Fireplay - Softcover

Chazin, Suzanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0515137138 ISBN 13: 9780515137132

Publisher: Jove, 2004

Synopsis

After a fire kills two of New York's bravest, Georgia Skeehan is forced to collaborate with an arsonist-turned-FBI informant--a man she believes is a master "torch." As Georgia is drawn deep undercover, the truth--and her own desire for vengeance--bring her closer to a killer.

Close enough to burn.

About this title

About the Author

Suzanne Chazin is a member of the International Asso-ciation of Arson Investigators. She has unusual access to the inner workings of the FDNY: her husband is a high-ranking chief and twenty-one-year veteran of the department, and her research has included extensive interviews with many of its members.

From Publishers Weekly

This third novel in the series featuring Georgia Skeehan (Flashover) has the FDNY fire marshal investigating a fire in a swank Manhattan restaurant that kills two veteran firefighters. Skeehan initially suspects notorious extortionist Mike McLaughlin. McLaughlin, known as the Freezer (because "that's where his victims always ended up") used to run with an Irish street gang in Hell's Kitchen before going solo. He's long been shaking down the owner of Cafe Treize and may have torched the restaurant when the owner got too far behind in his payments. But there's a catch: the FDNY can't investigate McLaughlin because he's an informant for the FBI-he helps the Feds spy on a radical environmentalist group called the Green Warriors, who have been contracting out their acts of sabotage to McLaughlin. Skeehan has to go undercover in a joint FDNY-FBI investigation of both the restaurant fire and the Green Warriors, who may have some connection to the fire, and she's torn between her loyalties to the two organizations. Other complications include a firefighter who wants to avenge the death of his two comrades, and the odd behavior of Skeehan's partner, Randy Carter, who appears to be holding out on her as the investigation unfolds. There's also Rick DeAngelo, the estranged father of Skeehan's son, who turns out to be working for the New Jersey mob, and Skeehan's romance with another FDNY marshal Mac Marenko. Chazin once again offers an inside view of the FDNY and visceral descriptions of firefighting, but the complex plot is not as tight as it could be, and the characters-apart from Skeehan herself-are not memorable. Instead of blazing, this third installment merely smolders.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Jove
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0515137138
• ISBN 13: 9780515137132
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 320