THE PRIMITIVE
About The Primitive
David Webster has the perfect life. He has the coolest wife in town. His house is yuppie heaven with all the original features. His job pays the bills with the minimum of effort.
Never mind that his quiet Southern city has been ripped apart by dead-eyed Wall Street raiders; never mind that the career he loved has vanished, to be replaced by a copywriting gig for a redneck real-estate developer, the only guy left who's making any money. The facade is still intact.
Until he runs the young woman off the road in her car, breaking her arm and knocking her unconscious. Like any good citizen David calls the paramedics. Despite the blizzard of warning signals - no baggage, no credit cards, no identity -- he feels responsible when she absconds from the hospital and reappears staring through his office window; she's hurt, and scared. so why not let her rest up for a few days in one of his boss's many empty properties? Besides, he's curious. What's she running away from?
As for the lust, what happens happens, right? He's never met anyone like her before...
The Primitive is an edgy, sexy and utterly gripping story of betrayal and deceit - artistic, financial, sexual.
Never mind that his quiet Southern city has been ripped apart by dead-eyed Wall Street raiders; never mind that the career he loved has vanished, to be replaced by a copywriting gig for a redneck real-estate developer, the only guy left who's making any money. The facade is still intact.
Until he runs the young woman off the road in her car, breaking her arm and knocking her unconscious. Like any good citizen David calls the paramedics. Despite the blizzard of warning signals - no baggage, no credit cards, no identity -- he feels responsible when she absconds from the hospital and reappears staring through his office window; she's hurt, and scared. so why not let her rest up for a few days in one of his boss's many empty properties? Besides, he's curious. What's she running away from?
As for the lust, what happens happens, right? He's never met anyone like her before...
The Primitive is an edgy, sexy and utterly gripping story of betrayal and deceit - artistic, financial, sexual.
Praise for The Primitive
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"Stephen Amidon performs an impressive balancing act in his erotic thriller...fusing a compassionate analysis of a high-risk love affair with an intriguing and original crime caper." Glynn Maxwell, Vogue
"Woven into the thriller format is a rueful account of worn-out yuppiedom...The Primitive is, at heart, an icy parable of the way we live now." Penny Perrick, The Times
"Amidon uses his story and his wit to make some serious points about the human condition. Above all, though, he understands there really is no substitute for a good plot...This is a book that will appeal to those who like their thrillers steeped in mystery and who like their humour black, with just a little sugar." Louise Guinness, Literary Review
“a fluid, snaky thriller of great momentum…Amidon’s storytelling skill is considerable.”
Stephen Poole. Times Literary Supplement
“absorbing...splashed as it is with amusing anecdotes and reflections on...consumer culture."
Karen Angel, New York Times Book Review.
"a clever piece of story telling -- fast-moving, sexy and with lots of surprises." Publishing News.
"a nice moral parable of a man scorning what he finally becomes, discovering in the process how little control he has over his own existence. Bittersweet, with well-controlled suspense and and underlying sense of desperation." Frances Hegarty Mail on Sunday.
"more than a tense and cleverly worked thriller, for the dying fall of a 10-year-old marriage informs the actions of Amidon's unexceptional protagonist. The pay-off offers no simple resolutions either -- it is concerned with the moral and emotional compromises of modern life, and it resonates beyond the end of the book." Ed Porter The Sunday Times.
"A clever piece of storytelling- fast moving, sexy and with lots of surprises. As a tale of murder and deceit, it rates very highly on the scale." Tim Anderson, Books.
"Con stile teso e nervoso, umorismo genuino e sensualità a profusione, Stephen Amidon, acclamato autore de Il capitale umano mette in scena un universo allucinato in cui tutto può accadere. In cui una banale deviazione sconvolge un’intera vita. In cui una semplice uscita di strada si rivela altrettanto pericolosa dell’attraversamento di uno specchio che riflette il lato in ombra della propria esistenza." Voce Blu
"Stephen Amidon performs an impressive balancing act in his erotic thriller...fusing a compassionate analysis of a high-risk love affair with an intriguing and original crime caper." Glynn Maxwell, Vogue
"Woven into the thriller format is a rueful account of worn-out yuppiedom...The Primitive is, at heart, an icy parable of the way we live now." Penny Perrick, The Times
"Amidon uses his story and his wit to make some serious points about the human condition. Above all, though, he understands there really is no substitute for a good plot...This is a book that will appeal to those who like their thrillers steeped in mystery and who like their humour black, with just a little sugar." Louise Guinness, Literary Review
“a fluid, snaky thriller of great momentum…Amidon’s storytelling skill is considerable.”
Stephen Poole. Times Literary Supplement
“absorbing...splashed as it is with amusing anecdotes and reflections on...consumer culture."
Karen Angel, New York Times Book Review.
"a clever piece of story telling -- fast-moving, sexy and with lots of surprises." Publishing News.
"a nice moral parable of a man scorning what he finally becomes, discovering in the process how little control he has over his own existence. Bittersweet, with well-controlled suspense and and underlying sense of desperation." Frances Hegarty Mail on Sunday.
"more than a tense and cleverly worked thriller, for the dying fall of a 10-year-old marriage informs the actions of Amidon's unexceptional protagonist. The pay-off offers no simple resolutions either -- it is concerned with the moral and emotional compromises of modern life, and it resonates beyond the end of the book." Ed Porter The Sunday Times.
"A clever piece of storytelling- fast moving, sexy and with lots of surprises. As a tale of murder and deceit, it rates very highly on the scale." Tim Anderson, Books.
"Con stile teso e nervoso, umorismo genuino e sensualità a profusione, Stephen Amidon, acclamato autore de Il capitale umano mette in scena un universo allucinato in cui tutto può accadere. In cui una banale deviazione sconvolge un’intera vita. In cui una semplice uscita di strada si rivela altrettanto pericolosa dell’attraversamento di uno specchio che riflette il lato in ombra della propria esistenza." Voce Blu