Double Exposure

by Michael Lister

Book Overview

A 2010 Florida Book Award finalist! One fateful fall evening, as the sun sinks and the darkness expands, wildlife photographer Remington James ventures deep into the river swamp to try out some new... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 098252093X
• ISBN13: 9780982520932
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Tyrus Books
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Double Exposure

do not like his books. will not buy again.

An Intense Night in the Deep Woods

Remington James has a lucrative job in advertising, a wife he loves but from whom he is drifting, and an emptiness of soul he can not fill. When his father dies, Remington returns to his northwest Florida hometown to carry on his father's business and see to the needs of his invalid mother. While there, he rediscovers his early love of photography, a love given him an nurtured by his mother. In seeking the perfect pictures of the native flora and fauna, Remington believes he is not only helping to preserve nature but finding himself in the bargain. And so he ventures deep into the hardwood forest and swamps on the large acreage he has inherited, seeking his photos. Capturing great shots, he moves to his deepest camera trap, where he discovers that he has captured a brutal murder, minutes before he arrived. The killer is still in the woods, and has help. Remington's quest for the perfect nature photo has instantly become a desperate chase for his own life. The story of his flight from the murderers makes for an intense night in the dark Florida woods that will not disappoint. There is more to Lister's DOUBLE EXPOSURE than a pulse-pounding thriller, though. Lister writes with a style and grace that makes some passages almost poetic in their feel, and the questions that his protagonist struggles with, as he struggles for life, are the deep questions that come to us all, sometimes in the dark midnight of sleeplessness, often in the midst of a life crisis - what does my life mean, what is real and what merely window-dressing? In the course of the thrill-ride, Remington James comes to his own conclusion, as must we all. This is my first book by Michael Lister. It won't be the last.

Consuming..

I was very eager for this book to come out for months and was not disappointed. The book is a thriller about a photographer trying to survive a night in the woods fleeing murderers. It was appropriate, I believe, that my first taste of the book was outside as well. Listening to the sounds of nature as I first got to know Remington James and his environment. The rest of the book was consumed when I got home well into the night. I didn't put it down until I finally found out what happened next. The thriller is the main course, but the side dishes are as appealing too. The background story. A love story. Father and son. The "life questions" raised in the book seem to serve as the spices used in a meal. They add flavor, layers, meaning. My thoughts seem to keep returning to this book long after I first closed its covers and put it up on a bookshelf. I'll have to reread this soon!

Expose Yourself to this Thriller!

Remington James is a successful but unhappy advertising executive when his father dies. He returns to his hometown to run his father's store and care for his mother who is dying of MS. While he is home, he decides to pick up the hobby, the passion, he gave up years ago, wildlife photography. He has set trap cameras in the woods of the Apalachicola River Basin in hopes of maybe catching the elusive Florida panther. As he is out taking pictures and checking his traps one evening, he discovers that he has caught not the panther on his camera, but a murder. And now the murderers are hunting Remington through the pitch black of the Florida woods. If readers want to read DOUBLE EXPOSURE surfacely and minimally, they are in for a heart-pounding thriller. Lister's written a tight plot that doesn't allow one to slow down for even a second, just like his protagonist. Lister created a powerful effect by being a minimalist in this novel. His protagonist is a photographer out taking pictures in the woods. Lister's prose mimics that process so you can hear the camera shutter click as you read: Evening. Glow. Dark figures. Shot. Explosion. Bloom of blood. Body dropping to the cold ground. Death. Digging. Fire. And Lister's setting development carries you smack into the middle of Remington's Eden that is horrifically transformed into his Hell all in the course of one night. Remington reminds himself to "Use your senses. All of them." And Lister helps the readers to use their senses, all of them. Whether they are seeing the beauty of the landscape or the nightmare of a murder. Whether they are hearing life, or feeling fear. Readers will definitely be in the woods with Remington James on the most terrifying night of his life. But they'll have to listen carefully to hear nature's sounds over the thumping of their own hearts. If you want to delve deeper, you will find a complex interweaving of theme, plot, character and setting that results in a magical reading experience. Remington is almost a unique character in crime fiction in that he comes from a functional family. His parents loved him and he loved his parents; while Remington doesn't seem conscious of it, the reader quickly learns that both parents taught him skills that made him a great man. And of course, nature is a prominent theme as well as a symbol in DOUBLE EXPOSURE. The dark of night is essential to build up the suspense, but it plays a role also in the idea that man is destroying nature. So Remington's manic race is not just a race for his life, but a race for nature. Can they both make it out alive? Brilliant. Beautiful. Must-read!

Consuming...

I was very eager for this book to come out for months and was not disappointed. The book is a thriller about a photographer trying to survive a night in the woods fleeing murderers. It was appropriate, I believe, that my first taste of the book was outside as well. Listening to the sounds of nature as I first got to know Remington James and his environment. The rest of the book was consumed when I got home well into the night. I didn't put it down until I finally found out what happened next. The thriller is the main course, but the side dishes are as appealing too. The background story. A love story. Father and son. The "life questions" raised in the book seem to serve as the spices used in a meal. They add flavor, layers, meaning. My thoughts seem to keep returning to this book long after I first closed its covers and put it up on a bookshelf. I'll have to reread this soon!