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product_id: 25845309
title: "The Most Dangerous Thing"
brand: "laura lippman"
price: "410 DH"
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reviews_count: 8
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# The Most Dangerous Thing

**Brand:** laura lippman
**Price:** 410 DH
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** The Most Dangerous Thing by laura lippman
- **How much does it cost?** 410 DH with free shipping
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## Description

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			        		Years ago, they were all the best of friends. But as time passed and circumstances changed, they grew apart, became adults with families of their own, and began to forget about the past&#x2014;and the terrible lie they all shared. But now Gordon (&quot;Go-Go&quot;), the youngest and wildest of the five, has died unexpectedly and the other four have come together for the first time in years. Suddenly each of these old friends has to wonder if the dark secret they&apos;ve shared for so long is the reason for their troubles today . . . and if someone within the circle is trying to destroy them all.
						    	
					    	
						
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        		About the Author
        	
        	
        		
        		
	        		
						
			        		Since Laura Lippman&apos;s debut in 1997, she has been recognized as a distinctive voice in mystery fiction and named one of the &quot;essential&quot; crime writers of the last 100 years. Her books have won most of the major awards in her field and been translated into more than twenty languages. She&#xA0;lives in Baltimore and New Orleans with her family.
						    	
					    	
						
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## Customer Reviews

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    "To be forgiven, one first has to admit to being at fault"
  

*by R***N on January 19, 2012*









  
  
    Goodreads Book Description- One of the most acclaimed novelists in America today, Laura Lippman has greatly expanded the boundaries of mystery fiction and psychological suspense.  Set once again in the well-wrought environs of Lippman's beloved Baltimore, it is the shadowy tale of a group of onetime friends forced to confront a dark past they've each tried to bury following the death of one of their number. Rich in the compassion and insight into flawed human nature that has become a Lippman trademark while telling an absolutely gripping story, The Most Dangerous Thing will not be confined by genre restrictions, reaching out instead to captive a wide, diverse audience, from Harlan Coben and Kate Atkinson fans to readers of Jodi Picoult and Kathryn Stockett.Brothers Tim, Sean and Gordon Halloran played ball in a field near Gwen Robison's house on the outskirts of Baltimore. When Gwen and her friend Mickey see them, Mickey tells them they can't play there unless they let the girls join in. Soon, the five of them are exploring the nearby woods, something that would not be allowed today.Fast-forward to the present-day. Gordon, the youngest of the five, stumbles out of a bar. Certain that he's not drunk, he gets in the car and heads home. Then he makes a detour to a dead-end stretch of highway where they used to drag race, and drives into the barrier wall at the end.The remaining four friends, who haven't been close since their early teens, meet for the first time in years at Gordon's funeral. Someone wonders why they stopped hanging around together, and that's when the memories of Chicken George, the strange man who lives in a run down cabin in the woods, begin to resurface.  Although they all vowed, at the time, to never speak of the events of the night of the hurricane, Go-Go's death has brought more questions to the surface.  What really happened that night in the woods and who is truly responsible?Laura Lippman has created another fascinating tale of human nature and its foibles. The narrative alternates between the group's childhood in the late 1970s and the present-day (which requires that the reader pay attention to the chapter headings). As is common in Lippman's novels, the city of Baltimore is almost a character itself.  Tess Monaghan even makes a brief appearance after the death of Go-Go.Lippman uses an unusual technique when chronicling the group's youthful adventures. The narrative is written in first-person plural, referring to the five as "we", but never in the first-person singular. It does provide a feeling of immediacy to events, but unfortunately pulled this reviewer abruptly out of the story. Still, it's a gripping story, and difficult for the reader to put down once begun. 4 stars!
  


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    Where Was The Editor?
  

*by J***B on November 23, 2018*









  
  
    The POV in this book is MIA. The narrator knows way more than s/he could know as a character. You can’t tell what to trust a dad a result, you stop caring about the kids and story. Instead of fixing that issue, they tack on an explanation at the end that’s both too little too late AND too much.  I’d give this a pass.
  


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    Hard to categorize ...
  

*by M***D on October 11, 2011*









  
  
    I found myself hesitating to assign a star rating to this book.  There was much I liked, but there is also a large measure of disappointment.  The book tells the story of five Baltimore kids - three brothers and two girls - who roam a park near their homes in the summer of 1979.  They are not supposed to go deep into the park but their daily trips further and further into the park yield surprises and secret treasures.  Eventually they come upon "Chicken George" - an itinerant black man living in an abandoned shack.  An incident involving Chicken George and two of the children shape the lives of these five characters.The book is told in the present and flashbacks - chapters narrated by different members of the group.  There are veiled references to what happened "that summer".The book is hard to characterize - it is a character study wrapped around a mystery.  Lippman's prose is sometimes achingly poignant about childhood, adolescence and the scars we carry into adulthood.  The ending was not as awful as the build up leads you to believe.  At times the book seem to plod and it was longer than it needed to be.  But the story is telling about what we value and how we see ourselves.  Not the mystery/thriller I was anticipating but worth the time.
  


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