Scorch (Five Star Mystery Series) - Hardcover

Paoletti, Marc

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594146578 ISBN 13: 9781594146572

Publisher: Five Star, 2008

Synopsis

Book by Paoletti, Marc

About this title

From Booklist

David Cole’s career as a Navy SEAL didn’t end well. Life is OK now, though. He’s working in the movies, dating an exciting film director, and even teaching the underwater trade to his son, Ronny. But when he crosses swords with Gary Stanford, a film producer financed by organized crime, his world blows apart. Literally. Stanford decides to eliminate Cole and hires a disgraced SEAL whom Cole drummed out of the navy because of his actions during a failed Iraq mission that tainted Cole’s career. Frank Ruger sabotages one of Cole’s jobs, leaving Cole terribly burned. Struggling with the never-ending pain and obsessed with revenge, Cole sets out to kill Ruger, a very formidable opponent. This is your basic action thriller with enough violence for at least two Die Hard installments. But like that cinema franchise, the novel works because the good guy and the villains are believable, realistically motivated, and emotionally scarred individuals working through their issues with knives, guns, and bombs rather than conventional therapy. Hey, whatever gets you to a better place. Genuinely engaging escapist fiction with a bit of a surprise ending. --Wes Lukowsky

From Publishers Weekly

Having worked in Hollywood as a pyrotechnician, Paoletti provides an authentic backdrop for his debut, an otherwise routine revenge thriller. When David Cole, an ex-Navy SEAL and veteran of the first Gulf War who's the special effects supervisor on a movie set that resembles an Iraqi battlefield, fires a couple of incompetent underlings, Ned Brandenburg and Levar Watkins, the two resolve to make Cole pay a deadly price. Brandenburg and Watkins team with Frank Ruger, a psychotic former military colleague of Cole's, who blames Cole for his dishonorable discharge. Though Cole survives the death trap Ruger sets for him with severe burns, Cole's 21-year-old son dies in the blast. While Cole has no plausible motive for killing his beloved son, he becomes the prime suspect in the crime. The brutal violence and lack of psychological depth limit this one's appeal. (May)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Five Star
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1594146578
• ISBN 13: 9781594146572
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 299