From "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize winner Kem Nunn and "principal
heir to the tradition of Raymond Chandler and Nathanael West" ("The
Washington Post")--an intense psychological suspense novel about a
San Francisco neuropsychiatrist who becomes sexually involved with
a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder, whose
pathological ex-husband is an Oakland homicide detective.
A dark tale involving psychiatric mystery, sexual obsession,
fractured identities, and terrifyingly realistic violence--"Chance"
is set amid the back streets of California's Bay Area, far from the
cleansing breezes of the ocean. Dr. Eldon Chance, a
neuropsychiatrist, is a man primed for spectacular ruin. Into Dr.
Chance's blighted life walks Jaclyn Blackstone, the abused,
attractive wife of an Oakland homicide detective, a violent and
jealous man. Jaclyn appears to be suffering from a dissociative
identity disorder. In time, Chance will fall into bed with her--or
is it with her alter ego, the voracious and volatile Jackie Black?
The not-so-good doctor, despite his professional training, isn't
quite sure--and thereby hangs his fascination with her. Meanwhile,
Chance also meets a young man named D, a self-styled, streetwise
philosopher skilled in the art of the blade. It is around this trio
of unique and dangerous individuals that long guarded secrets begin
to unravel, obsessions grow, and the doctor's carefully arranged
life comes to the brink of implosion.
Amid San Francisco's fluid, ever-shifting fog, in the cool, gray
city of love, Dr. Chance will at last be forced to live up to his
name. "Chance" is a twisted, harrowing, and impossible-to-put-down
head trip through the fun house of fate, mesmerizing until the very
last page.
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