Cari Mora: A Novel

Thomas Harris

May 2019 · Sold by Grand Central Publishing

About this ebook

A resilient young woman must outwit a sadistic psychopath in this pulse-pounding thriller from the author of The Silence of the Lambs, a "master still at the top of his strange and chilling form" (Wall Street Journal).

Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men.

Cari Mora, caretaker of the house, has escaped from the violence in her native country. She stays in Miami on a wobbly Temporary Protected Status, subject to the iron whim of ICE. She works at many jobs to survive. Beautiful, marked by war, Cari catches the eye of Hans-Peter as he closes in on the treasure. But Cari Mora has surprising skills, and her will to survive has been tested before.

Monsters lurk in the crevices between male desire and female survival. No other writer in the last century has conjured those monsters with more terrifying brilliance than Thomas Harris. Cari Mora, his sixth novel, is the long-awaited return of an American master.

Ratings and reviews

I can't get into this book at all!! I don't believe I have ever read something and not finished it & I have never given 1 star,maybe one day I will finish it and change my review. The characters are so so Boring & Flat the only exception is Hans Peter. I personally do not recommend this book, sorry maybe it's just me but I read all kinds of books and this one fell very very Flat!

i can now, at least, say that I've read every Thomas Harris book. He set the bar high with his first five; Cari Mora does not reach that standard. Three stars may be high given the author's prior success. It's short, almost a short story. Neither the protagonist nor antagonist have arcs. Consider the rich, long, complex climax of Hannibal; in comparison, the anti-climax of Cari Mora is over in a few unsatisfying pages. The eponymous Cari Mora has little development, little dialogue, and none of it interesting. The vilanious antagonist Hans-Peter is the only person of interest in a revolting Mason Verger way, but there's little substance. Why did he turn out that way? We won't ever know. His was rhe only interesting "dialogue," and it was only with himself. There's nothing wrong with the writing. Whatever musical prose was in "Silence" is absent here.

Really liked the characters.

About the author

Thomas Harris is the author of six novels and may be best known for his character Hannibal Lecter. All of his books have been made into films, including most notably the multiple Oscar winner, The Silence of The Lambs. Harris began his writing career covering crime in the United States and Mexico, and was a reporter and editor at the Associated Press in New York.