Twice Dying A Novel
Twice Dying, a novel by Neil McMahon, is published by HarperCollins and was released on February 16, 2000. This first edition spans 224 pages and is presented in English. The narrative centers around Alison Chapley, a psychologist at a high-security mental institution near San Francisco, who becomes suspicious when a particularly dangerous patient is recommended for release. As she investigates the facility’s practices, she uncovers a disturbing pattern of violent offenders being fast-tracked back into society, leading her to question the motives behind their rehabilitation.
In her quest for the truth, Alison enlists the help of her ex-lover, Carroll Monks, a physician and medical investigator. Together, they navigate a perilous investigation that reveals a sinister game orchestrated by a mastermind known as Naia. The story delves into themes of psychological manipulation and danger, as Alison and Monks find themselves drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse scenario filled with cryptic clues and escalating tension. Readers will encounter a gripping exploration of the dark side of human nature within the framework of a thriller that keeps them guessing until the final pages.
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Do you know what happens
if you throw a piglet into a cage
with two hungry cobras?
NGIs. We read about them every day: violent sociopaths–rapists, arsonists, murderers–who “get away” with their crimes because they’re found not guilty by reason of insanity. Instead of prison, these NGIs are sent to live together in concrete-and-barbwire compounds like Psych Unit Three in the Clevinger Rehabilitation Program, a high security mental institution outside San Francisco.
They start eating it
from either end. Then one cobra
will swallow the other.
Clevinger psychologist Alison Chapley, a woman with her own dark secrets and needs, spends her days among these NGIs. When one of the most vicious is recommended for release, she immediately becomes suspicios. Digging deep into the hospital’s files, she discovers that many of these violent offenders have been fast-tracked, “rehabilitated,” and released back into society. After which, one by one, these men begin to disappear. Where are they? Who’s behind their release? And why?
That’s what Naia does.
Determined to find the truth, Alison turns to the one person she can trust, her ex-lover Carroll Monks, a physician and medical investigator. Partly because of the danger of the investigation itself, partly because of Alison’s sexually charged attraction to danger, Monks only reluctantly agrees to help. Almost immediately they find themselves lured into a macabre and increasingly deadly game of cat-and-mouse, orchestrated by a cunning mastermind known only as Naia.
She turns the strong
against each other…
and harvests the victor.
Naia’s perverse and carefully chosen clues–plaster marks, a snuff-style videotape, a deadly cobra–draw Alison into a psychological seduction she cannot resist. To save Alsion and himslef, Monks must outwit this brilliant and deranged mind at its own twisted game….
Neil McMahon’s Twice Dying is a uniquely heart-stopping read, a stylish, spare novel with a terrifying twist that will leave readers quessing to the very end.
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