Demolition Angel

Carol Starkey is struggling to pick up the pieces of her former life as LA's finest bomb squad technician. Three years have passed since the explosion that shattered her life and now, fuelled by alcohol and prescription drugs, she's doing time as a detective with LAPD's Criminal Conspiracy Section.

Then a seemingly innocuous bomb call turns into a charred murder scene. Carol is put on the case - and quickly discovers an intent behind a series of explosions that is far more disturbing than it first appeared. Each attack is designed specifically to kill bomb technicians and now Carol faces the most intense and personal fight of her life; a fight that reaches back three years into her past...

“Acclaimed for his Elvis Cole mystery series, Robert Crais deserves further garlands for this stand-alone crime novel. The book features one of the most complex heroines to grace a thriller since Clarice Starling locked eyes with Hannibal Lecter, a deliciously spooky villain in the person of a mad bomber known as Mr. Red, and an aggressively involving plot! ...this novel gets high marks for originality, and even higher ones for suspense and, above all, for multidimensional, wounded characters who give all the excitement a rare depth”

Crais breaks new ground with a nervy, absorbing thriller . . . Intricate, hair-trigger plot involving bomber's vanity and copycat killer but, in the first place, succeeding brilliantly as a blow-by-blow account of the duel between two single-minded protagonists who belong to opposing sides of the same elite . . . A police procedural which fiercely takes off in ways you don't expect. Harsh, gruelling and utterly compelling. As good as they come LITERARY REVIEW
Gritty, graphic and gripping, this is a terrific addition to the genre IRISH INDEPENDENT
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Vivid characterisation and edgy storytelling blaze with energy and style, pushing the boundaries of contemporary LA noir to new heights. Demolition Angel is a cracker SUNDAY TRIBUNE
One of Crais's skills is to draw us inside the minds - minds as complex and delicate as detonating devices - of these two driven, obsessive individuals . . . it is vigorous, hard LA but with tremendous range . . . The taut terror of the ending is pure audio-cinema. Don't miss it OBSERVER
Crais is one of the new crime writers, along with Robert Ferrigno and Michael Connelly, whose vivid characterisation and edgy storytelling blaze with energy and style, pushing the boundaries of contemporary LA noir to new heights. DEMOLITION ANGEL is a cracker SUNDAY TRIBUNE
In Starkey, Crais has created a larger than life character with whom the reader can easily empathise and follow through thick and thin. A big, ambitious book this, and one that is eminently satisfying IRISH TIMES
With DEMOLITION ANGEL Robert Crais is shooting for the big time with all guns blazing GUARDIAN
A cracker . . . The action is pushed forward from one well-realised scene to the next, and he keeps the dialogue snappy SPECTATOR

Robert Crais is the author of numerous bestselling Cole and Pike novels. He has also written several stand-alone thrillers, including HOSTAGE, which was made into a major film starring Bruce Willis. Crais has won many awards and lives in L.A.

Carol Starkey is struggling to pick up the pieces of her former life as LA's finest bomb squad technician. Three years have passed since the explosion that shattered her life and now, fuelled by alcohol and prescription drugs, she's doing time as a detective with LAPD's Criminal Conspiracy Section.Then a seemingly innocuous bomb call turns into a charred murder scene. Carol is put on the case - and quickly discovers an intent behind a series of explosions that is far more disturbing than it first appeared. Each attack is designed specifically to kill bomb technicians and now Carol faces the most intense and personal fight of her life; a fight that reaches back three years into her past...

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