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Date of Release: September 2002 |
Publisher: Hodder Headline |
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John Waters is living a comfortable life in Natchez, Mississippi with his wife and 8-year-old daughter when he meets Eve Sumner. The chance meeting takes on greater significance when she mentions facts and little code words from his past that only he and his former girlfriend, Mallory Candler, knew. The disturbing aspect of this is that Mallory has been dead for over 10 years. The explanation provided by Eve steps us into the realms of the supernatural as she explains that she is actually the spirit of Mallory Candler living in the body of Eve Sumner.
Such is the skill of Greg Iles that he takes this implausible scenario and makes it sound believable. He does this simply through the rational reasoning of John Waters and his friend Penn Cage. It's actually thanks to their disbelief that the concept of soul transference becomes more real.
The pace is frantic as Waters is kept off balance throughout. Facts and events keep coming at him quicker than he is prepared for. Life starts off very normally, but soon the protagonist's world is thrown into total disarray by the seemingly impossible. And Iles wraps things up nicely, still leaving a few of the more curly questions open for possible further exploration.
