El psicoanalista (Edición décimo aniversario)

Dr. Frederick Starks, a psychologist, just turned 53, receives a letter on his birthday informing him that he has ruined the life of the letter-writer's mother and that his own life is about to be destroyed. Soon his credit cards and bank accounts disappear, he is accused of the sexual harassment of a patient, and a client commits suicide. He is told that if he does not discover the identity of the letter-writer's mother within two weeks, he must commit suicide or a member of his family will be killed. The only clue he has to the letter-writer is that he calls himself Rumpelstiltskin and a beautiful girl who delivers messages. "R" always seems to be one step ahead of him and Starks is soon baffled and undure what to do next as his life crumbles around him.
Starks decides he has but one course of action: to die. Without giving too much away, Starks fakes his death and assemblies several new identities for himself as he seeks to discover who is behind the plot to destroy him and why. This book is a real page turner, as frustrating as The Castle, until Starks reassembles his life and seeks the answers to his torment..

The first third of the book is filled with lively, fast paced prose that matches the complicated, yet disorienting, storyline of a psychotherapist whose life is taken over by forces unknown and beyond this control. The remaining two sections degenerate into gratuitous revenge and voice-over narratives.

One of the best mysteries I have read in a long time. The plot twists and turns so quickly that I was glued to the pages. The author on his one did a great job of making me feel like I was part of the plot. Wonderfuly scary through the use of intelectual work, not just bodies and blowing things up.