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 enlarge | Authors: James Patterson, Howard Roughan
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
List Price: $27.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  140 reviews
Sales Rank: 1025
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.4
ISBN: 0316018708
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780316018708
ASIN: 0316018708
Publication Date: June 9, 2008
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 Four and a half stars for this one June 13, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Katherine Dunne is a widow, a heart surgeon and mother of three spoiled kids ages 18, 16 and 10. They were a somewhat dysfunctional family before dad died; after he died, things got worse. So she decided she and the kids should spend the summer on the family boat and try to become a family again...without her new husband. Her former brother-in-law would be the captain of the boat.
The first day out, the daughter (18) tries to commit suicide and Jake (the captain) finds a ruptured hose as the boat fills with water. It's all goes downhill from there...really fast.
The sinister characters, surprises and subplots add up to a quick, fun read. A little sex and a big snake are thrown in for good measure.
 SAIL June 13, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have read all of Pattersons books over the years. This isn't one of his best. I kept reading hoping for more. It was like I had an abridged version. It was just missing something. I will not recommend it at $24.95.
 Sail June 13, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Again another exciting story with so many twist you all most get lost.
It keeps you guessing to the very end. You want to read it without putting it down. Difficult to go to sleep too quickly when you
finish reading another great Patterson book.
There is only one James Patterson!
Moves Quickly With Trademark Killer Twists June 13, 2008
15 out of 23 found this review helpful
James Patterson and Howard Roughan have produced another winning beach read guaranteed to keep the pages turning. SAIL is a stand-alone novel instead of one of his series (Alex Cross, Women's Murder Club), and has the added facet that everyone is at risk in this one. Nobody has to come back for the sequel, and some of the characters don't.
Cardiac surgeon Anne Dunne has been stressed out by the twists and turns her life has taken. Her husband has died and she barely held it together. Then she got swept off her feet by Peter Carlyle, a dashing attorney. They've been married for a couple years, giving Anne time to heal some of her hurts and get her feet solidly back on the ground.
I like Patterson's books for the sheer velocity of the story. He doesn't provide more than a skeletal background for his principle characters, but that's all that's needed to understand the machinations he puts them all through.
Although a lot of Anne's emotional turmoil is glossed over in the novel, I still felt her pain and uncertainty. But there simply wasn't time to dwell on Anne's loss because things constantly happened in the book. The authors introduced one vicious turn after another, and the Dunne family became more and more endangered.
However, the furious plotting robbed the characters a little. Anne organized the sailing vacation for her three children because she felt the family was falling apart. Everyone who has a busy family has felt that stress. Oldest son Mark has a drug problem, Carrie is suicidal, and Ernie has become strongly anti-social. These issues were introduced in a straight-forward manner, then resolved almost instantly. I feel I missed out on some of the character growth and interaction with the headlong pacing of the book, but I couldn't stop turning the pages, which is exactly what the authors designed the book to do.
I really liked the character of Jake Dunne. He stepped onto the page and became real to me at once. He's the solid kind of guy that will always see things through no matter how messy they get. But, like all of the characters in this novel, he has his secrets too.
Peter Carlyle, Anne's new husband, turns out to be one of the blackest hearted villains I've seen in a while. He's only out for himself. His relationship with his much younger girlfriend Bailey really sets the tone, and readers will learn to hate this guy, and fear his single-minded determination.
The international hitman Carlyle hires nicknames himself The Magician because of the ease with which he can make people disappear. He's cool and calculating, and fills the story with menace.
Lost at sea, injured and dysfunctional, the Dunne family's struggles will pull most thriller readers through to the end in a single sitting or two. They won't be able to put the book down as the authors pile on one surprise after unexpected twist after impending doom. SAIL runs before the wind as a perfect beach read now that summer is upon us.
I thought that there were angels June 12, 2008
0 out of 13 found this review helpful
For months I'd been saving all the change from my heroin transactions to purchase this masterpiece and it didn't disappoint. The Patts Man certainly has a knack for building characters who are one part homespun salt of the earth, one part zombie tree-dwellers and one part fictional. Painstakingly depicted against the backdrop of Nazi Antarctica in 26,000 BC, you'll stare with wide wonder at the joy you have found. Words cannot begin to express what will be expressed to you by the words in this book. Enjoy, my friends. Enjoy.
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