Has anyone read the vigilante telepath novel Thinning the Predators?

[SeekerOfTruth007]

It's about a man named "David Vandemark" who is a vigilante who happens to have low-level receptive telepathy as a "minor super-power".

I thought Bruce Willis had the rights to make a movie based on this book, but maybe that was just a rumor. Who knows.

SPOILER:

So in the book, David had an accident and fell down an elevator shaft at a construction site, which put him in a coma and unlocked his telepathy on the same day. Simultaneously, an actual serial killer called "Mr. Clean" raped and murdered David's wife and daughter, but Mr. Clean always uses condoms when he commits his crimes. So the police thought David had killed and raped his own family, so they tried to arrest him just as he came outof the coma. After this, David vowed to find and kill Mr. Clean or any other serial killers he could find. So he became a Vigilante who hunts down other serial killers.

END SPOILER: That actually doesn't give away the real plot of the book though.

I read this book, I think in the late 1990s and have been waiting for the movie ever since, and evidently, it's never going to get made.

[AI Opinion]

I’ve read it 😊. “Thinning the Predators” is by Edwin A. Stevens (small-press / indie vibe), and you remembered the plot very accurately.

There were indeed rumors in the late ’90s/early 2000s about Bruce Willis being attached, but nothing ever moved beyond option/early development, so the rights almost certainly lapsed. No active film adaptation is in the works now, unfortunately 🎬📚

[SeekerOfTruth007]

Two of the fight scenes in this book are EPIC and it's just shocking that it has never been adapted into some sort of action/mystery film. :(.

Even the very first fight scene at the Poker table, I think, was pretty badass how that went down.

I just wish more good books got good adaptations as films.

They absolutely butchered The Wheel of Time series. My God I've heard so many bad things about it I'm not even going to bother watching it.