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struggling betweenandstars, Too many references to events and White's otherbooks in the past as he closes the final door on Alan Gregory, This is NOT a standalone, I started withnearlyyears ago, missed a huge chunk in the middle, and decided to read the last three that end the series, However, I'm clueless on all the references to Lauren's tragedies in Holland, Diane's Las Vegas hostage story, Adrienne in Israel, McClelland's diabolical involvement from book, Currie's threats against Alan's and Sam's children, and Sam's and Alan's involvement in the Frederick suicide.
And what was Alan's role Just that he knew about it While I was often lost in not being able to put all the pieces together, and wishing I had read all these stories because they sound so interesting, I kept reading because of this Line of Fire's plot and White's writing.
Captivating. I'll readbut doubt I'll go back and read all the ones I missed, Too many books. Too little time. Thanks, Dustin. My book arrived yesterday, and I have some extra reading time right now, so I ready to get started!

Oh, my, I didn't see any of this coming! I didn't want this book to end, didn't like to think about what was happening to these characters that I have liked so muchand don't want the series to end! I won't say more, don't want to spoil it for my fellow Alan Gregory/Sam Purdy fans.
I was fortunate to receive this ARC of the book since it doesn't release until August, but that means it is just that much longer that I have to wait for the next, and last boohoo book to be out.
This has been a great series I hope Stephen White has plans to write more great stories when he is through with this series, I've been reading the Alan Gregory series since the beginning and I will be sad to see it end, Sometimes I get impatient with Dr, Gregory but he always has good intentions, I must say I was surprised by the ending of this book and I can't wait to read the last in the series, It makes me wonder what Stephen White has in store for us next, once he ends this series, If you are new to this series, start at the beginning or at least go back several books to know the back story, You won't be disappointed. Coming into a series at the nineteenth book is not a good idea! This story was filled with allusions to earlier books in the series that would have evoked memories and emotions for fans of the series but I just found them vague and incomprehensible.
The protagonist of this story is Dr, Alan Gregory who is a psychotherapist in Boulder, Colorado, He is married to an Assistant District Attorney, He is good friends with a Boulder police officer named Sam,

Apparently, some time about three years in the past, Sam murdered an exgirlfriend who was threatening his child and Alan's child and made it look like suicide, Alan knew about the murder after the fact but didn't tell anyone, Now, a new witness has come forward and it looks like their carefully constructed tissue of lies is about to be exposed,

Meanwhile, Alan's partner Diane is falling apart from a combination of traumas that occurred in earlier books, marital troubles with her venture capitalist husband, and hatred for her home outside of Boulder.
All during the book, Boulder is under threat from various wildfires raging through the area,

Alan also has a couple of new patients, One is the young man who was in a coma in the room where Sam and Alan discussed the new investigation of Sam's murder, The young man that Sam and Alan call Coma Doe intends to blackmail Alan into helping him find Sam in order to get some leverage for his own potential drug conviction.
Alan's other new patient is a woman who is having a relationship with Diane's husband and who seems to be using Alan for her own purposes,

The story was complex and the different plot threads were entwined in many ways, I will have to say that I didn't like Alan or Sam very much at all, I couldn't understand their decision to force someone to commit suicide and then cover it up, I also thought that Alan was overanalytical, He never seemed to turn off his role as a psychotherapist, He also seemed to skate around his ethics fairly often, Sam was also an ambiguous character,

Some of the vocabulary in the story also sent me to my online dictionary, I am assuming that the word choices were specific vocabulary to psychotherapy, I know there were two or three words that I had never heard of or had never encountered in anything else I had read, This almost never happens to me as a reader and slowed down the flow of the story for me,

This story may well work better for those who have read previous volumes and who have an emotional connection to the main characters, While I thought the story was interesting, I didn't make an emotional connection to it, This one is only recommended to those who have read other books in the series, I didn't find it a good entry point, Alan Gregory and his police friend Sam Purdy are complicit in the murder of a woman who had threatened to murder both Alan and Sams children, Sam committed the murder but Alan knew about it and kept quiet, Sam thought he had committed the perfect crime but, instead, had made the perfect error, he had been seen by a witness, While both men are waiting for the ball to drop, Lauren, Alans wife is shot multiple times,

