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Blow Out (FBI Thriller, Bk 9)
Blow Out - FBI Thriller, Bk 9
Author: Catherine Coulter
PBS Market Price: $8.09 or $4.19+1 credit
ISBN-13: 9780515139259
ISBN-10: 0515139254
Publication Date: 2005
Pages: 368
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 494 ratings
Publisher: Jove
Book Type: Paperback
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MerryHearted avatar reviewed Blow Out (FBI Thriller, Bk 9) on + 35 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
Catherine Coulter's Savich & Sherlock series is one of my faves for action; there's always a side of romance and it's not as dark as some FBI-related series are.
WaterOtter avatar reviewed Blow Out (FBI Thriller, Bk 9) on + 17 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
LOVE Coulter's new style of writing. Her thrillers are great and such a switch from the romance.
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Helpful Score: 2
An FBI thriller with Sherlock and Savich! Hard to put down -- actually two stories in this one!! Suspenseful.....
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Helpful Score: 2
A quick read. Sherlock & Savich are great charactors.
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Helpful Score: 2
GOOD INTERESTING BOOK 2 MYSTERIES COMBINED IN ONE STORY
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Helpful Score: 2
Exciteing mystery with a touch of romance. Good read!
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Helpful Score: 2
All of catherine coulters books are good and this one too.

Enjoy+
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Helpful Score: 2
Another great Catherine Coulter great book...terrorism, or personal after a Supreme Court Judge is killed...A FBI thriller.
Smokey avatar reviewed Blow Out (FBI Thriller, Bk 9) on + 265 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
A little different from the previous Savich and Sherlock series that I have read, but a good read.
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Helpful Score: 1
This was my first Coulter thriller. Well done! Even though I've stepped into the middle of an ongoing series, I quickly felt up to speed with the characters.
txladyrah avatar reviewed Blow Out (FBI Thriller, Bk 9) on + 180 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
A good story...keeps the pace...a lot of action.
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Helpful Score: 1
With possible blackmail, intra-judiciary rivalries personal pecadilloes there is more than enough intrigue and also suspects in this book.
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Helpful Score: 1
good story -- will keep you guessing -- the Savich's continue to be an interesting team
urrican avatar reviewed Blow Out (FBI Thriller, Bk 9) on + 62 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
This was my first Catherine Coulter and I loved it! FBI Agents Savich and Sherlock investigate the death of a Supreme Court justice.
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Helpful Score: 1
Excellent, fast paced thriller with husband wife team FBI agents.
Very good read.
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Helpful Score: 1
Good read, had me guessing until the end.
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Helpful Score: 1
An interesting read; a typical "beach" book.
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Helpful Score: 1
Wow! What a read. Couldn't put it down! I want more Catherine Coulter!
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Helpful Score: 1
Another FBI thriller featuring agents Sherlock and Savich! They are investigating the murder of a Supreme Court Justice in Washington DC. As always it is an enjoyable and exciting read!
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Helpful Score: 1
This novel is a continuation of Coulters FBI thriller book. The couple Savich and Sherlock are on vacation that was cut short to investigate the murder of a federal court judge. Knowing Coulter you are going to have some paranormal elements also.
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Helpful Score: 1
If you like the series, you'll like this book..........as per usual, it's a good read.
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Helpful Score: 1
This an easy read if you are just looking to relax. The story line is believable and it keeps you guessing "who did it" until the very end. It was my first FBI mystery/thriller type book and a good one.
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Helpful Score: 1
Good book, but I found it a little lighter than I like.
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Helpful Score: 1
A weekend in the mountains are cut short for FBI agents Sherlock and Savich by the murder of a Supreme Court Justice in Washington.
trekie70 avatar reviewed Blow Out (FBI Thriller, Bk 9) on + 291 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
This was a very enjoyable book, although the title actually has little to do with the plot. The plot is interesting without becoming too complex. I managed to read this book in about 3 days.
