Dry Ice by Stephen White

In this latest Stephen White novel, psychologist Dr. Alan Gregory has to confront his own personal demons along with the breakdown of his personal and professional life due to nemesis, Michael McClelland introduced in his first novel PRIVELEDGED INFORMATION. McClelland has escaped from a mental institution and seeks to destroy everything Gregory hold near and dear. McClelland is working with other inmates that he has befriended in the State Mental Institution. With the help of the Internet, they have learned of old secrets held by Gregory, his prosecutor wife Lauren, and friend Detective Sam Purdy---all instrumental in McClelland's incarceration. He set on vengeance against them all by torturing them with their secrets.

I was riveted this expertly plotted novel from page one. Gregory has always been somewhat of an enigmatic character. His plight created by his long kept secret humanized the stoic Gregory. While the novel was not action based in the truest sense, I couldn't put the book down. Each scene seem to reveal a new twist. I wanted to see where the story went next. Several references were made to the character in the last Stephen White novel of KILL ME in which Gregory only played a peripheral role. First time readers might be a bit lost with the characters that populate the book since White spends little time with the backstories that have been built over the whole of the series. Fans of the series won't be disappointed in another well written and well executed Dr. Gregory novel.

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