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Giles Blunt: Cold Eye (USA 1989) From the Publisher: Bellisle says he can help Nick -for a price - and proceeds in chilling fashion to prove his point. He can foresee the deaths of others and can thus position Nick to achieve the reality that has eluded him in his murder paintings. Success, huge success, soon comes, but at a price beyond the misty borders of nightmare. How thin the membrane between witness and participant. between recording artist and unwitting subject. between executioner and con-demned, is the reiterated lesson of the mysterious Bellisle and his Faustian pupil. With no louder volume than the flittering squeak of a bat in a closed, dark room and offering as delicately terrifying an effect as a cold breath on the back of the neck at hearthside, Giles Blunt spins a tale of controlled guignol. Cold Eye is as inevitable as myth and as horrifyingly persuasive as tomorrow's mayhem headlines. Giles Blunt: Cold Eye. Arbor House / William Morrow, ISBN: 1557100470 (June, 1989), 288 p., $16.95.
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