The Cold Road

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Summary: "The Architect"
Review: The Cold Road is a cohesively constructed psychological vestry that gives the reader a room with a clear view of blurred facts and fiction for today's social horrors. From Holding companies to a Father's greatest Fear, DOc's Perseverance and dilligent attention to details, with regards to the construct, portrays an unfamiliar persistance (given the rush of Coffee Shop Evolutions) which illuminates the reader by the last page...with revelations.

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Summary: Hot
Review: The Cold Road is worth your time: alternately sexy, sobering, and tense. It is a mystery, a bildungsroman, a thriller, and a fantasy novel. Wilber makes you feel the bone-deep cold of January in Minnesota, the bright heat of St. Kitts, and the pain and confusion of growing up. Read it during the summer, then go back and read it in the winter.

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Summary: A Cut Above
Review: This is an excellent suspense story. The author will keep you off balance and guessing throughout the entire novel. What makes it a cut above many other thriller genre books is how well the characters are drawn, how real they are, and the writing style itself, which is, at its best moments, both lyrical and moving. This novel will appeal equally to suspense, horror, and mystery readers--not an easy thing to do. The author has a lot of talent, and I look forward to reading more of his work.

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Summary: A real page turner
Review: Wilber's novel is chock full of unanswered questions, just the way I like 'em. The juxtaposition of hot and cold in the book adds to the conflict. The characters are believable and the ending is a shocker. I couldn't put this one down.