The Sentinel
New York Times Bestseller #2"The mystery mounts inexorably until the truth emerges rationally but savagely. It would mar the sanctity of the plot to divulge more than the fact that it implicates religious fanatics...Mr. Konvitz has a keen sense of sophisticated terror.Los Angeles Times-Book Review"A New York based suspense story with a lovely young heroine...a sinister upper west side brownstone, lots of Roman Catholic-cum-Milton-plus Dante mysticism and some absolutely hair-raising sequences"Cue Magazine."Konvitz has written more than a novel...it appeals to anyone concerned with good and evil." Los Angeles Herald Examiner"The mass market reading market that was secured, especially by theExorcist, was then consolidated by the appearance of such books as Ira Levin'sThe Stepford Wives,Stephen King's first published novel,Carrie,Robert Morosco'sBurnt Offerings,Jeffrey Konvitz'sThe Sentinel andKing'sSalem's Lot." The Philosophy of Horror, Cornell University Press, by Professor Noel Carrol.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.