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The Machine
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A psychiatrist built a machine to read minds, but during testing, he exchanged body with the case study, a psychopath who murdered 3 women. The psychopath now in the doctor's body, decided to continue his way of murder, starting with the doctor's family. |
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From: anonymous cj
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It's also a novel!!!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802114377/103-9387826-8586265?v=glance&vi=reviews
Machine/a Novel
by Rene Belletto, Lanie Goodman
From Publishers Weekly
French suspense writer Belletto ( Eclipse ) begins his new novel
with a shocking scene--10-year-old Leonard Lacroix planning to stab
his mother in bed--but the extended flashback that comprises almost
all the remainder of the text doesn't live up to the opening. The
boy's father, Paris psychiatrist Marc Lacroix, invents a machine
that will allow him to peek into the mind of his deranged patient,
serial killer Michel Zyto. But something goes wrong: Lacroix gets
trapped in Zyto's body; the psychopath convinces everyone he is the
doctor; and it becomes open season on the women in Marc's life. In
a final twist the first chapter gives away, Zyto manages to swap
shapes with Leonard. Belletto fails to make the story's scientific
and psychological elements convincing, and his ability to keep the
various characters distinct is sorely tested by the number of
different bodies they inhabit. At its best, the writing is slick
and efficient, but at its worst it equals the plot in mechanistic
implausibility.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Marc Lacroix is a rich French psychiatrist who has secretly built a
computer that allows brain impulses to be exchanged between two
creatures. After careful testing, he decides that he and one of his
tame psychotics will try a brief swap. But alors! it goes wrong.
What follows is a gripping yarn of terror and imagination. As Marc
and Zyto, his patient, pursue each other through Paris, no one else
realizes the menace of this terrible transformation. Indeed, Zyto
completely captivates Marc's wife, son, friends, and colleagues,
leaving only Marc's mistress to help him undo the disaster. As in a
nightmarish chess game, Zyto counters every move until he controls
the game and launches his own attack. Belletto (France's answer to
Michael Crichton?) is totally convincing; seldom is suspending
disbelief more chillingly rewarded. This work has a nice
translation, interesting setting, and cast of engrossing
characters. Well recommended.
- Ann Donovan, St. Petersburg Jr. Coll. Lib. , Fla.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
What if an eminent psychiatrist--in order to get a closer look
inside the mind of his showcase psychopathic patient--used a gizmo
he'd cooked up at home to introject his own mind into the patient's
body, while the patient, finding his own mind transferred to the
psychiatrist's body, took off on a rampage? The idea isn't as new
as it sounds--apart from the rough Jekyll/Hyde analogy, H.G. Wells
published a closely similar story over 50 years ago--but Belletto's
juiced it up with some psychological jargon, a 12-cylinder suspense
plot, and some shocking misogyny. Michel Zyto, the patient, has a
history of sexual violence, and his masquerade as the beloved
bourgeois Dr. Marc Lecroix is punctuated by his violent fantasies
concerning Marc's inoffensive wife Marie (who's pleased by the
renewed attention she's getting from her erstwhile indifferent
husband) and Marc's mistress, actress Marianne Matys (who continues
to enjoy lovemaking with Marc even though he's locked inside the
body of an escaped mental patient). The question of how to define
the two men's identities as their minds adapt to their bodies and
they protectively take on each other's habits as camouflage is an
intriguing one--where does the body stop and the mind begin, and
which one finally determines who you are?--but Belletto is less
interested in such conundrums than in pitting his unlikely twins
against each other, as Zyto uses his success in the masquerade to
keep one step ahead of Marc, and Marc plays on Zyto's hypochondria
to persuade him that he can't stay in Marc's body forever. Only the
shrill climax and its somber epilogue, in which Marc survives the
switch to face life after Zyto, mar the sleek, suspenseful,
mindless battle of wits. And most readers, unless they've read
Belletto's curious anti-thriller Eclipse (1990), will scarcely
notice the muted ending. -- Copyright �1993, Kirkus Associates, LP.
All rights reserved.
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
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