Synopses & Reviews
Recently unemployed, Chris Nielson, a frustrated twenty-something rock guitarist, takes a job house-sitting on a desolate Maryland island for his father's rich friend, Ted Harper. Although the beach house is big, lonely, and strangely foreboding, Chris has his dog Charlie for company, his music to occupy his time, and a growing fascination with Caroline, the mysterious next-door neighbor. But Chris soon discovers things are not quite what they seem when he becomes a prisoner in a madman's world from which there is no escape. Cut off from the outside, tested to the depths of his very being, Chris learns how far he'll go to survive.
Point Fury provides a rich, contemporary spin to the traditional psychological thriller. Taking full advantage of an isolated desolate setting, John Maxwell weaves a story of political and sexual intrigue -- complete with riddles, hallucinations, and mental games.
Both powerful and surprising, Point Fury is, according to Stephen King, "an auspicious and assured debut by a writer who'll bear watching."
Synopsis
Unemployed rock guitarist Chris Nielson takes a job house-sitting on a desolate Maryland island for his father's rich friend. But Chris soon discovers things are not quite what they seem when he becomes a prisoner in a madman's world from which there is no escape.
Synopsis
Trapped in a house from which there is no escape -- with a madman who will stop at nothing to destroy him... Rock guitarist Chris Nielson is on permanent vacation after his professional and personal lives both crash and burn. So when his father's wealthy friend offers him a house-sitting job at his palatial Maryland beach house, it's just what Chris needs to get his head straight and dry out. Or so he thinks. For his new employer is not what he seems -- he's something much worse. Slowly, Chris is drawn into a life-or-death game devised by a twisted madman, and he realizes that his chance for a new beginning may be the end of him....
Hailed by Stephen King as "a writer who'll bear watching," John Maxwell delivers a heart-stopping debut novel that will keep readers up late into the night...with all the lights on.