The Executor
Reviewers were happy to celebrate Jesse Kellerman's ability to fuse the psychological novel with crime story conventions and produce something entirely original. They particularly enjoyed Joseph Geist's unreliability as a narrator; from the start, his neuroses and fixations guarantee that something awful will befall the man, but Kellerman allows the story to unfold at just the right pace to keep readers guessing exactlywhat. Critics also loved the unexpected ending, hinting that if what doesn't kill Geist doesn't exactly make him stronger, it at least helps him finally discover the meaning of free will.