Demolition Angel
by:
Robert Crais (author)
“TERRIFIC . . . EXPLOSIVE . . . [A] HIGH POWERED THRILL RIDE.”–The Wall Street Journal “CRAIS IS AT THE TOP OF HIS GAME, and Demolition Angel delivers the goods. With a bang. . . . It’s Silence of the Lambs meets Speed as down-on-her-luck former bomb-squad ace Carol Starkey plays cat-and-mouse...
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“TERRIFIC . . . EXPLOSIVE . . . [A] HIGH POWERED THRILL RIDE.”–The Wall Street Journal “CRAIS IS AT THE TOP OF HIS GAME, and Demolition Angel delivers the goods. With a bang. . . . It’s Silence of the Lambs meets Speed as down-on-her-luck former bomb-squad ace Carol Starkey plays cat-and-mouse with a serial bomber. . . . Crais knows how to press all the right buttons in keeping the story line taut and the action, well, explosive.”–San Francisco Chronicle“GRIPPING . . . CRAIS PILES ON PLOT TWISTS . . . gathering the separate threads at the end and igniting them like a string of fireworks.”–People“A POWERFUL, SELF-CONTAINED NOVEL OF SUSPENSE that has the compactness, velocity, and effectiveness of a well-aimed bullet . . . This is a thriller that works on every level, a pivotal work from a crime novelist operating at the top of his game.”–Los Angeles Times“FASCINATING AND FRIGHTENINGLY BELIEVABLE . . . Starkey is one of the toughest characters to grace the crowded field of thriller books in a long time.”–USA Today
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780345434487 (034543448X)
ASIN: 034543448X
Publish date: 2001
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 395
Edition language: English
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An LAPD bomb squad technician is blown up on the job and Detective Carol Starkey, former bomb squad tech, is on the case. Can Starkey overcome her past and bring the bomber to justice?I first heard of Demoliton Angel last year at Bouchercon when Robert Crais mentioned working on it in secret after ...
A THIRD-TIME re-read, and still top of my list. Carol Starkey is damaged, beautiful, headstrong, and a very likable character (to the reader). Her kick-ass assault on the senses while still being soft is what pulls you in, and the puzzle of bombs is what will keep you in its blaze. Crais does a fant...
Been reading Crais in order and just love Elvis Cole and Joe Pike so I wasn't anxious to read a stand alone. Didn't think it would live up to my expections. Boy was I wrong.The last hundred pages or so, there were so many surprises for me...all unexpected, all supported by previous events. No loo...
Carol Starkey died in the bomb explosion, but she was resuscitated. A bomb technician for the LAPD she has been asked to head a team searching for Mr. Red, a very sophisticated and clever bomb maker who targets specific bomb experts hoping to one day make the FBI’s top Ten Most Wanted List. She’s ...