patricia Cornwell Fans, Get Ready! Dr. Kay Scarpetta Is Back With Another Heart-arresting Thriller Of Medical Mischief And Mayhem. When A Half-decomposed Body Is Discovered On A Cargo Ship Arriving From Belgium, And The Autopsy Uncovers Nothing, Kay Is Right Back In The Mix. Now She's Off To Europe, And Will Soon Be Faced With Her Most Career-threatening Not To Mention Life-threatening Case Yet.
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it's Like A Splash Of Cold Water On A Hot Day To Be Plunged, After The Irritating Third-person Satire Of Cornwell's Last Novel, Southern Cross (1998), Back Into The Bracing Narration Of Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta. As In The Nine Scarpettas Past (point Of Origin, Etc.), Here It's Not The Novel's Events, Startling As They Are, That Propel The Story So Much As The Deep-hearted Responses Of Kay, As Real A Hero As Any In Thriller Fiction, To The Evil--her Word--that Threatens. Evil Wears Several Faces Here, From Petty To Monstrous. Most Insidious Is The Office Sabotage--insubordination, Thefts, Fraudulent E-mails--that's Making The Grieving Kay Look As If She's Lost Her Grip Since Her Lover's Murder In Point Of Origin. More Destructive Are The Overt Attempts By Calculating Richmond, Va., Deputy Police Chief Diane Bray To Ruin Kay's Career As Well As That Of Kay's Old Friend, Capt. Pete Marino. Then There's The Wild Rage At Life That's Consuming Kay's Niece, A Dea Agent. Finally--the Plot Wire That Binds The Sometimes Scattered Plot--there Are The Mutilation Killings By The French Serial Killer Self-styled Loup-garou--werewolf. The Forensic Sequences Boom With Authority; The Brief Action Sequences Explode On The Page--in The Finale, Overbearingly So; The Interplay Between Kay And Marino Is Boisterous As Always, And There's An Atmospheric Sidetrip To Paris And An Affecting Romantic Misadventure For Lonely Kay. A Thunderhead Of Disquietude Hangs Over This Compulsively Readable Novel, Sometimes Loosing Storms Of Suspense; But To Cornwell's Considerable Credit, The Unease Arises Ultimately Not From The Steady Potential For Violence, But From A More Profound Horror: The Vulnerability Of A Good Woman Like Kay To A World Beset By The Corrupt, The Cruel, The Demonic. One Million First Printing; $750,000 Ad/promo; Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club And Mystery Guild Main Selections; Unabridged And Abridged Audio Versions; Foreign Rights Sold In Eight Countries. (july) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
Categories:
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Science Fiction
- Crime & Mystery
- Science Fiction
Publisher : Berkley
Author : Cornwell, Patricia
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2008-12-30
Number Of Pages : 544
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0425225453
ISBN-13 : 9780425225455
Item weight : 2.31 lb
Dimensions : 1.54 in x 4.21 in x 7.52 in
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