EYESHOT: The most gripping suspense thriller you will ever read

I am a new Taylor Adams fan! I love his style of writing. I am also usually clever enough (so I think) to guess most twists, but he found ways to keep me guessing. Mostly, because I suck at math and physics and would not have predicted some of the next moves. One thing that I didn't like is that the story never explained how Elle was handcuffed or where the handcuffs even came from. I assume Roy when she was unconscious, but where did he suddenly find them? Why wasn't it mentioned while they were in the car and trying to free his arms from being taped to the gear shift? Am I crazy or did they just magically appear?

I normally do not read books from this genre, but I heard a review from someone on YouTube and decided to check it out. I am very glad I did! This story truly lived up to the genre of thriller/suspense. I was on the edge of my seat through most of it. There are so many twists and turns that it keeps you wanting to read it all the way through in one sitting. I will definitely be checking out more of Taylor Adams' books.

This is one fantastic book. Before I go further, please allow me to digress for a moment...I know a little about movies. From all aspects; acting (didn't do a lot, but it was fun), working as crew (high point was being credited as "Transportation Captain," which is just posh way of saying I was a driver who ran errands and was ever-so-slightly senior to the other driver), to script writer (also a huge amount of fun), wrote scores and recorded soundtracks, etc. etc. There's more, but you get the idea. Merely trying to establish some wee amount of cred, be it ever so humble. And here it is... The thing that ALWAYS amazed me - and still does, frankly - was the simple fact that any movies actually ever get made at all. There are literally thousands of ways in which movies can get derailed, blown up, strangled, starved, or just plain smacked out of this space-time continuum to never ever see fruition. For every movie you see, there are hundreds you never will. When you see red carpet interviews of stars (of all degrees of luminance) who say "... this has been a project of mine for ten years, we're all just so thrilled to have gotten it made blah-blah" then you better believe it.Unlike bands, who generally have only four or five people, plus producer, with their hands on the tiller of their fate, movies are such a collaborative medium that there are dozens, if not hundreds, of people who are all endeavoring to stick their oar in for better or worse trying to influence the course of the film. Even if a movie is helmed by a director with the iron will of a Prussian general, there are still so many ways in which the original source material can go astray. One of the best jokes I know about the film business is worth repeating here: Two studio big shots are raving over a new script they've just read..."So whaddya think about the script? Isn't it absolutely amazing?!" "Totally, it's the best thing I've read in twenty years!""Right! Who do ya think we should get for the rewrite?"Yes, it's exactly like that. Which is why Samuel Goldwyn once said, "Don't improve it into a flop!"Authors, of course, are generally god in their own chosen universe. While they may be nudged in certain directions by their publishers and are constantly subject to their editors who must on occasion convince them that a ten page description of a sunset is excessive, generally they are the whole enchilada. It's their vision and theirs alone. Which is exactly why the aforementioned shenanigans of the movie business more often than not is directly responsible for that depressed feeling you get immediately after watching the screen version of one of your favorite books... oh so rarely does it ever remotely compare to the work of the original author and what he constructed in the mind's eye of the reader.For me, this story evoked tenuously streamed vibes akin to Jim Caviezel's 'The Highwaymen' or even a distant cousin of Spielberg's 'Duel.' The author is a skilled writer and I truthfully could not put it down until I finished it. It gave me the same rush as reading Weir's 'The Martian.' No, it's emphatically not sci-fi in any way or form, but fantastic story telling transcends genres. All of the aforementioned comments about movies are only here to put into perspective the thoughts that, "Wow! This would make a great movie!" Mmm... that's true, yes it would. Indubitably. But the likelihood of that happening is e-x-t-r-e-m-e-l-y low, at least until someone with the sensibilities of Tarantino/Peckinpah and the skills of Hitchcock comes along.So, enjoy this book. It rocks. Books rule.*addendum to the above -Yikes! Excuse me while I try to extricate my foot from my mouth. I've just looked at some of the bio details for Taylor Adams: he's a screenwriter and a director! Well, dog my cats... in that case, I'd have to say that if Mr. Adams was let loose with a sufficient budget, there's every possibility he could create a cinematic cherry on top.

