Fire and Wrath (Paperback)

Some fires never go out. They just wait.<br><br>Jack Coyle knows fire intimately. A career arsonist on the run, he understands its language, its seduction, the way it consumes everything it touches and leaves only ash and silence. But when Deputy Vance Miller contacts him with a desperate request, Jack realizes the past he's been running from has been waiting for him all along.<br><br>A serial arsonist is burning Plymouth County to the ground. The fires are calculated, personal, and escalating. The deputy needs someone who thinks like the arsonist, someone who understands the psychology of flame. He needs Jack. And despite every instinct screaming at him to walk away, Jack agrees. Because these aren't random fires. They're messages. And Jack recognizes the handwriting.<br><br>What begins as a straightforward investigation spirals into something far more dangerous as Jack is forced to confront the trauma he's spent years burying. Each crime scene pulls him deeper into his own past, into memories he's tried to burn away. As Jack and Vance close in on the arsonist, the concepts of justice and punishment begin to blur. The motif of fire, used throughout as both destruction and metaphor, becomes a mirror: for trauma, for passion, for the possibility of redemption.<br><br>In the end, what they unearth reveals not only the identity of the person behind these horrific crimes but forces Jack to face everything he's buried, everything he's burned, and the one truth fire can never destroy.<br><br>"Carter brings a literary sensibility and an emotional depth to this fast-paced, memorable thriller."  - Chris Mooney, #1 New York Times bestselling author<br><br>William F. Carter received his Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Harvard University.

William F. Carter holds a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Harvard University. His debut crime thriller, Fire and Wrath, has been praised by Chris Mooney, #1 New York Times bestselling author, as bringing 'a literary sensibility and an emotional depth to this fast paced, memorable thriller.' Carter's work has earned five-star editorial reviews from Reedsy Discovery, Books Paradise, and Book Buster, with readers comparing his Massachusetts-set fiction to Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly. Fire and Wrath marks the beginning of the Jack Coyle thriller series. Carter lives near Boston with his wife and daughters.