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    Chance

    Written by Kem Nunn

    Narrated by Adam Verner

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    Dr. Eldon Chance is a brilliant forensic neuropsychologist with a long track record of getting involved with damaged women. After separating from his wife, a series of bad decisions leads to Chance sleeping with a patient named Jaclyn Blackstone. Unfortunately her ex-husband is an Oakland homicide detective and the jealous type. Meanwhile, Dr. Chance meets a young man who goes by “D”, who is fascinated by the dangerous affair with Jaclyn and advises Chance that her ex-husband will find a way to destroy him. As Detective Blackstone does indeed threaten the doctor, Chance and D plan a counter-strike. Meanwhile Chance continues his steamy affair with Jaclyn, who has a story that is far more complex and darker than he could have ever imagined...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateFeb 18, 2014
    ISBN9781629234410
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    Kem Nunn

    Kem Nunn is a third-generation Californian whose previous novels include The Dogs of Winter, Pomona Queen, Unassigned Territory, and Tapping the Source, which was made in to the film Point Break. Tijuana Straits won the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He lives in Southern California, where he also writes screenplays for television and film.

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    • 3/5
      I really like Kem Nunn and his earlier work. This one, however, is not very good. The plot line is derivative and predictable. The characters are instantly forgetable. While there is some decent writing in the book, as a whole, Kem Nunn is capable of much more.
    • 2/5
      I've stayed a fan of Nunn's through his shakier works, but this new novel is a real challenge. It's as if he has literally forgotten how to write. Never a master of believable or well-structured plot, here he loses control of style and character as well, so what remains is a something like a Dean Koontz/Stephen King piece, minus the usually focused premise, but plus the occasional turn of memorable phrase.

      'Chance' opens with a setting, character, and theme quite removed from Nunn's typical fare, though it quickly becomes the same old descent into violent underground madness. But that setting is neither believable not a great idea in itself; who, in 2014, writes a noir/crime tale carried by multiple personality disorder, hallucinations, etc? Oy.
    • 3/5
      A twisted tale of sexual obsession and bad choices by a San Francisco neuropsychiatrist. The protagonist, along with some quirky and bizarre characters, take this tale so far that the reader needs to suspend belief and rational thinking, to continue reading.
    • 3/5
      This is really 2 1/2 stars. I love this authors books, or I did until this one. I think the author has been writing for TV too much lately. This book is choppy throughout loaded with unneeded detail, drifts away from the story and has very little dialogue between the characters. The story, what little there is of one, is amateurish and easy to see how it will play out. Not a good book at all.
    • 3/5
      Not terrible, not stupendous.

      Nunn gives us some interesting characters, but I found that he made some curious choices toward the final third of the novel (taking some off the board, changing some, almost abandoning others).

      I understand this is supposed to be a slow boiler, and on that level, it mostly worked, but the end left some raggedly gaping holes that I wasn't happy with.

      So, okay. Not terrible, not stupendous.
    • 2/5
      I chose this book after reading an interview with Hugh Laurie in the WSJ magazine; evidently, he is going to star in a made-for-TV movie based on Chance. I did not enjoy the book; I kept waiting for something to happen for the first 3/4 of the book beyond endless driving around San Francisco in the fog, and then was sort of 'meh' about the deus ex machina ending. Plus, I find unreliable narrators annoying. Sorry.