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Helpful Score: 1
Always interesting - lots of action, a little romance, and this time a drop of the supernatural!
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Helpful Score: 1
This was the first Coulter book I've read, and I was intrigued by the husband-wife crimefighting team- it definitely adds a whole new layer of 'plot' to the story. This story starts off supernaturally, but that first storyline dies off for a while, so if you're not into ghost stories, it's still a good read!
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Helpful Score: 1
A beach book with really dumb plot contrivance. I'll gladly send it on to you.
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Helpful Score: 1
This book is a continuation of characters Sherlock and Savich. A Supreme court justice is murdered i Washington D.C and they are sent to investigate the murder for the FBI. Within 24 hours there is another murder with the same mo.
This book is up to the standards of all Catherine Coulter books.
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Helpful Score: 1
This is a great story about a murder of a Supreme Court Justice and the murders that follow. Keeps you in suspence the whole time trying to figure out who has the motive and if its personal! Another Sherlock and Savich mystery which is always great to read!!! Really enjoyed it from beginning to end and couldn't wait to find out who the killer was... great surprise ending.
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Helpful Score: 1
Easy story line. Quick read.
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Synopsis
Brutal murders shake up Washington's judicial elite in Catherine Coulter's ninth FBI thriller. The quiet weekend in a forest cabin that married FBI agents Savich and Sherlock have planned for themselves and their young son is interrupted when a frantic, nearly incoherent woman fleeing an unseen killer approaches Savich's stopped car. Then the couple is called back to Washington to solve the killing of a Supreme Court Justice, strangled the night before the opening of a high-profile death-penalty case, as well as the subsequent deaths of two of the Justice's clerks.
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Helpful Score: 1
This was a good book, I like the main characters a lot.
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Helpful Score: 1
Sherlock and Savich have to cut short their vacation to solve the murder of a Supreme Court Justice.
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Another good Sherlock and Savich book.
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Coulter at her best!!
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Excellent reading!
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Savich and Serlock investigate the murder of the supreme court judge. Ben Raven is out to protect the judges stepdaughter who is a reporter out to find the truth
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FBI agents Savich and Sherlock return for another thriller involving an unsolved 30-year old case and a current murder of a Supreme Court justice.
dastephan6 avatar reviewed Blow Out (FBI Thriller, Bk 9) on + 132 more book reviews
i wasn't too thrilled by this book. to me, it was slow-paced and had too much talking. the ending was VERY predictible.
lindaboynton avatar reviewed Blow Out (FBI Thriller, Bk 9) on + 15 more book reviews
I love reading her series of books featuring Sherlock and Dillon. You can't tell how the book is going to end and who the guilty party is until the very end of the book. She keeps you guessing and turning the pages.
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Fast moving with surprising twists and turns...will keep you glued to your seat!
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Not as fast as her other books until about half way thru but ended up being as good!
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A thriller that keeps you reading until the end!
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another great one
whitegardenia avatar reviewed Blow Out (FBI Thriller, Bk 9) on + 39 more book reviews
I can't put these books down. This was a dup. Won't let go of all the rest. It's great to read in sequence, but I started down the line first. didn't know. It didn't matter. All are great!
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I liked this one very much, It was a little different from most of the other FBI Thrillers.
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Savich allows Callie Markham, an investigative reporter for the Washington Post, to partner woth local Metro Police liaison Ben Raven since she's got the inside track- she's the stepdaughter of the murdered Justice.
Cycle304 avatar reviewed Blow Out (FBI Thriller, Bk 9) on + 135 more book reviews
Very good book from an author that is fairly new to me - really like the FBI series.
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LARGE PRINT EDITION. A long weekend in the Poconos is cut short when Sherlock and Savich are helicoptered back to Washington to lead the investigation into the brutal murder of a Supreme Court Justice...
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One of Coulter's fast-paced thrillers that you can't put down! This is one of the better in the FBI series.
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Couldn't put it down.
