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Meeting evil

Meeting Evil tells an adrenaline-pumped, genuinely frightening tale of malevolence that swerves swiftly and irrevocably to a catastrophic climax. John Felton meets evil late one Monday morning when the doorbell rings. Standing on the front porch is a stranger. He wears expensive running shoes and a baseball cap and calls himself Richie. He tells John his car has stalled and asks for help. An altercation at the gas station leads to a shocking crime as violence begets violence. At the end of this harrowing day, John returns home to find Richie ensconced in his living room, chatting up his wife. The evil has somehow seeped into his life. Thus begins the transformation of an unremarkable husband and father of two into a desperate man willing to go to any length to protect his family from the darkness that threatens them. This is an extraordinary masterpiece and a chilling portrait of mounting menace played out against an everyday world of domestic routine, personified in a protagonist of basic decency grappling with both the immediate and existential meaning of true evil. Now a major motion picture starring Samuel L. Jackson and Luke Wilson.

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  • "A man is led into a string of disastrous events when a stranger asks for his help with a stalled car."
  • "Meeting Evil tells an adrenaline-pumped, genuinely frightening tale of malevolence that swerves swiftly and irrevocably to a catastrophic climax. John Felton meets evil late one Monday morning when the doorbell rings. Standing on the front porch is a stranger. He wears expensive running shoes and a baseball cap and calls himself Richie. He tells John his car has stalled and asks for help. An altercation at the gas station leads to a shocking crime as violence begets violence. At the end of this harrowing day, John returns home to find Richie ensconced in his living room, chatting up his wife. The evil has somehow seeped into his life. Thus begins the transformation of an unremarkable husband and father of two into a desperate man willing to go to any length to protect his family from the darkness that threatens them. This is an extraordinary masterpiece and a chilling portrait of mounting menace played out against an everyday world of domestic routine, personified in a protagonist of basic decency grappling with both the immediate and existential meaning of true evil. Now a major motion picture starring Samuel L. Jackson and Luke Wilson."@en
  • "John Felton, prototypical husband, father of two, and real-estate salesman, is interrupted while eating breakfast by a disturbing stranger who asks for his help with a stalled car. John's assent, an automatic if grudging gesture of politeness, quickly leads him into a string of disastrous events, including a tabloid-worthy crime spree in which he is an unwitting accomplice to robbery, kidnapping, arson, and murder. More unnerving still is the stranger's stonyfaced, near-convincing contention that each barbarous crime is an act of kindness and protectiveness.--jacket"
  • "Good and evil collide in the story of John Felton, an ordinary real-estate salesman who comes to the aid of a stranger with a stalled vehicle, and who finds himself involved in a crime spree of kidnapping, arson, and murder."@en
  • "Good and evil collide in the story of John Felton, an ordinary real-estate salesman who comes to the aid of a stranger with a stalled vehicle, and who finds himself involved in a crime spree of kidnapping, arson, and murder."
  • "El timbre suena en la casa de John Felton. Del otro lado esta el mal. Lleva zapatillas deportivas caras, una gorra de beisbol, y dice llamarse Richie. Le pide ayuda a John con su coche, que ha sufrido un desperfecto. Un altercado en la gasolinera conduce a un crimen espantoso, y John se ve envuelto en una espiral de violencia cada vez mas terrible. Cuando por fin consigue librarse de Richie y regresar a su casa, vuelve a encontrarselo alli, comodamente instalado en su salon, charlando con su esposa."

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  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Black humor (Literature)"

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  • "Rencontre avec le mal : roman"
  • "Meeting evil"
  • "Meeting evil"@en
  • "Meeting evil a novel"
  • "Meeting evil : a novel"@en
  • "Meeting evil : a novel"
  • "El rostro del mal"@es
  • "El rostro del mal"

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