But finding out who the mysterious client is who ordered the snuff film be made, helps me understand why the character was spared a grisly fate. There is a scene where it would have made a lot more sense for a character to have been killed as others had just been. I was ready to criticize the author for a possible plot hole in the novel. Once again, I'm not sure if I'd do what she did at the end of the novel, but it is the type of ending that shows that not everything in life turns out the way you want it to. And Lisa's final decision regarding her future rings true. How Lisa handles a second encounter with these madman stretches credulity for me a little bit, but just a little bit. What Lisa does to save herself is something I'm not sure I would do but she did it, and the novel expertly explores the ramifications of her decision and the effect it has on her.

The novel ultimately is about survival, and the things people will do to save themselves when their lives are threatened. But I have been in touch with the author, who told me that he has trusted sources who intimated that they do exist. I have no reason to think that they do or do not. Long thought to be an urban myth, the novel argues that they in fact do exist. The wife, Lisa, is in turn kidnapped and destined to be tortured and killed in a snuff film. Apparently, in California, you can ask a police officer to arrest someone on your behalf if you report to the officer that you have witnessed a felony and can formally identify the person who allegedly did it. The wife is pregnant and about to reveal the good news to her husband when they are separated by a man making a citizen's arrest.

This is a book about a young couple who go on a romantic weekend to get away from high pressure jobs. I mentioned that it is a very disturbing novel, easily the most disturbing book I have read in my life. I mentioned on my facebook and twitter updates in the last week that I have been reading a book called 'Survivor' by a writer named J.F.

Survivor by jf gonzalez