Code Name: Gentkill - Hardcover

Lindsay, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0708958397 ISBN 13: 9780708958391

Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books, 1996

Synopsis

There's a sadistic serial killer on the loose in Detroit, and he's targeted shocking victims: FBI agents. As the Bureau desperately tries to identify this murderer, a horrifying extortion scheme begins when a sophisticated bomber demands five million dollars to call off his attacks on a children's hospital...

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From the Inside Flap

RITTEN 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'

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.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0708958397
• ISBN 13: 9780708958391
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 408