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AT FIRST SIGHT: A NOVEL OF OBSESSION - JULY 2008
Vanguard Press | July 8, 2008 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 13: 978-159315-482-0
Check out these great features from At First Sight!:
- At First Sight Book Review
- Author interview with Stephen J. Cannell
- At First Sight Character Profiles
- Exciting Video Trailer
- Stephen's Podcast Interview
Meet Chick Best--a middle-aged, self-absorbed, disaffected, California dot-com millionaire. Other than his house and high-priced foreign cars, Chick's most expensive possession is his trophy wife, Evelyn. Evelyn is good at spending Chick's money, money that has pretty much run out. Another problem is his drug-addled sixteen-year-old daughter, Melissa. Though concerned about his life and family, Chick has resigned himself to a miserable state of acceptance. That is, until he, Evelyn and Melissa take a Christmas vacation in Maui. With this, Chick's life changes...
Chick experiences unrequited love at first sight when he observes Paige Ellis emerging from the hotel swimming pool. His obsession, exceeded only by his need to possess her, isn't diminished when he learns that she is happily married. Instead he befriends Paige and her near-perfect husband, Chandler. A short time later, back from Hawaii, Chick's obsession compels him to drive to Paige's house where he runs down and kills Chandler in a drugstore parking lot. But this is just the beginning of Chick's nightmare as his life spirals homicidally out of control resulting in the destruction of everything he holds dear. Will Paige learn the truth about Chick before it's too late?
REVIEWS AND PRAISE:
"Scott Brick turns Cannell's At First Sight into a rousing and endlessly exciting listening experience...the end result is perhaps one of the best commercial thriller audio books in recent memory." PW, August 25
"At First Sight is yet another triumph for Cannell who, even at this late date in his career, continues to handily trump his own best work." Read the entire Bookreporter.com review.
"At First Sight is a suspenseful, horrifying, yet slyly funny book. Stephen J. Cannell has written a perfect snapshot of contemporary America." David Chase, creator of The Sopranos