THE FACE OF FEAR

by Brian Coffey ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 25, 1977

Five years ago, Graham Harris, a glamorous young mountain climber, fell from the southwest face of Everest and was given a game leg--and a fear of heights. Now into magazine publishing, he also suffers from an unwanted clairvoyance which his fall awakened. His. psychic specialty is tuning in on murders, or being overwhelmed by their images. When he correctly clairvoys that the Butcher, who has killed nine women, is a man named Dwight, he's too accurate--and vice cop Franklin Dwight Bollingar sets out to kill him. The ""killer,"" however, is two men, Dwight and another, who arrange their separate murders to look like one man's hand. (They are updated Loeb-Leopold Nietzsche-lovers, whose bonding ceremony--they face each other while plugged fore and aft into a kneeling whore--is. . . well, the novel's imaginative high point.) Trapped in a 40-story Lexington Avenue highrise by Dwight, Graham and his girl are forced to descend the building's face by ropes and pitons during a barbarous weekend blizzard finale. Naming of murderers by psychic detectives (who can be sued) is hokum, but the rest does have some welcome surreal intensity.

Pub Date: April 25, 1977

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1977

Categories: FICTION