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Jumper | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard Barth
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 2062516
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 0312266081
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780312266080
ASIN: 0312266081
Publication Date: September 14, 2000
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Condition: Sticker from store that was bought out is still on cover, very minimal shelf wear. May have a remainder mark.Large selection of books!!!
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Product Description
Richard Barth departs from his popular series featuring elderly sleuth Margaret Binton to introduce Dr. Samuel Garvey, the best and most daring roller coaster designer in the country, and to take his readers on the ride of their lives.
Garvey is now at work on his masterpiece, the Jumper, for the Angelus Corporation in Texas. The Jumper will do just that-the two cars will jump tracks with each other in the middle of the ride travelling over a 60 foot gap 75 feet in the air. This is the ride that will make or break Garvey as a designer and he is taking every step to insure that it is successful.
While in the middle of designing Jumper, he receives a phone call from Rachael White of the National Transportation Safety Board. She explains to him that there was an accident at the Cyclone in Coney Island and that she would like his help. It soon becomes clear that the accident wasn't an accident, but sabotage. What is even more disturbing is that the assailant left a note tying the crash to other recent "accidents" and threatening to strike again. But where? And why?
As the mystery unfolds and another tragedy is barely averted, the danger is closer to Garvey than he ever could have imagined. Not only is someone after his reputation, but also his life. An exhilarating novel that will leave you as breathless as the passengers on the Jumper.
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LIKE A MADE FOR TV MOVIE August 29, 2004
JUMPER by Richard Barth reminds me of one of those glossy tv movies that puts somebody like David Hasselhoff and Jaclyn Smith together in a suspenseful, if somewhat unbelievable, plot. However, like some tv movies, this one isn't so bad.
Sam Garvey, a world renowned roller coaster designer, discovers that someone is sabotaging roller coasters across the country, resulting in death and injuries to many. He is joined by Rachel White, a National Transportation Safety agent, to try and figure out who this madman is, and why the notes left behind are signed by a Greek god.
There are no earth shattering surprises here, but there are some tense scenes of the rollercoaster rides and the climactic Jumper ride is appropriately exciting, although the book ends very quickly without any real rationalization behind the villain's motives.
A Quick and satisfying time waster.
 Overall, a good read- but flawed logic/characters/ending August 20, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Overall, Jumper was an interesting read- it was good...not great, but good. Some of the events in the book were a bit illogical and I didn't buy into a whole lot of it, and the ending was really bad- very anticlimactic. I couldn't really say much about why it was a bad ending, without possibly spoiling the book for others, but I can say that the ending was very odd- very short, and things really resolved way too fast to be believable.
Garvey, the roller coaster designer, was an intresting character, and he was easy to like- but, like a lot of other things in this book, he fell into a quick relationship with another character way too fast- the story read as tho it was normal, and they had been together for years, when in reality it was a couple of weeks, and you wouldn't have expected the relationship to start at all.
Interesting information on rollercoasters- even if the rollercoaster in the book was totally implausible, and there were some exciting moments when it came to the rollercoaster accidents.
In the end- it was entertaining, but a lot of the logic was severely flawed, and ultimately it was hard to believe much of the plot points- which hurt the book, but, like I said, it was still entertaining overall.
Jumper June 7, 2002
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Jumper is a book about an architech thats wants to make a new roller coaster. He finds out that there recently was a roller coaster crash in different places. At the end of each crah the person had left a note. He must find the mystery man before his idea comes to an end.
I'm really into architechure so i thought this was a good book. One of my favorite hobbies is roller coaster riding, and the book was about roller coasters so I knew i would like the book. This is a great brain buster book. It was a great mystery.
My favorite part of this book was when the Jumper first opened. The Jumper is a roller coaster that jumps over the other cart half way through the ride. I liked this part because of the way Richard Barth described the reaction of all the people. When you read this part it is like you are really riding the roller coaster with the people, it's really neat.
A roller coaster of a ride January 31, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I know that phrase is used over and over to describe things that are exciting, but it totally fits this book. There are many plot twists and surprises. The book is a very fast read (maybe that's because it's not as long as most novels). Even so, the characters are developed well. There aren't too many novels written about roller coasters or that take place in amusement parks, so I jump at the chance to read any that I find. There was a movie released in the mid-70's titled "Rollercoaster" starring George Segal, Richard Widmark, and a young Helen Hunt that has a plot similar to this book. Not entirely the same, but similar (a guy wants money and is destroying roller coasters at parks around the country.) If you've seen that movie, you would enjoy this book. I recommend them both!
 Jumper: A Novel, is a very fast paced and run read January 22, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Jumper: A Novel was a very entertaining read. Dr. Samuel Garvey, a roller coaster expert has been currently working on his newest invention: the Jumper. The Jumper is designed to, after partway throught the ride,jump the tracks over another car and reach the other side safely. While he works on this, roller coasters across the country start to mysteriously have accidents and deaths. After each incident the saboteur leaves a note. When Garvey is pinpointed as the cheif suspect things get a little more tricky for him and the jumper. I love roller coasters and this was a great one to read if you like them also. The book did not include a lot of "riding" a roller coaster but it was immensly entertaining.
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