Darkness in Him: A Novel

By Andrew Lyons

Jake Conason is the Golden Boy of Jefferson University in St. Louis. His future is big and promising--top grades, a gorgeous girlfriend, membership in the most popular fraternity on campus, and he's headed toward law school. But when one night's drunken indiscretion with a woman he barely knows leads to murder, Jake discovers just what he's capable of to cover up his past and insure his own future success. A chilling, addictive first thriller, already optioned for the movies, that delves deep into the heart of an anti-hero and discovers the Darkness in Him .

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312301464
• ISBN13: 9780312301460
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.6" x 1.1" x 6.4"

Customer Reviews

Highly Recommended

Thoroughly enjoyable. I read it in one sitting. I agree with others who also found it impossible to put down. Highly recommended!

The best book about Fred Millicent ever written!

While most of the reviews on this page have focused on the anti-hero Jake, the true hero of this story is Prof. Fred Millicent, who rose from humble beginnings to become "the foremost authority in the United States on death penalty precedent." In his early days living in the basement of his mom's trailer home in Omaha, few would have believed Fred had the potential to climb the ranks of Ivy League academia. Little did anyone know that during his breaks from running the fry vat at the locak Kwiki-Mart, Fred was studying law books in the men's room. When a chance encounter with Justice William Rehnquist leads to a long discussion of the merits of the 8th ammendment, Fred's path to legal stardom is cleared. An inspiring story about an inspiring character I hope to read more about in the future.

Talent In Him!

This is this writer's first novel & I will be anxiously awaiting & anticipating more to come! For a debut work, I found it to be exceptional. The psychological suspense & intrigue is top-notch, the dialogue is taut & surprises are around every corner. I read it in record time, feeling drawn back to it with every spare minute I could devote. Andrew Lyons is a talent & should have a very bright future ahead of him as a writer in this genre if he continues in the tradition of "Darkness In Him!"

darkness

this is truly about the darkest side of 'darkness': it is the darkness of the human soul. I truly found this book exceptional: a great plot, the main character's psychological profile is extremely well presented and intriguing. I highly recommend this book, I could NOT put it down and read it all in one night.A must read.