Eve by James Hadley Chase (Epub)

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Eve: mysterious, tantalizing, alluring, wanton. Deep within this desirable but strange girl burns the violent fire that could destroy a man.

Clive Thurston had swindled his way to fame. He thought he knew the ropes and women. Maybe he did. But he didn’t know Eve, otherwise he’d have realized that he was just another fly stumbling into the deadly web of a woman who was beautiful to look at, but lethal to love.

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⭐ Eve was the downfall of Adam when she, at the behest of the serpent, cajoled him into eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge. In James Hadley Chase’s 1945 thriller, “Eve,” Clive Thurston blames his downfall on a tart, a call girl, named Eve, who somehow bewitched him, although she is indifferent and cold to him. This novel is a walk through the life of a man plagued by guilt and feelings of unworthiness because his playwriting and Hollywood screenwriting is all based on a play he stole from the home of a writer-friend who conveniently had a heart attack. Despite having risen to fame and brief fortune, Thurston lives in fear that he will one day be found out as a fraud and a thief and cannot for the life of him write another successful work. This guilt and shame ties in with his obsession with Eve.Although this story is yet another one about an insider’s view of Hollywood, it is unlike most Hollywood soap operas and it is about obsession and guilt and paranoia. Is Clive Thurston just some scurrilous rat? Is he being an honest narrator or is he even more horrible than he admits? How did the writer end up conveniently having a heart attack? Was Eve really this beguiling evil woman or was Thurston a mad stalker who simply wouldn’t leave her alone? Was Thurston simply powerless to resist her or was he a heartless womanizer? Were the head of major studios out to get him or was he just another failed writer who blamed his lack of success on others? There is something compelling about the way Chase presents this story through the eyes of Thurston, a cheat, a fraud, a cad.

⭐ I actually first read this novel over 30 years ago. I have just finished reading it again and I can certainly confirm it as a masterpiece by my standards.A scene that would take most Best Selling authors a page or two to paint takes James Hadley Chase just a few lines and you will get the picture crystal clear . The logic and psychology of the events and characters are both consistent and sound. It gose without saying that in this day and age, with all the various gadgets that compete for our leisure time, any writer that beats about the bush for too long will lose his audience. Well, Chase definitely can’t be accused of that. He grips you once he gets you!

⭐ I have read many of James Hadley Chase’s books and enjoyed most of them. Eve is one of a few that I did not enjoy. If you have not read James Hadley Chase’s books, I would recommend that you read some other book by him than Eve as this book might put you off reading so many of his other books that are so enjoyable.

⭐ The book was okay, but it was very very dated a.d quite slow going. I used to enjoy J.H.C.,but feel I may have outgrown him now.

⭐ The Only James Hadley Chase book i have been disappointed in – not for me

⭐ It seems like a change of scene compared to his other books I have read, nonetheless, it is generally within his genre.

⭐ Dans sa biographie Chase le considere comme son meilleur . On comprend pourquoi en le lisant .Il ne s ‘agit pas d ‘ un roman policier mais d ‘ un drame psychologique .Chase analyse en profondeur les effets destructeurs d une passion obsessionnelle .un livre puissant et passionnant à dévorer très vite .

⭐ I loved and

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