike Koepf, Drs. Dan and Barbara McMahon, Kim McMahon, Jill Schwartzman, and Jennifer Rudolph Walsh.
NEIL McMAHON
studied premed at Stanford and was later a Stegner Fellow there. He is the author of three previous Carroll Monks thrillers and a new stand-alone novel set in Montanaâwhere he lives with his wifeâto be published in 2006. You can visit his website at
www.neilmcmahon.com.
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Raves for
REVOLUTION NO. 9
“A blood-drenched battle of wits and willâ¦McMahon's story and prose are fired straight from the hipâ¦Slam-bang!”
Philadelphia Inquirer
“[A] potent story sure to intrigue readersâ¦chillingly real and believable.”
Chicago Sun-Times
“Action-packed.”
San Francisco Chronicle
“McMahon is a skillful writerâ¦his story is crisp and fast-moving.”
Washington Post Book World
“McMahon pulls off the virtually impossible: he creates a lunatic terrorist adversary so believable that he quickly becomes touchingly realâ¦In McMahon's cool, expert hands, it becomes a duel both fascinating and frighteningly real.”
Publishers Weekly
(*Starred Review*)
“The roller-coaster ride is about to beginâ¦[A] turbo-charged taleâ¦Readers who enjoy strange confrontations and strong characterizationâ¦will find it well worth the money.”
Lansing State Journal
“Creating a believable villain is the hardest work in the artistic worldâ¦which makes Neil McMahon's successâ¦so stunningâ¦In McMahon's assured hands, the duel between the rational, scientific doctor and the fascinating, frightening Freebootâ¦is an absolutely riveting read.”
Chicago Tribune
“The Caroll Monks novelsâ¦are crisply written, with plots that make you think and characters who make you want to spend quality time with them. The quick-witted Monks is one of mystery fiction's more original series leads, and [
Revolution No. 9
] shows that he is a long way away from overstaying his welcome. Bring on the next one!”
Booklist
NEIL M
C
MAHON
“A first-rate writer.”
Robert B. Parker
“An astute observer and a skilled storyteller.”
Cleveland Plain Dealer
“McMahon's prose is as sharp as a well-honed piece of surgical steel, and his characters ring as true as the California landscape they inhabit.”
Jenny Siler, author of
Easy Money
“Neil McMahon's thrillers have the precision of a surgeon's scalpel.”
Michael Connelly, author of
Chasing the Dime
“Like John Grisham and James Patterson, McMahon excels.”
BookPage
“Neil McMahon surely has a future of prestige and honor ahead of him.”
The Missoulian
“A writer you're going to be hearing a lot about.”
Chuck Logan, author of
Homefront
“Carroll Monks is a character to watch, and Neil McMahon is an author to remember.”
Peter Robinson, author of
Strange Affair
“McMahon always makes it work.”
Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
REVOLUTION NO. 9.
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