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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780345434487
ISBN number: 034543448X
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 395
Printing Date: July 03, 2001
Publishing house: Ballantine Books
Release Date: July 03, 2001
Sale Popularity Level: 42266
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“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
Amazon.com Review:
Penzler Pick, May 2000: Like many authors with ongoing characters, Robert Crais has taken a break from his famous private eye. After eight novels featuring Elvis Cole and his loyal sidekick Joe Pike, Crais has created Carol Starkey, a bomb squad veteran now doing time as a Detective-2 with LAPD's Criminal Conspiracy Section. Three years have passed since the detonation that killed Carol's partner and lover, but she is still severely scarred both mentally and physically. She can't bear to look in the mirror, and she hasn't been with another man since David Boudreaux left her bed that last morning he went to work. She gets through the day with the help of Tagamet and alcohol.
When a bomb call takes the life of another colleague, 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.
This edgy thriller's protagonist is one that the reader at very first may have difficulty liking, but she's got a background and history that make her truly three-dimensional. One hopes that Crais, one of the handful of young crime writers capable of writing consistently luminous prose, will continue to give us characters like Carol Starkey to star in his always powerful portraits of modern-day Los Angeles. --Otto Penzler
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A substantial mystery thriller, however with not too much character substance other than the famed Mr. red. He is Obviously the best character in the book. starkey is great but, she is an extreme bore. Mr. red, although not much of an explored character has the most intriguing personality with a strong mentality for destruction. It is apparent that this book is nothing without a great anagonist like him.
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I listen to these Robert Crais books as audible books and they are great that way. Strongly recommend.
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Sometimes authors make changes because they are tired of writing the same stuff with the same patterns and the same characters. Crais decided to change it up a bit by using a female detective from the bomb squad that has quite the unusual persona. I don't blame Crais for this change, and don't feel that this story was a bad one; it just wasn't a good one. It was just another thriller like many others.
I liked the new Carol Starkey character and the newly introduced surrounding group (Chen being the same CSI as in the Elvis Cole stories) has some potential. Many of the critics of this book said that Carol was one dimensional, but I disagree. They are comparing her (one book) with Elvis (several books). We know much more about Elvis and we love that character. Comparing them is not possible at this stage. I like the Elvis Cole/Joe Pike duo, but I've known them for years and through many escapades. And yes, I like them better then the Starkey character at this point. But that wasn't what I thought was average in this book. I didn't like her relationship with the one dimensional character of Jack Pell. It fell flat for me. The build up of the surrounding group was not enough either. Even Mr. Red was very boring as a bad guy. So I'm not blaming the Carol Starkey character, but instead I'm blaming the non development of the rest of the cast.
Additionally, the story was sort of formulaic. While I can laugh at Cole/Pike in an average story, these characters do not pick up that slack.
It's a good quick read for a beach chair or a lazy fall evening, but it's nothing that I'm going to remember past the subsequent book.
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The story centres around Carol Starkey a bomb squad detective who is still pulling herself and her life back together after surviving a bomb grey three years earlier.
Starkey and colleagues from the Criminal Conspiracy Section and her old team at the bomb squad are in a race against time to find the identity and whereabouts of a mysterious serial bomber known only as 'Mr Red'.
It's a good plot and great mystery, but Carol Starkey's character is a little too one dimensional to really work. She and the other characters are interesting, but this isn't as good at Crais's other work. That said, the pace of the book is fast enough to get past any limitations in the characterisation.
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First - usually I hate abridged works because they are TOO abridged. This one was not, to its credit.
Demolition Angel is a first-rate thriller and a pleasure to listen to - it really perked up my morning drive for about a week. If you are a fan of the Elvis Cole novels this one is a must-read so that you can get the backstory on Detective Carol Starkey.
Veteran actress Patricia Kalember does a wonderful job reading the book.
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