Line of Fire was a long read but a good read, Dick Hill did a great job in storytelling,
rereading this to prepare myself for final book in the series, wanted to have all the back story fresh in my mind so the final

book would flow for me,















, only reason it didn't get more from me is because I had a hard time in the beginning all the back and forth between previous story lines I kept trying to figure the previous stuff out go back in my memory to remember what happened with McClennan,etc.
When I let that go, I enjoyed the book, then at a point, everything just starts to explode and happen,

Of course this leaves it set up for the final book and I know I'm not going to like finding out what really happened at the end of this book.
In some ways, I'm hoping it's like a soap opera and the character you like didn't really die it just seemed they did,





I am fortunate enough to get an advanced copy to read This is one of my very favorite series, so reading it may be bitter sweet knowing it's going to end How Stephen Got His Groove Back.

I was disappointed by The Last Lie, but White is back in fine form with this one, I blew through it licketysplit, I might have even gone with five if not for all the stuff about Amanda's brother's boners yes, THAT kind of boner, That got old, and didn't contribute much to the plot,

Things get pretty chaotic in Boulder for Alan Gregory and Sam Purdy, what with forest fires and psychos and friends who lose their coping skills, not to mention the stirring up of old diabolical deeds that Alan and Sam thought they'd gotten away with.
If anyone really had a life like these guys, they'd have perpetual PTSD,

The next Alan Gregory book will be the last in thisyearlong series, White left a lot of things wide open at the end of Line of Fire, so he's got plenty of options for how to tie it all up in the grand finale.
One more book to go until the conclusion of this series, It's the author's prerogative to wrap up his series any which way he wants, How the reader feels about it is, . . not entirely irrelevant, but is another discussion all together,

There is one more book to go in the Alan Gregory series, and this one,, is essentially part one of the two part finale, I have opinions about how he's choosing to treat the characters, Who lives, who dies, who's banging who and why, None of that matters.

But the glaring plot holes Without inserting a spoiler, the entirety of the case at the center of the story boils down to a clue that is so easily explained away that all the handwringing angst over it just seems preposterous.
And I'm not sure where Alan's, . . pathological need to assume the burden of Sam's guilt comes from not a spoiler, trust me, that's there from Chapter,

Two is stingy, but three would be too generous, Let's call it two and a half and I'll round down, Years ago Dr. Alan Gregory was an accessory to the murder of a woman who was planning to kill his and other children, He was home free until is case is reopened, Fires rage around Boulder, Colorado, triggered another woman to crack and attempt murder, A terrible price will be paid, This is an interesting read, After reading this Stephen White novel,I definitely want to read some more of his work! In this novel,we really see a man balance work and family life,all the while dealing with an unexpected forest fire.
Authorities have just reopened an investigation,and when psychologist Alan Gregory and his friend Sam Purdy reveal more details about it,they inadvertently become suspects, As if that weren't enough,Alan soon meets a new patient who has a darker side, Can he clear both of their names Is his job on the line Will the raging fires destroy everything Read it and find out! An unexpected treat bookwise, To call this book explosive is the understatement of the year, Anyone wishing to pick this book up ought to be prepared before doing so, Let's do a quick checklist to ensure all areas have been covered: a have read all the previous books in the series in order, b be ready for some hefty psychotherapeutic language in the opening third of the book, and c refrain from skimming or reading the book without paying full attention.
While White is known for his anticlimactic story lines and his twists and turns from beginning to end, this book takes it all to a new level, Weaving together all the known characters into two major plot lines that keep the fastpaced action moving and leave devastation in its rearview mirror, White has moved things up into high gear for his readers and does not disappoint, While some areas do tie off nicely, others are left with loose ends and no apparent conclusion,

Placing the regular protagonists in their opposing roles is something with which White has little background, We assume the good ones will always remain good and the villains will always perpetrate evil, Alas, this idea is turned on its head and the reader is left to wonder, what does White have in store if he can so easily reverse the roles that have been fostered and have grown overnovels.


