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    The Interrogation
    The Interrogation
    The Interrogation
    Audiobook7 hours

    The Interrogation

    Written by Thomas H. Cook

    Narrated by George Guidall

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    Thomas H. Cook has twice won Edgar Awards for his finely crafted psychological thrillers, and Breakheart Hill was named the single best mystery novel of the 1990s by the founder of The Mysterious Press. The Interrogation is a desperate race against time and a gripping journey into the darkest corners of the human soul. One day in 1952, the strangled body of 10-year-old Cathy Lake is discovered in a public park. A homeless suspect, Albert Jay Smalls, is arrested and held for interrogation. Now, Officers Norman Cohen and Jack Pierce have only 24 hours to make the sullen young man talk before he's released. How far are they willing to push him to get a confession? As the two policemen gather the many contradictory pieces of evidence, the boundaries between hunter and prey, guilty and innocent, begin to blur. Thomas H. Cook is a master of the surprise ending, and The Interrogation is sure to leave every listener stunned. Audie Awarda-winning narrator George Guidall's performance captures the dramatic urgency of this deeply disturbing tale.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateFeb 27, 2008
    ISBN9781449803179
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    Thomas H. Cook

    Thomas H. Cook is the author of twenty-three books, including The Chatham School Affair, which won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best novel, and, most recently, The Last Talk with Lola Faye.

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    • 5/5
      [The Interrogation] by Thomas H. Cook4.5&#9733'sFrom The Book:Albert Jay Smalls sits in an interrogation room accused of an unspeakable crime. The police have no witnesses, no physical evidence, but they are certain he is hiding the truth. With less than twelve hours before he must be released, Smalls will be put through one final interrogation. It is a search that leads into the shadowed recesses of one man’s shattered mind–and to the devastating secrets buried in a desolate seaside town. It is a quest that takes three desperate cops down a dark, twisting road as they race against the clock to find out what really happened one rainy autumn afternoon in 1952. The answers will be more shocking than anyone can imagine, blurring the boundaries between pursuers and prey, between the innocent and the guilty, between the truth that sets us free and the tragedies that haunt us to the grave.My Thoughts;It was basically based in the police stations interrogation room with a small man that was suspected of killing 8 year old Cathy Lake in the park next to the playground. The two veteran police detectives in charge of getting the truth from the suspect had been at it for days and still the man declares his innocence...but they know that he's guilty of something if not the murder of Cathy. From there the story spreads out to include a junk dealer...a small time con man...two trash collectors...and several other police officers that are several degrees of unprofessional...from slightly dishonest and hiding secrets that would put them off the police force if not in jail....to deceitful and highly untrustworthy. How will these people all come together? With an explosion that will rock your mind. This has been an incredible journey through the darkest depths of human nature.
    • 2/5
      A depressing book about one night in a police station, as two cops try to wrangle a confession out of a homeless man they are convinced murdered a little girl. Other characters float in and out of the story with the promise that all of it will come together in the end, but while there is a hint of closure, even a neatly wrapped up ending would not make this book satisfying. All the characters are either sad, suffering, or mindlessly violent, whether cop or civilian. All-in-all, a nasty little read I wish I'd avoided.
    • 4/5
      This book is one of the most skillful portraits of an interrogation that I have ever read. A little girl has been murdered in a city park on a rainy afternoon in 1952 and the police make one last effort to persuade their suspect to confess. At the same time, they frantically search for evidence but the facts are very tangled and little is as it seems. Very well done.
    • 5/5
      Another novel from the pen of Cook that keeps you guessing all the time. Jack Pierce and Norman Cohen are a formidable interrogation team. Time is running out. Jay Small is being held for the suspected murder of an 8 year girl in a local playground. They have just 12 hours to make Small confess and as time passes this looks more and more unlikely. At 6 am they will have to release him despite their gut feelings that he has killed and will kill again. Outside the interrogation room, the investigation team desperately searches for more evidence. But all those involved in the investigation are carrying their own agendas and the tension mounts as time ebbs away