Fidelity | 
| Author: Thomas Perry
Publisher: Harcourt
Category: EBooks
List Price: $20.00
Buy New: $9.99
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 11160
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
ASIN: B001E95V4G
Publication Date: May 12, 2008
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Product Description
When Phil Kramer is shot dead on a deserted suburban street in the middle of the night, his wife, Emily, is left with an emptied bank account and a lot of questions. How could Phil leave her penniless? What was he going to do with the money? And, most of all, who was he if he wasn’t the man she thought she married? Jerry Hobart has some questions of his own. It’s none of his business why he was hired to kill Phil Kramer. But now that he’s been ordered to take out Kramer’s widow, he figures there’s a bigger secret at work—and maybe a bigger payoff. As they race to find the secret that Phil Kramer so masterfully hid, both Hobart and Emily must question where their true loyalties lie and how much they owe those who have been unfaithful to them. In Fidelity, Thomas Perry delivers another riveting thriller.
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 Gag me with a spoon ... November 27, 2008
I honestly don't know why I bothered finishing this book. It started collapsing in the first chapter. Perry was absolutely committed to destroying the plot, assassinating the credibility of his characters, and giving prose a bad name. According to one reviewer Perry is a master of the "runaway narrative." I'd say that just about sums it up. I'd run away from this one as fast as your feet can take you.
 I had to look back to see if this was the same author I used to like! September 25, 2008
This was a really bad book. I would not recommend it to anyone unless someone gives it to you for free.
I skipped over huge portions of it because it was so boring. The characters were underdeveloped, shallow, and there was certainly no suspence.
Worst of all, the reader is suppose to feel sorry for the killer and be happy that he could live happily ever after with just a little remorse for a robbery, but nothing for the murders he cold-bloodly committed. How absurd!
preposterous plot August 18, 2008
I've read everything Tom Perry has written since the inaugural Butcher's Boy and I keep reading him because of his clever writing style and his careful grasp of the procedural, whether the procedure is hiding people or finding people or just killing them expertly. But the final mystery of Fidelity, once revealed, is so preposterous that I almost stopped reading. We are expected to believe that skilled private eye Kramer was hired by a rich psycho to find and return his runaway "daughter" and that Kramer never bothered to confirm that his client actually had a daughter, never consulted other law enforcement for leads, and when he found the "daughter," failed to discover that she was actually an underage girl his client had been bonking. Perry gives the impression of having lost his way in the plot and going to desperate measures to tie up loose ends.
 A great read! July 19, 2008
I have been a long time fan of Thomas Perry, and Fidelity continues in his unique style. He is a master of character, suspense and clever plot twists. Excellent story telling - I couldn't put it down.
Calling this book "Pulp" is an undeserved compliment July 18, 2008
Way, way too much narrative -- and boring narrative -- and too little dialogue -- and boring dialogue at that. It would seem to me that Mr. Perry is way way over-hyped. This is the last Perry book I'll read, and I'm probably not qualified to write this review, as it took me about 30 minutes to read it. I started skimming because I was mildly -- very very mildly -- interested in the plot ... and kept skimming faster and faster. Basically, a waste of my time. Very amateur-ish. I'd give it a "No Star" if that rating were available.
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