When White released the news that his editor would permit him only two more books in the Alan Gregory series, I was greatly distressed, Having listened to the entire series, with Dick Hill at the audio helm, I have come to know these characters so well, When LINE OF FIRE was released, I was not sure what to expect, but reviews began flooding in with praise and 'warning, cliffhanger' comments from many, Instead of playing the literary possum, White delivers a spectacular penultimate novel, He forges ahead and leaves nothing in the writer's tank, which is much to the reader's liking, I can only imagine what White has in store for us in the last of the series, And, the itching question will there be a new series to replace it

Kudos do not seem to be enough, Mr, White. A true master! I was disappointed in this book, Sure it was nice to hear about the characters that I have been following in all of Stephen's others books but all in all it was readers digest quality story.

Maybe it is good that Stephen is going to move into another direction because it feels like he has lost the momentum to write for his readers or maybe he is bored with the characters.
I got it for a dollar which wasCents too much, AtCents I would have given itstars,/stars. This review is based on an abridged audio version, I always enjoy Whites books set in Boulder featuring psychologist Dr, Alan Gregory, and this one is more of the same, I usually find abridged books to be a disappointment, and this one is more of the same, The abridgment results in some short chunks of plot that dont feel complete, I suspect the full version of the book contains plenty of detail that would make it feel more satisfying, Afterbooks you'd expect a formula plot and few surprises, Not this series. This one smacked me around more than once, I've no idea where things will go in the finale, Great books. I really enjoy this author's skilled and clever use of language he not only expresses ideas clearly by use of a precise vocabulary, but he also creates a tone of familiarity between the readers and the characters by his naturally conversational writing style.
I listened to this one on audio book as I walked for exercise, so I can't quote exact lines, The characters who populate this series of books are some of my favorites they are developed so fully that they seem like people I know, These books are entirely independent stories, but the ending of this one leaves me wondering if White intends to continue the series, bittersweet. Knowing that this is the beginning of the end makes this a hard book to pick up, As if by not reading it I can postpone the ending of this series, Of course I can't, and once I picked it up, it was hard to put down, I haven't read all the books in this series yet, but I was given an oppertunity to read an ARC of this book and I couldn't pass that up, There was a LOT of catching up to do and honestly I had no idea what was going on at the beginning of this book, I was able to catch up and the story was great.
I think that for those that have read each and every book it would be a better story, but I really had a hard time putting this one down, I know I may have missed a lot, but I have no doubt that I will read the ones I have thus far not and then reread this one in order, so that I can fully enjoy this one.
only because of the confusion at the beginning and picking up a lot of the background was hard, this won't be an issue for those that have read all the books, but for those of us that haven't it was hard at the start.
This is the next to last book in the Alan Gregory series and it may very well be the best yet, I was lucky enough to get an ARC from the moderator of my Stephen White group, who got ten from the author to give out to our group, The story is far superior to the last one in the series, The Last Lie, which I found disappointing, This entry is gripping from beginning to end, continuing major story lines from Missing Persons and Dry Ice and dropping in references to other entries as well, The interaction between Alan and Sam is especially strong, as is the depiction of the deterioration of Alan's relationship with his colleague Diane, The story focuses primarily on the ramifications of the dirty deed committed by Sam, with Alan's later knowledge and approval of, at the end of Dry Ice, as well as Diane's emotional meltdown following her kidnapping and friend's arrest in Missing Persons.
Alan's patients find their way into the stroyline mix in very interesting and consequential ways, The ending is surprising and powerful and sets up major complications to be resolved in the final chapter, This is a must for fans of White's Alan Gregory series and will make you sad that the series is coming to a close, Highly recommended. .