| Demolition Angel Contributor(s): Crais, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 034543448X ISBN-13: 9780345434487 Publisher: Ballantine Books OUR PRICE: $6.79 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: July 2001 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: "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 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001553384 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 4.21" W x 6.86" (0.43 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - West Coast - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Geographic Orientation - California - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA - Cultural Region - Southern California - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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 " |