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The Intruder
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780446605052
ISBN: 0446605050
Label: Vision
Manufacturer: Vision
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: February 01, 1997
Publisher: Vision
Studio: Vision
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Editorial Review:
Peter Blauner's dark thriller The Intruder centers on John Gates, a homeless man in Manhattan who has come to believe that a lawyer named Jake Schiff has stolen his family and ruined his life. When Schiff takes up extreme measures to put an end to Gates' harassment, the world is turned upside down for both men. Blauner's characterizations are taut and he excels at creating short, edgy scenes that fray at the nerves as this morality play careens toward its inevitable conclusion.
Peter Blauner's dark thriller The Intruder centers on John Gates, a homeless man in Manhattan who has come to believe that a lawyer named Jake Schiff has stolen his family and ruined his life. When Schiff takes up extreme measures to put an end to Gates' harassment, the world is turned upside down for both men. Blauner's characterizations are taut and he excels at creating short, edgy scenes that fray at the nerves as this morality play careens toward its inevitable conclusion.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Not as good as his other novel
I bought this book because I tremendously enjoyed Blauner's 1997 book, "Slipping Into Darkness." Slipping Into Darkness is a real page-turner; it was masterfully written and I couldn't put it down. But Intruder is nowhere near as good. The characters are flat, the drama is predictable, and - worst of all - the plot line is highly implausible. I cannot say too much more without giving it away, but as someone who works in the field of forensic psychology I really had a hard time suspending my disbelief ... Read More
Rating:  - Lots of plot twists
The title to this book is interesting and serves as a decent introduction to the story. Ostensibly, the Intruder in the story is the homeless man who fixates on Jake Schiff and determines, through his crack-induced haze, that Jake Schiff has somehow stolen his family and his home. But, as you read you notice that there are actually lots of intruders. Jake Schiff is a Jewish lawyer from a rough Brooklyn neighborhood who doesn't quite fit in with his WASP law firm and their snooty ways. His wife is a social ... Read More
Rating: - STREET JUSTICE
In this rather downer of a novel, Peter Blauner etches realistic and scathing portraits of a diverse cast: Jake Schiff, a power house lawyer who finds his life turned upside down by the invasion of a "street Person" with severe emotional problems; his wife, Dana, a psychiatric social worker whose involvement with this same person catapults her family into a vortex of danger; John Gates, the street person whose tragic past and dependence on drugs, spirals him into a maze of terror; Philip, a sly ... Read More
Rating: - A real page turner!
This was the first book I've read by Peter Blauner and it will not be the last.
At one time, John Gates felt that he had it all, a family and job of his own. But after his daughter was killed in an accident right before his eyes he experiences severe depression. Soon, he finds himself unemployed and on the streets. He meets Dana Schiff, a psychiatric social worker and he's convinced that Dana is really his exwife. Soon John G. begins to stalk her family. Jake, her husband and also a lawyer, decides ... Read More
Rating:  - Awful...
I picked up this book to read during a long flight, and I am so sorry I did. It is supposed to be gripping and exciting, but all I did was yawn! And I read some 200 pages before I gave up. I always take books on overseas flights because I usually cannot sleep to save my life. I wish I had taken another-any other-book besides this one! That flight, I can assure you, was dreadfully long.
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