Demolition angel / Robert Crais.
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TextPublication details: London : Orion, 2000Description: 386 p. ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 075283794X (pbk)Subject(s): Police -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction | Bombings | Police | Policewomen | Policewomen -- Fiction | Bombings -- Fiction | California -- Los Angeles | Los Angeles (Calif.) -- FictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery stories. | Suspense fiction. | Fiction. | Mystery fiction. | Thrillers (Fiction). | Thrillers (Fiction). DDC classification: 813/.54 LOC classification: PS3553.R264 | D46 2000Summary: Robert Crais' massive new thriller takes a break from Elvis Cole and introduces a new heroine; bomb victim and tenacious detective Carol Starkey. It is a novel of personal obsession, rivalry, corruption and breath-taking violence. John Michael Fowles has a natural talent: he understands explosives. He has a feel for them. It is a talent which he fully expects will take him onto the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. Along the way he will match himself against the best - the FBI's elite team of bomb technicians and one person in particular - Carol Starkey, Detective in the LAPD Criminal Conspiracy Section. She is a woman who died for two minutes and forty seconds after being blown up by one of his bombs, and Fowles dearly wants her dead again. As the FBI attempt to find the link behind a series of bomb explosions that have been designed to kill their technicians, Special Agent Ben Williams stumbles on the bomber's secret: his desire to kill Starkey. If Williams can keep this from S tarkey he can set a trap and catch the bomber. A trap that uses Carol Starkey as bait.
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Robert Crais' massive new thriller takes a break from Elvis Cole and introduces a new heroine; bomb victim and tenacious detective Carol Starkey. It is a novel of personal obsession, rivalry, corruption and breath-taking violence. John Michael Fowles has a natural talent: he understands explosives. He has a feel for them. It is a talent which he fully expects will take him onto the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. Along the way he will match himself against the best - the FBI's elite team of bomb technicians and one person in particular - Carol Starkey, Detective in the LAPD Criminal Conspiracy Section. She is a woman who died for two minutes and forty seconds after being blown up by one of his bombs, and Fowles dearly wants her dead again. As the FBI attempt to find the link behind a series of bomb explosions that have been designed to kill their technicians, Special Agent Ben Williams stumbles on the bomber's secret: his desire to kill Starkey. If Williams can keep this from S tarkey he can set a trap and catch the bomber. A trap that uses Carol Starkey as bait.
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