The Survivors: A Cal Henderson Novel, by Robert Palmer
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“Do you think you know what your own mother might do? The Survivors is an up-close-and-personal mystery—the best suspense I’ve read this year. It will haunt you.” —DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the Outlander seriesPsychologist Cal Henderson has a successful practice in Washington, DC, and big plans for the future. But he can’t escape a terrible secret. When he was a boy, his mother murdered his father and two brothers and severely wounded Cal’s best friend, Scottie Glass. Desperate to keep the nightmare at bay, Cal has turned his back on everything that happened that night. On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the killings, Scottie shows up at Cal’s office—edgy, paranoid, but somehow still the loveable kid he once was. Though their lives have taken very different paths, they both believe Cal’s mother couldn’t have been a murderer. She loved them too much, no matter what dark place she found herself in. They set off to dig up the real story. Cal uncovers one shocking secret after another about his family. The trail leads to a shady defense contractor, a scheming US Attorney, and, ultimately a billionaire with the kind of power and connections that can only be found in Washington. But Cal is paying a price. The memories he has avoided for so long have come flooding back, sending him into a tailspin from which he may never recover.
The Survivors: A Cal Henderson Novel, by Robert Palmer - Amazon Sales Rank: #1332311 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-13
- Released on: 2015-10-13
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.19" h x .89" w x 5.50" l, .81 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 319 pages
The Survivors: A Cal Henderson Novel, by Robert Palmer Review “Do you think you know what your own mother might do? The Survivors is an up-close-and-personal mystery—the best suspense I’ve read this year. It will haunt you.” —DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the Outlander series“A superb mystery, seething with psychological intrigue and rich, deeply layered characters. Palmer’s masterful control of suspense and his complex plots and subplots pull the reader through the novel at a lightning pace and prove that he is a writer to watch. This is a terrific read.” —ALLEN ESKENS, Edgar® Award–nominated author of The Life We Bury and The Guise of Another “The Survivors is the very definition of a page-turner.” —DANA STABENOW, Edgar® Award–winning bestselling author of the Kate Shugak series“The Survivors is sharply plotted and riveting—deliciously spiced with all the ingredients that make for masterful suspense.” —LYNN SHOLES, coauthor of the bestselling Cotten Stone mysteries and Maxine Decker thrillers
About the Author Robert Palmer is a lawyer in Washington, DC, and teaches at George Washington University School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Swing and a miss. By Patrick McCormack This book lacks the flow of easy writing, and instead reads a bit blocky. The main characters are two boys, survivors of a shooting that contains mysteries, many years later. Did Cal Henderson's Mom really kill most of her family? The two boys, now men, pursue the truth, amidst complications.The narrative is choppy, reads like a series of briefs, is sometimes too explanatory and not enough doing, too much telling not enough showing. The writer fleshes out the scenes with a completeness that removes the crackle of suspense. There is not a sense that the author really knows what a psychologist does, and the cliché of a beautiful secretary, carried over from detective novels, does not work here.This is a swing and a miss. The book is good enough to be average, barely, and is a first effort. Maybe the next will be better.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A good, complex mystery that is not a quick read By Si Dunn "What a swamp a single lie can lead to."Washington, D.C., psychologist Cal Henderson thinks this to himself while he is trying, years later, to sort out the real reasons behind why his two young brothers and father were shot to death, and his mother committed suicide as he watched, helpless.Cal’s friend, Scottie Glass, also was shot and badly wounded that day. But just before Cal’s mother took her own life, she saw Cal in an upstairs window and signaled him, strangely, to get down, to hide.Why had she killed four people including herself and left Cal’s friend critically injured, yet warned Cal to hide? Hide from what? Or whom?Until now, Cal has managed to keep most of these childhood horrors somewhat in check, stored far back in his mind. His psychology practice is thriving, and his clients have many issues of their own to keep his mind occupied and challenged.Then Scottie Glass suddenly shows up after many years, fiercely determined to find out who really shot him and all of the others. And the way Scottie starts confronting important people in the nation’s capitol of purchased power and influence quickly lands him–and Cal, by association–on the FBI’s radar. Cal’s job, at first, is to try to keep Scottie out of jail. But Cal soon is drawn into his friend’s dogged investigation and soon has to take the lead as Scottie keeps using his computer skills to uncover more and more links and leads that could answer Cal’s questions, too.A caution: The Survivors likely will not be a “fast read." The story is complex. But it is well written, with many characters, details, and settings. So be patient; give things time to develop. For me, the story began to click solidly into place at page 75, when FBI agent Jamie Weston tells Cal: “D.C. is a whole different universe. You think you’re playing Go Fish for this guy Scott Glass. Then you find out the game is really Poker and the man holding all the cards is some sort of senator or lobbyist you’ve never heard of.”Indeed, how a years-ago murder-suicide can have some bearing on present-day, multi-billion-dollar defense contracts is just one part of the intricate mystery that unfolds in this series-debut first novel written by Robert Palmer, a practicing Washington, D.C., lawyer and law professor.(My thanks to Seventh Street Books for providing an advance reading copy for review.)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A Great Concept in Search of Some Great Detecting By E. Burian-Mohr One fine afternoon, Cal and his brothers are playing a board game with Cal's friend Scottie. That ended, they move to a game of hide and seek. While Cal counts, his brothers and Scottie go to hide. Cal looks out the window in time to his mother wave to him... and then shoot herself. Cal hides under the bed where he is eventually rescued. Her learns that his brothers, his father. and Scottie were shot, as well. Scottie is in critical condition. The others are dead.Hardly the path to a happy childhood.Cal is taken in by relatives who love and nurture him to relative health. He becomes a psychotherapist in a small, struggling office. He struggles with occasional, though devastating, blackouts. He has a kindly mentor with a goofy dog and a hot secretary. Life, in general, is okay.Then one day a new "client" shows up. It's not a new client at all; it's Scottie, healed physically, mentally somewhat unbalanced, brilliant, unpredicatble, and occasionally violent. Scottie has been doing some investigating on his own, and asks, no demands, that Cal help uncover the mystery of what really happened that horrible day, and why.And so this odd couple goes searching for answers and they manage to unearth all sorts of disturbing truths, crazed characters, scheming businessmen, the FBI, and a few others.While untangling the mystery of what really happend that day and why is compelling reading, Cal and Scottie's (and the FBI's) investigation is not. And that's where the book unraveled for me. I love a good sleuthing; this wan't it.In addition, it seemed that, if Cal was a psychologist, he would have some great psychological insights, a la Joanthan Kellerman in his Alex Delaware books. This is not the case. And with all the gunplay, you'd expect some insightful gun information. This, alas, is not the case either.For me, the best part of the book was the concept: what really happened that day, and why.The rest left me in need of some great detection. Now where did I leave that Nero Wolfe book...?
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