Code Name: Gentkill - Softcover

Lindsay, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449149021 ISBN 13: 9780449149027

Publisher: Fawcett, 1996

Synopsis

"WELL WRITTEN AND PACKED WITH ACTION."
--The New York Times Book Review

Hoover's boys have come a long way. The once buttoned-down Feds are getting as crazed as the criminals they're up against--breaking rules, breaking chops, and making enemies in a war zone of crime. But now someone is targeting them.
"NONSTOP READING."
--Associated Press
Agent Mike Devlin is known for getting things done--by any means necessary. And with two FBI agents executed in cold blood and a million-dollar extortion case blowing up in the Agency's face, the beleaguered Detroit bureau needs Devlin's brand of insubordination.
"IRRESISTIBLE.
--Chicago Tribune
Scratching, clawing, and cheating his way to the truth, the Bureau's loose cannon becomes the one common denominator in two separate cases, each masterminded by criminals with a grudge against the Feds. And once Devlin is in deep there's only one way out--the hardest way of all. . . .
"Lindsay's familiarity with the Bureau lends an air of absolute truth to the narrative, including the vicious political Bureau infighting."
--The Cleveland Plain Dealer

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

Former FBI agent Lindsay (Witness to the Truth) has a vision of his protagonists?in this case the agents of the Detroit office?that makes them a blend of hard-bitten professionals and fraternity cutups. It may be authentic, but it gives his thriller an odd tone, as if neither the thrills nor the bitter, prankish humor are to be taken quite seriously. Agent Mike Devlin, his hero, is always balking at unfair authority. Here, he's out to do two things: first, collar two criminals?a serial killer who specializes in knocking off agents and an extortionist who is planting bombs at a medical center; second, nail his pompous, sleazy boss. The plotting, though swift, is a little too elaborate, with the two story lines never quite meshing as the author seems to intend. But there are plenty of thrills along the way, and a dizzy ransom denouement that is certainly a first in fiction. The book is basically the fictional equivalent of a tough Bruce Willis movie, with the pleasures and limitations of such an approach. Author tour.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

Agent Mike Devlin has been sentenced to FBI purgatory, working surveillance as part of a futile gambling sting, all because he has offended the special agent in charge (SAC) of the Detroit office. When an agent is murdered execution-style for no apparent reason, Devlin wants to work on the case, only to be blocked by the martinet SAC. As the investigation goes nowhere and the body count of agents keeps rising, the office finds itself stretched too thin, so Devlin is assigned to finish the paperwork on a different case, the seemingly botched extortion of $5 million from a hospital-management corporation. Never one to follow the rules too closely, Devlin spends more of his time on the murders than on the extortion, giving the SAC grounds to fire him. How Devlin solves both cases and manages to cause the downfall of the SAC makes for entertaining reading. This is essentially a police procedural set in the FBI, and former agent turned author Paul Lindsay makes his material ring utterly true. George Needham

About this edition

• Publisher: Fawcett
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0449149021
• ISBN 13: 9780449149027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 310