Helpful Score: 2
A page turner - great characters
Helpful Score: 1
Stars Carol Starkey for a chance--terrific!
Helpful Score: 1
Story of a female bomb squad member. I loved this book.
Crais' usual great characterization.
Crais' usual great characterization.
This is a page turner with "good lines". As a reader I'm sure you know what I mean. Go ahead;get the book. You'll like it!
Carol Starkey bomb squad technician alcoholic with LAPD
great action book, a real page turner it should be made into a movie
There is a mad bomber out there who is targeting bomb technicians. Carol Starkey, an ex bomb technician and now a detective is assigned to bring him down. The question is though, who brings who down first ! ?
GREAT READ !
GREAT READ !
This was a good stand alone by robert crais.
Robert Crais is a great mystery writer, and I love Elvis Cole and Pike!
A good read that will keep you turning the pages.
Speed meets Silence of the Lambs
Great detective story that kept me riveted until the very last pages. Satisfying ending, credible characters and fast-paced.
From the cover: Carol Starkey is struggling to pick up the pieces of her former life as L.A.'s finest bomb squad t4echnician. Fueled with liberal doses of alcohol and Tagamet, she's doing time as a Detective-2 with LAPD's Criminal Conspiracy Section. Three years have passed since the event that still haunts her: a detonation that killed her partner and lover, scarred her body and soul, and ended her career as a bomb tech. When a seemingly innocuous bomb call explodes into a charred murder scene, Carol catches the case and embarks on an investigation of a series of explosions that reveal chilling intentions. The bombs are designed expressly to kill bomb technicians. Now, as the one tech who survived the deadliest of blasts, Carol is in for the most perilous fight of her life...
Super book - one of his best !
Mentally and physically scarred Carol Starkey is a bomb squad veteran now doing time as a Detective with LAPD's Criminal Conspiracy Section. Carol begins to investigate a series of explosions that seem to be designed to exterminate bomb technicians. She soon realizes that she's "the one that got away." With the help of an FBI agent whom she loathes professionally for interfering with her job but finds attractive anyway, Carol must track down one of the most frighteningly brilliant killers of the modern age. Great suspense in this one!
I enjoyed this book main character is a smoking drinking woman who really stands her ground.A real good ending twist and turns through out book
Good read. Entertaining and suspenseful.
"Crais piles on plot twists, gathering the separate threads at the end and igniting them like a string of fireworks." -- People
A suspensful story
Good detective mystery dealing with a female protagonist who is a LAPD detective.
Robert Crais, known for his Elvis Cole novels, has taken a break from his famous Private Eye! I never did get "into" the Cole Series, but I really liked Crais' writing style, so I decided to give this one a shot. This time Crais has created Carol Starkey, a female bomb-squad vet doing time as a Detective 2 with LAPD's Criminal Conspiracy Section. After suffering a catastrophic explosion 3 years earlier that left her literally in pieces, both physically and emotionally, she is placed on a case that dredges up old feelings, unleashing her inner demons all over again! Her main nemesis is "Mr. Red", who's main desire is to become the most feared man in the world! (what do you want to be when you grow up!) Crais manages to depict him in such a way that you almost want to root for him. It's this ability, coupled with Starky's character that makes this book a very entertaining listen. The solid supporting characters, and Crais' well-written knowledge of bombs and bomb-making will maintain your interest throughout. Personally, I found this heroine to be on the level of a Clarice Starling! - you remember her - right? Remember Jodie Foster with Hannibal Lecter!!! I know ladies don't normally gravitate to Mystery/Thrillers (my entire bookshelf), but mayber this book will get some of them to come over to my side! C'mon ladies, reach into the unknown - you may find that you like it after all!
I really like this author and enjoyed this story about the former bomb squad member - turned detective. A good page-turner.
With the most unforgettable female lead character since Clarice Starling, "Demolition Angel" is a blistering stand-alone thriller from the freshest bestselling voice in crime fiction.
Carol Starkey is struggling to pick up the pieces of her former life as L.A.'s finest bomb squad technician. Fueled with liberal doses of alcohol and Tagamet, she's doing time as a Detective-2 with LAPD's Criminal Conspiracy Section. Three years have passed since the event that haunts her--a detonation that killed her partner and lover, David "Sugar" Boudreaux. Fragments from the same explosion sliced through Starkey's protective Kevlar, scarring her beyond repair, and left her outside looking in at the life she left behind. Now she can't bear her reflection in the mirror, and hasn't been with another man since Sugar left her bed the morning they rolled out to the bomb site.
When a seemingly innocuous bomb call turns into a devastating murder scene, Carol catches the case and embarks on an investigation of a series of explosions that reveal intentions far more disturbing than one-shot acts of anarchy. The bombs are designed expressly to kill bomb technicians, and as the one tech who survived the deadliest of blasts, Carol is in for the most intense fight of her life.
Carol Starkey is struggling to pick up the pieces of her former life as L.A.'s finest bomb squad technician. Fueled with liberal doses of alcohol and Tagamet, she's doing time as a Detective-2 with LAPD's Criminal Conspiracy Section. Three years have passed since the event that haunts her--a detonation that killed her partner and lover, David "Sugar" Boudreaux. Fragments from the same explosion sliced through Starkey's protective Kevlar, scarring her beyond repair, and left her outside looking in at the life she left behind. Now she can't bear her reflection in the mirror, and hasn't been with another man since Sugar left her bed the morning they rolled out to the bomb site.
When a seemingly innocuous bomb call turns into a devastating murder scene, Carol catches the case and embarks on an investigation of a series of explosions that reveal intentions far more disturbing than one-shot acts of anarchy. The bombs are designed expressly to kill bomb technicians, and as the one tech who survived the deadliest of blasts, Carol is in for the most intense fight of her life.
