The author Peter Straub is an American writer who has written many novels in the horror genre including some collaboration with Stephen King, one of his dear friends. Other of his novels can fall into the sci-fi genre and occasionally under thrillers. As a long-term writer he researches each book carefully and sometimes it may come across as too wordy or pretentious, when it's more likely that Straub has allowed his great expertise of writing and words in general to show through. He is a very knowledgeable and sometime sophisticated writer and this shows better when he's writing on such topics as war or thrillers. Unfortunately the books he has written with ...  Read the complete review