MONSTER by Jeffrey Konvitz
Boring! This is one turgid, overlong excuse for a "thriller" ... Jeffrey Konvitz was clearly banking on another big budget adaptation like his breakout hit The Sentinel, but this by-the-numbers potboiler didn't catch anyone's eye in Hollywood, and for good reason. From the convoluted setup (oil is discovered beneath Loch Ness, and exploration by the Gemini Company disturbs Nessie) to the following lack of monster action (she gets two "big" scenes that are over far too quickly) this novel just fails to deliver. It doesn't help that it seems like Konvitz tossed his monster research off in an afternoon and fills most of the book with his two-fisted hero's battle against a nasty piece of mercenary trash named Lefebre (that's lah-FAYVE by the way), the security head for Gemini Oil.
Oh well, at least there's a nice step-back and map.
0/4
Ballantine Books, 1982
THE SENTINEL novel is utter hackwork--dialogue straight out of coffee commercial, relationships from soaps, cops from Kojak, horror from popular religious horror movies.
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Jeffrey Konvitz is married to action movie heroine Jillian McWhirter.
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