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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780060874438 Edition: Reprint ISBN: 0060874430 Label: Harper Manufacturer: Harper Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: February 01, 2009 Publisher: Harper Release Date: January 27, 2009 Studio: Harper Related Items:
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Discovered near death in a railroad car—his body broken, his mind destroyed—the man they call "Paul Hardy" has spent the past seven years living in a group home for disabled adults, mute, unresponsive, and eternally lost in a dull, gray haze. But in the aftermath of a horrific car accident, he awakens in the hospital with a reconstructed face, a voice, and a mind clouded with memory. No longer Paul Hardy, he's someone even he himself cannot recognize. And he's got a purpose: to follow the confusing images in his brain to his lost past and identity. But his strange rebirth has attracted the dangerous attentions of powerful government men determined to keep a devastating secret buried forever. And now he must run . . . or die. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Nothing special, and certainly not Corso or Waterman.This book is, for lack of a more descriptive word, adequate. You can read it. It's not full of incorrect spellings, the punctuation is good, and the chapters are arranged in order. It has a couple of good moments. But, as conspiracy novels go, it's weak. It's more than improbable (and most conspiracy books need to be at least slightly plausible to work), it's downright impossible. The protagonist is presented as an almost unstoppable force although no mention is made of how he developed his ... Read More Rating:  - I'm very, very disappointedI'm very, very disappointed. I was all set to dislike this book, and I couldn't do it. You see, I'm a certified Corso-holic. I loved G.M. Ford's Frank Corso novels. I couldn't believe it when I read on the flyleaf of this book that it wasn't another Corso book. How and why could Ford do it? How could this not be another Corso book? I was crushed, and then royally frosted. I was so ticked I looked up the author on the Internet to give him a few pieces of my mind - not that I could spare them. When ... Read More Rating: - Enough with government conspiracy themesFirst Sentence: Nobody saw it coming. Paul Hardy has spent seven years living in a group home for disabled adults. He had been found near death with severe injuries and no memory of who he was or his past. Now, a freak car accident has him back in the hospital. The man who hit him has paid for complete reconstructive surgery. Paul wakes up with both a new face, an awareness of what may have been his name and flashes of memory from his past. As soon as he starts a search for his ... Read More Rating: - G. M. Ford's First Stand-Alone Suspense Title Is A Winner!I've been a fan of G. M. Ford for a few years now. I've especially enjoyed his books about crusading reporter Frank Corso, and my personal favorite of those books is A BLIND EYE. Ford writes larger than life heroes and about true evil, with a smattering of philosophy concerning the measure of an individual. Not enough to be preachy, but enough to make you stop and think every now and again. His newest release, NAMELESS NIGHT, is a good fit for him. A suspense story wrapped up with ... Read More Rating: - Terrific standaloneG. M. Ford's first standalone novel, after his two wonderful series featuring Frank Corso and Leo Waterman, opens with a startling scenario: The man known as Paul Hardy had been found near death in a railroad car, patched up as well as possible, his injuries so severe that he is described in the first pages as follows: "...he smiled, or maybe grimaced. With all that scar tissue on his face, it was hard to tell. Looked like somebody had crushed the front of his skull with a crowbar or something, ... Read More 
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