Author:Michael Symmons Roberts
When a teenage couple are found murdered in their car, a boy called Adam Sligo is the only suspect. The letter A is found blazoned on the wall at the murder scene and is soon followed, around town, by the other letters of the alphabet, each immaculately painted in red. What do the letters mean? Is Sligo playing games with the police? Or putting a spell on the town?
Perry Scholes is mixed up in all this from the start: a man haunted by cars and death - and photographic images of both. He trawls the motorways and edgelands listening to police radio, getting to the car-crash or the crime scene before them. He makes a living selling these shots to the papers. He is the one who spots the painted letters, and begins to document their appearances.
As the town is paralysed by fear and paranoia, a vigilante cult emerges, arming itself for the battle against evil. Perry finds himself trapped in a nightmare. A killer is at large, and the alphabetical messages he leaves seem to be personal messages for him.
His corpse-strewn first novel derives its title from St Patrick's habit of inscribing letters on new territory to transform it...the atmosphere of creeping menace kept this heathen reading, simultaneously irked and intrigued
—— Mark Sanderson , Daily TelegraphCrafty, sad and haunting
—— Literary ReviewThe narrative voice turns it from a dark whodunit into something more intriguing. But Roberts never forgets that his principal responsibility is to keep us hooked - and that he does with aplomb
—— Barry Forshaw , Daily ExpressSuitably disturbing and unsettling, and lingers long in the mind
—— Daily MailA cold, existential tale... One of the terrific things the novel offers is his rendering of a town in the grip of a nameless fear
—— ObserverAn intriguing, gripping and highly unconventional crime novel
—— Times Literary SupplementAn impressive novel
—— HeraldStylistically accomplished
—— John Dugdale , Sunday TimesAdrenaline-fuelled adventure... He knows exactly how to press all the buttons... yet another awesome performance
—— Evening StandardReacher is vengeance personified, a walking, fighting revenge fantasy... what he normally chooses to do is right wrongs and defend the weak against the forces of oppression... Characteristically, Child drives the plot like a rally car, a hair-raising ride careering down the route a break-neck speed... Lee Child's loyal fans know only too well that those who enter his Reacher tales have no reason to abandon hope. Quite the opposite and Worth Dying For is no exception
—— Sunday ExpressIt looked like Lee Child cheekily killed off the seemingly unstoppable Jack Reacher in his last book - but no. Reacher is battered but upright- still the thinking man's action hero, supreme butt-kicker and smartest guy in the room... [another] hell-for-leather story
—— Seattle TimesA model of suspenseful storytelling and an outstanding addition to a series that stands in the front rank of modern thrillers
—— Washington PostChild's gift for pacing makes it almost impossible to start one of his novels without finishing. Worth Dying For is grade-A escapism
—— Independent on Sunday (Books of the Year)Child presses all the buttons... Another awesome performance
—— Mark Sanderson , The ScotsmanBrings a shock of moral horror that is unprecedented in Reacher novels
—— Toronto StarUtterly compelling... one of Child's best. He keeps up the lightning pace, great writing and punchy one-liners throughout
—— Daily ExpressA contender for top thriller of 2010
—— Sun (Best books of 2010)A turbo-charged page-flipper: you're on page 300 before you take a breath...Child is a master of distances, spaces and the physics of opposing forces
—— The Scotsman
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