Let's Go Play at the Adams 2
Description
Twenty years after the horrific murder of a young babysitter a Federal Agent is given a new double murder in a National Forest as one of his last cases. A young man and his girlfriend are found slaughtered and mutilated. There is no connection to the old Adams house killing and this time the war is in the Gulf, not Vietnam. There are wisecracks and gore as we follow Special Agent Tenn Anders on his journey back into time past. This is the worthy sequel to Mendal Johnson's "Let's Go Play at the Adams" and follows all the links left by Johnson with subsequent real events from the Sylvia Likens murder case upon which he based his book.
Let s Go Play at the Adams 2 was originally published under the title Visiting the Adams on the writersfreebooks website. The following are comments posted on that site.
Scream wrote
This was awesome! Spent the last four nights at my computer reading this, and was barely able to tear myself away. I have waited so long for a sequel to Lets Go Play at the Adams'! Thank you!
Ray Girvan wrote
Brilliant work! I've seen attempts at sequels (one a naff S&M adventure, the other a highly lumpen police procedural - both with revisionist happy endings) - but yours is the sequel as I've always felt it should be done, picking up and
running with the very precise suggestions and future characterisations MJ left at the end of LGPATA.
The style is reminds me of James Patterson with even a touch of Chandler and I love the characterisation of the world-weary but humane Anders (and extremely clever in how his character interacts with the plot - how his liking for women, which seems irrelevant, suddenly becomes horribly relevant in blinding him to the possibility of a woman being involved in the crimes). It's a very worthy successor to Johnson in the way it weaves landscape and more than a little philosophy into the story just as he does, but pinned on the cultural angsts of the USA - government power, and war and its relation to torture - a generation later.
Let s Go Play at the Adams 2 was originally published under the title Visiting the Adams on the writersfreebooks website. The following are comments posted on that site.
Scream wrote
This was awesome! Spent the last four nights at my computer reading this, and was barely able to tear myself away. I have waited so long for a sequel to Lets Go Play at the Adams'! Thank you!
Ray Girvan wrote
Brilliant work! I've seen attempts at sequels (one a naff S&M adventure, the other a highly lumpen police procedural - both with revisionist happy endings) - but yours is the sequel as I've always felt it should be done, picking up and
running with the very precise suggestions and future characterisations MJ left at the end of LGPATA.
The style is reminds me of James Patterson with even a touch of Chandler and I love the characterisation of the world-weary but humane Anders (and extremely clever in how his character interacts with the plot - how his liking for women, which seems irrelevant, suddenly becomes horribly relevant in blinding him to the possibility of a woman being involved in the crimes). It's a very worthy successor to Johnson in the way it weaves landscape and more than a little philosophy into the story just as he does, but pinned on the cultural angsts of the USA - government power, and war and its relation to torture - a generation later.
