The suspense genre, already engulfed by the English term thriller, is a kind of black subgenre that is currently being exploited as the foundation of many plots or as a complement to that sort of more eclectic works that usually reach bestseller positions as mystery novels, adventure novels. or the darkest detective genre.
And that's okay, nothing like a good psychological strain to ensnare readers.
The question is, as this author has posed Patrick Flanery, if you can get a new twist to get a more intense thriller, or at least more disconcerting ... For this, nothing better than to introduce ourselves to an absolutely mimetic character for us ordinary citizens and readers. Jeremy O'Keefe is a fairly normal person, like any of us (we can enjoy our adventures but at the end of the day we are routine beings, blessed routine). The aspect in which Jeremy stands out is in his role as a renowned Oxford professor who recently arrived in New York as a professor of German History to finish his teaching years at the border of 60 years (remarkable as a professional but nothing remarkable as a public figure) .
And yet .. zasss. Suddenly reality seems to constrict around good old Jeremy. His good job prospects, his pride as a father for a daughter who has managed to earn a reputation in New York society ... everything is in the background.
Because the fact that Jeremy receives a dossier with a multitude of internet urls, and another with an endless list of phone numbers really worries him.
But the final concern, that perspective of his life in the background comes when he discovers that all is information is a follow-up that has been done to him. All the web addresses you visit, all the telephones that you have called since long ago.
Nothing so dark happens suddenly without major consequences. Soon the matter is splashing his life. Jeremy knows he is being persecuted. His mother starts receiving threatening calls. And he doesn't even know where to begin to think of a solution in this regard.
Someone from his past has a limitless anger at him that has led him to an unhealthy obsession with unpredictable consequences. But… he hasn't hurt anyone. In his vital memories he does not find any stain of confrontation with anyone.
It will be a matter of selective memory that forgets bad memories. Or will it be that what for someone is not an affront to someone else is a complete discord ...
And in those we move, with that idea that the thriller can wait for us at any moment. It can all depend on running into the wrong person who ends up targeting you for his particular revenge against what he thinks you represent.
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