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Author: Douglas Preston
ISBN : B00BEK6Z7M
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WHITE FIRE
Special Agent Pendergast arrives at an exclusive Colorado ski resort to rescue his protégée, Corrie Swanson, from serious trouble with the law. His sudden appearance coincides with the first attack of a murderous arsonist who--with brutal precision--begins burning down multimillion-dollar mansions with the families locked inside. After springing Corrie from jail, Pendergast learns she made a discovery while examining the bones of several miners who were killed 150 years earlier by a rogue grizzly bear. Her finding is so astonishing that it, even more than the arsonist, threatens the resort's very existence.
Drawn deeper into the investigation, Pendergast uncovers a mysterious connection between the dead miners and a fabled, long-lost Sherlock Holmes story--one that might just offer the key to the modern day killings as well.
Now, with the ski resort snowed in and under savage attack--and Corrie's life suddenly in grave danger--Pendergast must solve the enigma of the past before the town of the present goes up in flames.
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- File Size: 1219 KB
- Print Length: 384 pages
- Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (November 12, 2013)
- Sold by: Hachette Book Group
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00BEK6Z7M
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Epub White Fire
I must admit that I don't usually stray too far away from my usual genre of science fiction, but on occasion I will be tempted to find a book that can break up the monotony. Typically I stray to books like Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt adventures, but I will also see what the combo of Preston and Child have come up with in their ongoing Pendergast series. When offered the chance to once again visit that realm, I jumped at it and quickly found that the story they have written in White Fire is one of the best Pendergast novels to date.
Without spoiling the book, a habit I take seriously in my reviews, I will try to give a generalized summary of what the potential reader will find within. The book follows the budding career of a young student bent on proving herself in not only the eyes of her peers, but in the eyes of her mentor as well - Pendergast. After hearing of a remarkable mystery surrounding the recently exhumed remains of mine workers, she sets out to solve a centuries old mystery that points to a horrendous animal with the taste for human flesh. As her quest for answers progresses, she finds that the town she is working in presents its own dangers, and the towns people are not to kind to her investigation.
Consumed by her work she takes incredible risks, risks that come back to haunt her later. But when all seems lost a mysterious FBI agent comes to the rescue and helps to push her investigation on. Meanwhile in the town, acts of savage murder send shock waves through affluent residents, and an overwhelmed sheriff calls on the help of our trusted law enforcement officer. As the investigations near their end, the dominoes set up by Preston and Child begin to fall and all is revealed in stunning ways.
Seeing Douglas Preston in person (twice) and Lincoln Child via Skype (once), I can’t help but be enthralled by the eccentricities of these two individuals, and the odd dynamic that must ensue from this powerful writing duo. So it’s hard not to see how Aloysius Pendergast might have developed from these two brilliant minds fully formed and ready for action. He’s odd and eccentric and intriguing and his dark suits never manage to get wrinkle, even when he’s bounding through snow drifts up to his chin or playing Russian roulette with a loaded revolver.
More than just Pendergast, though, WHITE FIRE filled its pages with entertaining characters and a few individuals from the days of yore. With Corrie Swanson leading the charge and immersing herself in skeletal remains and mining caves and mountain passes, this novel piles on roadblocks and adventures in equal measure, and then douses the remains in cans of kerosene. With stoic individuals stepping to the forefront and the interweaving of a story within a story, this novel moves forward as much as it lingers in antiquity. Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde and Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson weave through the pages, leaving footprints in white blankets and half-eaten meals behind.
The rush of adrenaline helped me maneuver from the first page to the last, the throttle easing just enough to keep me from overexertion, the pages pounding with the precision of a jackhammer. The vibrations echoed through my hands and all the way up my forearms, as I drove my snowmobile through the ensuing avalanche. The tight plot fit about as well as a snug pair of gloves, and I leaned my back from the resultant wind current, my teeth chattering and my feet stamping in protest.