Obedience - Tapa dura

""Obedience" is evidence that crime fiction is hardly a played-out genre .... [G]rafts the world-turned-upside-down suspense of a Harlan Coben thriller to the hall-of-mirrors vertigo of a novel by Paul Auster .... [I]ts ultimate implications continue to spin out in a reader's mind after the final page is turned." --"Wall Street Journal" "Authentic puzzle mysteries are an endangered species in these hectic times, so it's a genuine, if slightly perverse, kick to follow every byzantine clue in this bizarre game.... If you solve this one without peeking at the last chapter, it's an automatic A." --"New York Times" Book Review ""Obedience" is a fiendishly clever thriller, debut or no, and Lavender exhibits deft control at the wheel." --Bookgasm.com ""Obedience" is quite a twisty little number .... the taunting nature of the challenge is irresistible...." --"New York Daily News" "[T]his is one of those high-concept thrillers with a final twist that upends all expectations, filled with characters who are not what they seem." --Entertainment Weekly ""Obedience "is a full course load of sinister fun."--Salon.com An inspired thriller about cognitive dissonance, conjectural misdirection and the conspicuous dichotomy between academia and the real world." --Kirkus Reviews "Will Lavender stuns with this compelling thriller.... The surreal but believable landscape fairly bursts from its confines, goading the reader into finishing just one more page." --"Louisville Courier-Journal ""It's a terrific book, part cat-and-mouse mystery and part psychological study of group behavior.... [A] wonderful book with a strong emotional punch at theend." --"St. Petersburg Times ""Lavender's first novel suggests he has a bright future. The novel is briskly plotted with deft narrative. "Obedience" builds to a swirling conclusion. It becomes a place where morality is blurred and intentions drift astray." --"Tampa Tribune""In his tautly strung debut novel, "Obedience," literature professor Will Lavender tears a page of out Milgram's notebooks and sets into motion a chain of events that escalates far beyond its intended intellectual exercise. . . . Mystery fans will be satisfied to hang on around the story's hairpin turns as the list of suspects swells and narrows with the unearthing of each clue, but Lavender . . . is aiming at a broader target and posing deeper questions." --"Bookpage" "First-time novelist Lavender has a knack for creepy characters and red herrings." --"Library Journal" "First novelist Lavender has sprinkled his text with enough red herrings to feed the Biblical 5,000 but uses them to build page-turning suspense. . . . Lavender's invocation of the notorious Milgram experiment conducted at Yale on obedience to authority adds an additional-and salutary-layer of psychological meaning to his elaborate plot." --"Booklist" More Praise for Obedience: ""Obedience" draws you in and never lets go -- and what a ride!"--David Baldacci "In his dream-like and labyrinthine debut, Will Lavender delivers a clever, intricate page-turner that kept me guessing late into the night. "Obedience "is a house of mirrors where every corner we turn is a false reflection of the truth until the shocking final scene. A gripping exploration of human nature and all its foibles told inLavender's fresh and original voice, "Obedience" is not to be missed."--Lisa Unger "Obedience is a very scary story set on the border where good meets evil, located in this case in that scariest of places, academia. Taut, twisty, and highly original: the pages turned themselves."--Peter Abrahams "A taut and timely thriller that explores the dark side of academia, where classrooms are dangerous and paranoia abounds."--Karin Slaughter "A taut, clever puzzle, so artfully crafted and tightly wound that it springs open its trap when you least expect it to."--Carol Goodman, author of" The Sonnet Lover "and "The Ghost Orchid"" ""A devilishly inventive debut that reads like a house of mirrors. Nothing is what it seems, right up to the devastating finale."""--Brian Freeman, author of "Stripped " "From the Hardcover edition."

Will Lavender lives with his wife and children in Louisville, Kentucky, where he teaches creative writing at various colleges. Obedience is his first novel.