temperance Brennan Hears The News On Her Car Radio. An Air Transsouth Flight Has Gone Down In The Mountains Of Western North Carolina, Taking With It Eighty-eight Passengers And Crew. As A Forensic Anthropologist And A Member Of The Regional Dmort Team, Tempe Rushes To The Scene To Assist In Body Recovery And Identification.

Tempe Has Seen Death Many Times, Working With The Medical Examiners In North Carolina And Montreal, But Never Has Tragedy Struck With Such Devastation. She Finds A Field Of Carnage: Torsos In Trees, Limbs Strewn Among Bursting Suitcases And Smoldering Debris. Many Of The Dead Are Members Of A University Soccer Team. Is Tempe's Daughter, Katy, Among Them?

Frantic With Worry, Tempe Joins Colleagues From The Fbi, The Ntsb, And Other Agencies To Search For Explanations. Was The Plane Brought Down By A Bomb, An Insurance Plot, A Political Assassination, Or Simple Mechanical Failure? And What About The Prisoner On The Plane Who Was Being Extradited To Canada? Did Someone Want Him Silenced Forever?

Even More Puzzling For Tempe Is A Disembodied Foot Found Near The Debris Field. Tempe's Microscopic Analysis Suggests It Could Not Have Belonged To Any Passenger. Whose Foot Is It, And Where Is The Rest Of The Body? And What About The Disturbing Evidence Tempe Discovers In The Soil Outside A Remote Mountain Enclave? What Secrets Lie Hidden There, And Why Are Certain People Eager To Stop Tempe's Investigation? Is She Learning Too Much? Coming Too Close?

With Help From Montreal Detective Andrew Ryan, Who Has His Own Sad Reason For Being At The Crash, And From A Very Special Dog Named Boyd, Tempe Calls Upon Deep Reserves Of Courage And Upon Her Forensic Skill To Uncover A Shocking, Multilayered Tale Of Deceit And Depravity.

Written With The Riveting Authenticity That Only World-class Forensic Anthropologist Kathy Reichs Can Provide, fatal Voyage Pairs Witty, Elegant Prose With Pulse-pounding Storytelling In A Tour De Force Worthy Of Crime Writing's New Superstar.

called In To Investigate A Horrific North Carolina Airplane Crash, Forensic Anthropologist Temperance Brennan (tempe To Her Friends) Finds That The Bodies Of The 88 Young People On Board Have Become Inexplicably Mixed Up With Evidence Of An Older Crime And Gets Fired. It Turns Out A Local Politician Has A Vested Interest To Protect. Although Tempe Deals With The Details Of Death Every Working Day, Neither She Nor Her Creator, Real-life Forensic Scientist And University Professor Kathy Reichs (deadly Decisions, Etc.) Ever Exploit Those Details For Morbidity Or Melodrama. That Restraint, Rendered Superbly By Understated Reader Borowitz And Combined With A Riveting Plot, Makes For A Terrific Audio Package Exciting And Intelligent Entertainment. Borowitz Is Perfectly Cast As The 50-ish Brennan: Wise, Self-deprecating And Funny. Simultaneous Release With Scribner Hardcover (forecasts, May 21). (july) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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