Stone Council

by Jean-Christophe Grangé

Book Overview

After Blood-red Rivers and Flight of the Storks, Jean-Christophe Grangebreaks through the barriers of the traditional thriller. As a child Diane Thiberge was the victim of an assault. Now aged 30, an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1860468640
• ISBN13: 9781860468643
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Harvill Press
• Length: 373 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

A Satisfying Nail-Biter!

"Diane Thiberge has just 48 hours, not a minute more." THE STONE COUNCIL starts off fast, and gets faster and more complex as things go along. Inexplicable things start happening, and people start dying. I loved it. The plot revolves around a 30 year old ethologist who specializies in the study of predatory animals. This knowledge serves her well as we unravel the mysteries of who this killer is, why they are killing, why they kill in the creepy ways that they kill, and finally how Diane came to be in the middle of this story. Unraveling all that leads us to explore telepathy, psychokinesis and how the Soviet state funded research in these areas. In the process, we see Diane come to know herself. THE STONE COUNCIL delivers everything you want in a thriller, down to the surprise revelation at the end that brings all the disparate plot elements together at last.

Thrilling!

I thought this book was thrilling! I think you might agree. Read for yourself and you decide!

something very different

this is an unusual book and a very compelling read. the translation is superb. although originally written in french, it is mercifully lacking in froggy aspects. there is plenty of action and excellent characterisation.i bought this book in paperback in switzerland, and observe that paperback editions are available there many months before they come out in the usa or england, which is odd.the occult and the exotic are mingled without descent into the unconvincing. an astonishing scope of geography and ethnology is encompassed.the only fault in the plot is the ridiculous notion that the bad guy would fix up an elaborate car crash to kill the little boy, when that task could have been done much more simply. also the author seems to believe, perhaps a french notion, that there are five states of matter instead of the classical three.nonetheless these are minor criticisms in a truly imaginative thriller that is wonderfully engaging and very well written, though one wonders how much that is due to the translator's skills.