The Styx Complex

by Russell Rhodes

Book Overview

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553113801
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

T H R I L L I N G , R O M A N T I C , P A G E - T U R N E R !!!!!

THIS IS A HARD-TO-PUT-DOWN, WELL-WRITTEN, FASCINATING, CHILLING, AND wonderfully romantic page-turner! MICHAEL DE PASSE is an adventurer, HUGH MARLOW is a ship-captain, and SARA is a beautiful young orphan, 17 years old, who becomes the ward of AVA BARDOFF, a world-famous cosmetics queen. Ava seems kind....but events prove she is truly up to no good. The very beginning tells of several well-known people committing suicide....seemingly for no reason. Is Ava involved? (Yep!) Is Sara in deadly danger? (Naturally!) Does Michael de Passe and Hugh Marlow come to her aid? Yes. But this is far from a simplistic novel. Like the underground "Styx Complex" (which is a place, not a psychological disorder), there are twists and turns galore -- danger seems everywhere, in every place....from the sunny seas and tranquil ship captained by Hugh Marlow, to Ava Baroff's glamourous salon suite, to....the horrendous undergound Styx Complex itself! Think of every fear you have ever had. (With the possible exceptions of quicksand and insects, this story sure has just about every fear I'VE ever had!) The story here is SO well-written! So chilling! And....it just could actually have happened / be happeing right now! There is a huge suprise ending near the very end. Is there a happy ending? I'd be giving things away if I said whether there is or not. One thing I will say....you will doubt a happy ending several times during this thrilling book! P.S. There was a mention, in the first copy I bought of this book, that it would soon be made into a movie. I have searched and searched for the movie version of this book....but have not found it. The thoght crosses my mind that perhaps there really IS an "Ava Bardoff" equivalent -- either a person or a consortium == who applied pressure so that this book NOT be made into a movie. Just a guess on the part of this reluctant conspiracy-theorist.....but this book is SO realistically written, with so convincing a plot (which COULD be really happening, after all...as this is NOT sci-fi, or fantasy....but simply a drama...a deadly, chillingly maybe- actually-could-be drama) -- that one truly wonders.....(shudder!!!!!) Buy this book! For fans of well-written, thrilling, romantic, somewhat-conspiracy-theory, novels....it is a must-read! (Best read when NOT alone!!!!!)