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Another excellent thriller with Savich and Sherlock!
dterlec avatar reviewed Blow Out (FBI Thriller, Bk 9) on + 238 more book reviews
Another great Savich & Sherlock book. Terrific series of books.
buzzby avatar reviewed Blow Out (FBI Thriller, Bk 9) on + 6062 more book reviews
Another investigative-reporter-riding-along-with-the-police-to-solve-the-murder-of-a-relative-who-happens-to-be-a-supreme-court-justice mystery.
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A PAGE TURNER IN HER FBI SERIES
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Another great Savich/Sherlock book
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Excellent - 5 stars
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Excellent!
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All the books in the FBI series are very interesting. Can't wait to get to the end of each.
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I really didn't like her writing style, or the story line.
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great seies
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A long weekend in the Poconos is cut short when FBI agents Sherlock and Savich are helicoptered back to Washington, D.C. to lead the investigation into the brutal murder of a Supreme Court Justice. Savich allows Callie Markham, an investigative reporter for THE WASHINGTON POST, to partner with local Metro Police liaison Ben Raven since she's got the inside track--she's the stepdaughter of the murdered Justice. Is the murder a terrorist act? Or is it something more personal? Within twenty-four hours, there's another murder with the same M.O. Savich and Sherlock are up against it this time, following leads that seem impossible to connect to the madness. But are they?
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another great Coulter novel
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A nice Fbi THriller...
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very good
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Good read.!!!
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great read
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From the back:
A long weekend in the Poconos in cut short when FBI agents Sherlock and Savich are helicoptered back to D.C. to lead the investigation in to the brutal murder of a Supreme Court Justice.
Savich allows Callie Markham, an investigative reporter for the Washington Post, to partner with local metro police liaison Ben Raven since she's got the inside track-she's the stepdaughter of the murdered Justice.
Is the murder a terrorist act? Or is it something more personal? Within twenty four hours there's another murder with the same M.O.
Maya33 avatar reviewed Blow Out (FBI Thriller, Bk 9) on + 225 more book reviews
A Savich and Sherlock mystery thriller.
4Hmomnm avatar reviewed Blow Out (FBI Thriller, Bk 9) on + 79 more book reviews
Loved this series!!
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An exciting FBI thriller.
cay avatar reviewed Blow Out (FBI Thriller, Bk 9) on + 63 more book reviews
Exciting romantic thriller.
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It was decent book.
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A long weekend in the Poconos is cut short when FBI agents Sherlock and Savich are helicoptered back to Washington, D.C. to lead the investigation into the brutal murder of a Supreme Court Justice.

Savich allows Callie Markham, an investigative reporter for the Washington Post, to partner with local Metro Police liaison Ben Raven since she's got the inside track--she's the stepdaughter of the murdered Justice.

Is the murder a terrorist act? Or is it something more personal? Within twenty-four hours there's another murder with the same M.O.

Savich and Sherlock are up against it this time, following leads that seem impossible to connect to the madness. But are they?

Let me know how many times you check your heart monitor.
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The latest in prolific novelist Coulter's series of FBI thrillers once again features high-powered husband and wife team Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock. In the middle of a long-awaited vacation with their young son, the two are called to investigate the heinous midnight murder of a Supreme Court Justice, committed in the Court's library despite tight, round-the-clock security. Known as a moderate, Justice Stewart Califano was undoubtedly contemplating an upcoming case involving the death penalty for psychopathic juveniles when he was brutally garroted, his fingers sliced off as he struggled to escape. The FBI is aided in the case by the CIA, Secret Service and metropolitan police as well as by the judge's stepdaughter, an investigative reporter for the Washington Post. Yet within 48 hours, two of the Justice's young law clerks are murdered in the same grisly fashionthe lovable Daniel strangled with his own St. Christopher medal chain, and the formidable Eliza killed while she's on the phone with Savich. An unrelated supernatural side plot is distracting, and the case's solution comes from out of left field, but fans of the author's fictional duo will get their fixthe climactic face-off takes place in Savich and Sherlock's own living room.
