Joe Conlan

This is one book that you will not be able to get out of your head for a long time. The most effective way for me to describe this book is Criminal Minds uncensored, unplugged and unglued! If you are looking for a suspenseful and gripping thriller, look no further! This book will keep you on the edge of your seat the whole way through.
Joe Conlan is a genius. Not many people can create and execute such gory and realistic portraits of his characters; yet still keep the plot and details of the story in place. This book is a true work of art. I love scary movies, now I am in love with scary books. This book gave me the goosebumps.. and maybe a small nightmare or two here and there (and not in my sleep)!
Shem... he is a serial killer. He is the product of a low-life prostitute. He has learned to survive on his own since he was a little child. Despite his lack of real name, semblance of any kind of upbringing, schooling, etc, he has managed to show that he has the mind of a genius. He is cunning, calculating, intelligent and successful in his endeavors. He stalks his prey. He is patient. He strategizes his kills. It is hard to remember that he is a work of fiction and not a real psychopath. He gets off on the kill itself. The feel of warm blood from his victims on his skin gets him off in ways that will make you sick, yet intrigued.


Daniel, FBI agent in charge of finding this psychotic serial killer... He is married with two boys. His life is mundane, but he loves his job. He portrayed as the typical law enforcement agent; married to his job. Enter his college sweetheart, the center of Shem's obsession. Joe Conlan does a good job at getting you into Daniel's head. To see things the way he sees them. To feel them the way he feels them.



Believe it or not, you will have a hard time figuring out who to root for in this book. One would think you should want the psycho to be caught and jailed, but it is hard. You get to know Shem so intimatiely, you almost feel sorry for him... maybe even empathy for him. It becomes hard to consider him the bad guy, even though he methodically stalks and hunts his prey, then kills them in such a gruesome manner. How can you not want him stopped? Well, in order to figure that out, you will have to read this book! It will be one of the best books you have read, ever! [b:Nameless|17740969|Nameless|Joe Conlan|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1366650006s/17740969.jpg|24823948]
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This is one book that you will not be able to get out of your head for a long time. The most effective way for me to describe this book is Criminal Minds uncensored, unplugged and unglued! If you are looking for a suspenseful and gripping thriller, look no further! This book will keep you on the edge of your seat the whole way through.
Joe Conlan is a genius. Not many people can create and execute such gory and realistic portraits of his characters; yet still keep the plot and details of the story in place. This book is a true work of art. I love scary movies, now I am in love with scary books. This book gave me the goosebumps.. and maybe a small nightmare or two here and there (and not in my sleep)!
Shem... he is a serial killer. He is the product of a low-life prostitute. He has learned to survive on his own since he was a little child. Despite his lack of real name, semblance of any kind of upbringing, schooling, etc, he has managed to show that he has the mind of a genius. He is cunning, calculating, intelligent and successful in his endeavors. He stalks his prey. He is patient. He strategizes his kills. It is hard to remember that he is a work of fiction and not a real psychopath. He gets off on the kill itself. The feel of warm blood from his victims on his skin gets him off in ways that will make you sick, yet intrigued.


Daniel, FBI agent in charge of finding this psychotic serial killer... He is married with two boys. His life is mundane, but he loves his job. He portrayed as the typical law enforcement agent; married to his job. Enter his college sweetheart, the center of Shem's obsession. Joe Conlan does a good job at getting you into Daniel's head. To see things the way he sees them. To feel them the way he feels them.



Believe it or not, you will have a hard time figuring out who to root for in this book. One would think you should want the psycho to be caught and jailed, but it is hard. You get to know Shem so intimatiely, you almost feel sorry for him... maybe even empathy for him. It becomes hard to consider him the bad guy, even though he methodically stalks and hunts his prey, then kills them in such a gruesome manner. How can you not want him stopped? Well, in order to figure that out, you will have to read this book! It will be one of the best books you have read, ever! [b:Nameless|17740969|Nameless|Joe Conlan|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1366650006s/17740969.jpg|24823948]
Click the link to enter a giveaway of this book!
http://upallnightbookaddict.blogspot.com/2013/06/new-author-spotlight-and-givewa...… (mehr)

Having entered for and won Nameless as a GoodReads Giveaway I was grateful to receive a signed copy and communication with Joe Conlan was convivial, so I was looking forward to reading the book.
Sadly I am less positive about the experience and was left frustrated by so many aspects of Nameless.
It is clear this genre has appeal and there is a market for easy terror which relies upon base fears and graphic detail for impact. I wasn't expecting so much gore from Nameless, the manner in which successive murders is portrayed, and with so much detail, there is little room left for the power of suggestion. Not only is every despicable act by our serial killer entirely predictable they are often inexplicably telegraphed to the reader in advance ensuring any possibility for dramatic suspense is eradicated.
The book is overly and unnecessarily lengthy yet still manages to rush connecting scenes inviting the reader to ignore eye rolling events and the ludicrous super powers of Mr Nameless not least the ability to leave not even a microscopic trace of his presence having drugged and brutally slaughtered three people in a ship's cabin and left the room so swimming in blood and gore that hardened agents could not stomach the scene.
I ploughed on out of sense of duty and to be fair there are sections of the book which roll nicely, which are technically well written, and suddenly the pages turn nicely for a while, only for the story to descend again into ridiculousness not least the final scenes which had me wondering why I had allowed myself to get this far; if it was TV I would have switched channels long before.
The all too obvious ending of course sets us up for a sequel.
Mr Conlan can write, of that there is no doubt so if there is to be a Nameless 2 I hope for his readers he constructs a better story, with more believable happenings and rather better developed characters than those to be found in Nameless.
I can't recommend what potential readers should do other than read the reviews which are quite polarised and then decide if Nameless is likely to be your thing, it could have been mine in theory but in practice just left me as cold as one of 'Shem''s victims.… (mehr)