When a high priced fashion model with a tortured past chooses to move into a too good to be true New York City brownstone apartment building, rather than her shady lawyer boyfriend's, she uncovers a haunting, a conspiracy, and a soul numbing terror. Part of the innumerable flood of demonic thrillers churned up in the wake of the success of The Exorcist, Jeffrey Konvitz's The Sentinel, despite being saddled with a less than effective film adaptation, remains one of the very best of the genre and is worth seeking out.

New York City, 1974: Allison Parker has had a difficult life, but things are really looking up for her. After presiding over her father's funeral, she returns to her life in the big apple to start anew. She has a handsome boyfriend who is a succesful lawyer, a growing career as a model, and she has just moved in to the perfect apartment in an old brownstone. But Allison soon finds that her life is being controlled by unseen forces. The brownstone seems to reside between two worlds; one of light and one of darkness. And an old blind priest who lives in the apartment above her holds a secret that will shatter her world and could unleash the forces of hell on to all of humanity... This is a classic horror novel. It was made into an exceptional movie years ago and it's been on my reading list for ages. I wasn't sure if it would stand the test of time, but I was pleasantly surprised. It is genuinely creepy and has real fear in it. Highly recommended for horror fans.

I first read this book when I was a teenager, and now years later, I still find myself haunted by it. It sucks you in, and the end, is just wonderful...a very fitting ending to such a creepy book. I will never forget this book as long as I live.

I bought this book at a used bookstore, indulging my penchant for bad sea monsters stories. Expecting a bad but mindlessly entertaining read, I was quite pleasantly surprised to find it a well-crafted, intense thriller. The story, about an oil company seeking to exploit a new oil find under Loch Ness only to be stymied by the Loch's famous inhabitant, is well written and thoughorly detailed. The characters were well developed and interesting...you actually end up despising the bad guys, and rooting for the good guys. If I were the publisher, I'd re-release this book in a minute. If you like such thriller giants as Steven King and Dean Koontz, by all means, try this book. It's well worth the read, and a real gem.

It's been quite a while since I read this book, but from what I can remember, it's about how a bunch of guys searching for the Loch Ness Monster accidentally discover that there is oil under Loch Ness. A millionaire wants to drain the Loch so as to get to the oil easier, but a certain inhabitant doesn't want that to happen...

It was a good book; great characters, super suspense, and yes, very scary. I highly recommend it; too bad it isn't in print anymore. If I were a publisher, I'd re-issue it. Read it and you'll agree.

More or less picking up where The Sentinel ended, The Guardian: Sentinel 2 has a married couple move into the still haunted apartment complex built upon the rubble of the demolished brownstone from the previous story. While knowing who the sentinel is and what she is there for robs the story of the first's rich vein of suspense and mood, author Jeffrey Konvitz compensates by throwing some stunning curve balls in the story's latter half. While nowhere near as compelling, not to mention frightening and seemingly confusing, as the first novel was, The Guardian nonetheless offers an entertaingly twisted story that almost satisfies. Almost because the book reads like the middle part of a trilogy that never materialized, oh well it's still worth hunting down.