I would give this book 5 stars except for just a couple of things. One, there was a part missing from my download near the end where the wife encountered the deputy. I went back to see if I had accidentally skipped some pages on my Kindle, but I couldn't find the missing scene. So the story took a a little jump forward that was confusing, and I don't know if that was Kindle's fault or if the scene was simply never fleshed out.I'll get to the second thing in a bit. The story is about a couple moving from southern California to Oklahoma, passing through Nevada. They get caught up in a trap set by a psycho hell bent on picking them off one at a time. That's all I'll say about the story because I want to give nothing away. The story is so well-written that your mind makes the movie that this novel should become. Rather than the usual idiot victims who are always about to do something so obviously stupid, you can't help but yell at the screen (when the story is a movie), these characters are actually intelligent, trying to think through their situation, hopeless as it seems to be. They make moves that you might make yourself were you in their shoes. That's what I loved the most about the book.The protagonists are very real, the psycho, too, for that matter, at least as far as one might guess how a psycho's mind works. Rather than leave the inner workings of a crazy killer a mystery, Taylor opens him up to the reader, adding a dimension to a thriller story that is seldom explored. I definitely have to read more of Taylor's books.Now the other thing that irked me just enough to withhold one star was the issue of water. Seems silly, and I realize that the issue is a plot device, but really, would otherwise intelligent people who lived in southern California and were headed across the desert Southwest, really set out with such a tiny amount of water? Really? Then, of course, they lose what little they brought, so things get pretty bad for them. Except they don't get as bad as they really would in that kind of a situation. Actually, in my humble etc, the story would have been just as suspenseful and gripping if Taylor had allowed his heroes all the water they could stand to drink. In fact, the problem with how to deal with full bladders may have been just as interesting to the story as the dehydration they don't really suffer much from but would in real life. But that's my only gripe.Otherwise, I was truly impressed with the book. As I tried to imagine what I would do in that situation, I was hard-pressed to conjure up any alternatives that the characters didn't already. That's the way to write a great thriller.

Kept me interested. It was easy to read, not too detailed as some and kept moving.

This was an extremely good read. The story is one of pure horror and nightmares. Not something that most people would imagine happening to them, but it would certainly terrify the best of us. A couple driving through the Mojave Desert on their way to a new life, unexpectedly break down with no cell phone signal and absolutely no sign of anyone around, apart from a strange police officer who they briefly meet with before they break-down, and a man wandering many miles away from his broken down truck. That is just the start of this extremely strange and horrifying day, and things can only get worse. There are many gory parts, quite a few grimly humorous parts, and many periods of suspense and frustration. The story is written using very descriptive language which clearly paints precise pictures of the action and there are so many twists and turns it is hard to keep up. The reader is certainly kept on the edge of their seat, constantly turning the pages as the end of each chapter finishes on a knife edge. There are times when you honestly believe that something good will happen, only to have your hopes dashed and the nightmare continues. Eventual the end is in sight – but I won’t spoil it for anyone who is yet to read this novel, only to say it’s well worth it. I highly recommend this book and the other two novels by this author as they are also brilliant reads.

Maybe not "the most gripping suspense thriller you will ever read", although it is suspenseful and an entertaining undemanding read. The premise is initially simple, although things (which I won't describe the avoid spoilers) complicate it a bit. A couple travelling by road in a desolate desert area of the US get pinned down by a sniper with almost supernatural shooting abilities. He strands them by shooting up their car engine, then they are apparently completely at his mercy. How the plucky couple get themselves out of this basic situation (as well as other perils) is the core of the story, which switches back and forth between the couple and the sniper himself. If you're interested in guns and shooting (which I'm not) there are what seem to be interesting details about how to shoot long distances and what gun to use, but the story stands up ok even if you don't really appreciate this stuff, which I didn't.

I loved No Exit by the same author, and this is only reason I purchased Eyeshot.Description looked interesting and things certainly started out that way, but somewhere around the last third of the book my attention began to wane. Whilst still enjoying the book, I was looking forward to it ending.It’s probably just me, but I struggled to understand what was going on towards the end, more specifically the locations where particular events were occurring, but whereas the 1st half of the book is a solid 4*, the second half was a 2*.

Being stuck in a valley under a sniper’s gaze for a whole book… snoresville right? Wrong!This book grabs your attention and won’t let go, one piece of bad luck and a few twists and turns after another. My first Taylor Adams book will not be my last; but it.

This is a fast paced and well constructed thriller. Adams has troubled to create the characters and in particular the main protagonist with some ingenuity, avoiding cliches and using fresh ideas. For once I actually cared about the fate of these people. I'm particularly glad that this isn't set up for a series of follow up books as these tend to dumb down many genres because the one person will usually react in the same way to any given stimuli and there is a limit to how many stories any character or group of characters can support while continuing to entertain.This book is fresh and clever, and should be a standalone novel. I look forward to Adam's next book with new players. I hope that Jack Reacher style series become obsolete.