Lyndsey, a young woman, graduates from theater school with honors.
But her promising future is shattered when she is gang-raped by all
eleven drug-high members of a cricket team hours later. While receiving
treatment at a hospital justice was perverted to protect the offenders
who were sons of wealthy or influential people, including a police
chief, and a trumped-up charge was instead brought against Lyndsey. She
however disappears from hospital, never to be seen again until the end
of the story.
Several
years later all but the captain of the cricket team have met violent
deaths, mostly sex-related. Right from her disappearance from hospital,
we are made to believe that Lyndsey’s sister Linda was hiding her and
taking revenge by seducing and killing the men. The problem then is how
to find them and prevent the final member from extermination.
The ending however is a disappointing anti-climax. Linda fails at
killing her last victim who in turn rapes her in anger, an act which
terrifies and transforms her into the persona of the helpless Lyndsey.
We are told that all along, Lyndsey has in fact been acting out three
different personalities—Linda, a cunning, rich, manipulative
professional call girl bent on revenge; Deborah, a shy computer wiz kid
who became Linda’s tenant and
flatmate; and herself, a helpless woman needing protection.
Excepting the disappointing ending, the book was mostly interesting
reading. It was current in world events (as at 1998, the time of
reading), with a reference to the genocide in Rwanda. It was
particularly very current in computing—information technology,
networking, the Internet, programming, Windows and so on.
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