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A real Thriller!
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Part of her FBI series - a great series!
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This is the 9th book in Coulter's FBI thriller series, and could be her best!
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Good story
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From Publishers Weekly
The latest in prolific novelist Coulter's series of FBI thrillers once again features high-powered husband and wife team Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock. In the middle of a long-awaited vacation with their young son, the two are called to investigate the heinous midnight murder of a Supreme Court Justice, committed in the Court's library despite tight, round-the-clock security. Known as a moderate, Justice Stewart Califano was undoubtedly contemplating an upcoming case involving the death penalty for psychopathic juveniles when he was brutally garroted, his fingers sliced off as he struggled to escape. The FBI is aided in the case by the CIA, Secret Service and metropolitan police as well as by the judge's stepdaughter, an investigative reporter for the Washington Post. Yet within 48 hours, two of the Justice's young law clerks are murdered in the same grisly fashionthe lovable Daniel strangled with his own St. Christopher medal chain, and the formidable Eliza killed while she's on the phone with Savich. An unrelated supernatural side plot is distracting, and the case's solution comes from out of left field, but fans of the author's fictional duo will get their fixthe climactic face-off takes place in Savich and Sherlock's own living room.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Janine avatar reviewed Blow Out (FBI Thriller, Bk 9) on + 252 more book reviews
Great book one of a series
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Absolutely WOW
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very good!
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Another Savich-Sherlock thriller....
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Very good!!
Calliope13 avatar reviewed Blow Out (FBI Thriller, Bk 9) on + 98 more book reviews
A long weekend in the Poconos is cut short when FBI agents Sherlock and Savich are helicoptered back to Washington, D.C. to lead the investigation into the brutal murder of a Supreme Court Justice...
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The latest in prolific novelist Coulter's series of FBI thrillers once again features high-powered husband and wife team Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock. In the middle of a long-awaited vacation with their young son, the two are called to investigate the heinous midnight murder of a Supreme Court Justice, committed in the Court's library despite tight, round-the-clock security. Known as a moderate, Justice Stewart Califano was undoubtedly contemplating an upcoming case involving the death penalty for psychopathic juveniles when he was brutally garroted, his fingers sliced off as he struggled to escape. The FBI is aided in the case by the CIA, Secret Service and metropolitan police as well as by the judge's stepdaughter, an investigative reporter for the Washington Post. Yet within 48 hours, two of the Justice's young law clerks are murdered in the same grisly fashionthe lovable Daniel strangled with his own St. Christopher medal chain, and the formidable Eliza killed while she's on the phone with Savich. An unrelated supernatural side plot is distracting, and the case's solution comes from out of left field, but fans of the author's fictional duo will get their fixthe climactic face-off takes place in Savich and Sherlock's own living room.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY REVIEW
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FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock return in a dazzling new thriller. Blowout takes excitement to an all-time high level.
Married FBI agents Savich and Sherlock work and play hard: devoted to their jobs, their son, and each other, they approach each new case with gusto, and appreciate every moment of downtime they can grab. But a long weekend getaway at a secluded cabin in the Pennsylvania woods is cut short when the agents are summoned back to Washington, where a nightmare awaits them: The night before the Supreme Court is to hear opening arguments in a highly controversial death-penalty case, a prominent judge is murdered in the court's third-floor library. Savich and Sherlock are charged with heading the investigation but when the killings continue, each targeting another brilliant, successful Washington power broker, the agents are faced with their most baffling and shocking case of their lives.
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New York Times bestseller.
A Supreme Court Justice is brutally murded and FBI agents Sherlock and Savich are heading the investigation. Is the murder a terrorist act? Or is it something more personal? Within twenty-four hours there's another murder with the same M.O. It's a race against time, following leads that seem impossible to connect.
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"Leave it to Michael Connely to reinvent the police procedural...He artfully reclaims the genre." New York Times Book Review
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NY Times Bestseller
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NY Times Bestseller