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DANTES' INFERNO
by Sarah Lovett
Pocket Books, October 2002
385 pages
$6.99
ISBN: 0671026461


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If you want to read a good story involving the relationship between a psychologist, her fiancee and her foster daughter, try something else. These issues are explored in the book, but only marginally. If you are looking for a nonstop action thriller, full of explosions, suspense, and clock-ticking satisfaction, then this is the book for you.

Last seen in A Desperate Silence, Dr. Sylvia Strange leaves New Mexico for a while to go to Los Angeles. She has been asked to give some standardized tests to John Dantes, an inmate, responsible for a rash series of bombings including the death of a young boy and his schoolteacher in a museum field trip. Dr. Strange goes to see Dantes and realizes that he is a manipulator and that he is insane. He does not cooperate with her and makes her uneasy with the way Dantes has learned about her past. Before arriving in Los Angeles, one of Dr. Strange's patients committed suicide for which she has felt responsible. Dantes knows about that and toys with her until she decides not to do anything more with him. Plans will change when a new series of bombings carrying Dantes' signature begins to occur.

The doctor is drafted to try to help the Los Angeles Police Department track down a serial bomber obsessed with John Dantes as well as with Dante Alighieri, author of Inferno. The bomber has been leaving clues showing his obsession with the Nine Circles of Hell in that classic work as well as with the imprisoned Dantes. The inmate has vital information to the case but he will only use Dr. Strange as an intermediary, no one else.

The reader's imagination goes wild with all the explosions that are rocketing all over Los Angeles. The story's plot is tense not giving the chance for the reader or the characters to catch their breath. Dantes' Inferno is the type of book that one has to read in one sitting in order not to miss out on all the action. It is well constructed, taut, with a dramatic showdown at the end. All the characters here have a stake in stopping this bomber and some will do it at the expense of their own lives. Dantes' Inferno is a good book that breaks from the routine and it is highly recommended. It will be hard to top that in her next novel, but you never know. Just make sure that you are in a comfortable seat before reading this latest book in the Dr. Sylvia Strange series. You will be there a while.

Reviewed by Angel L. Soto, November 2002

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