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Yale professor Dr. Edward Kender's father is undergoing chemotherapy when the supply of a critical accompanying drug suddenly runs out. Unwilling to accept the drug company's disingenuous excuse of production line problems, Dr. Kender hires private investigator Erin Pulask to prove there is something more sinister going on at Schiffer Hartwin's manufacturing facility in Indiana.
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An action-packed FBI thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter!
In Connecticut, the murder of a pharmaceutical bigwig brings in Savich and Sherlock, along with local Agent Bowie Richards and P.I. Erin Pulaski. Back in Washington, an important U.S. senator is terrorized by an unknown entity, and is calling for Savich's special skills.
When the Vice President is nearly killed, it's clear these crimes are linked--and Savich and Sherlock must act fast to stop a killer...
Critiques (4)
Critique du Publishers Weekly
In Coulter's fab 14th FBI paranormal romantic thriller (after KnockOut), FBI special agents Dillon Savich and his wife, Lacey Sherlock, look into the possible haunting of a U.S. senator by his dead wife as well as a more earthly crime: Germany's Schiffer Hartwin Pharmaceutical, which has its U.S. headquarters in Connecticut, might be deliberately withholding an inexpensive cancer fighting drug, Culovort, to force cancer patients to require the far more expensive Eloxium, in short supply. The FBI probe dovetails with one by PI and part-time ballet teacher Erin Pulaski, who's hired by a Yale professor worried about his cancer-stricken father being affected by the shortage. In a wild coincidence, Bowie Richards, the FBI special agent in charge of the New Haven field office, also hires Erin-to babysit his daughter, a ballet student of hers. The attraction between Bowie and Erin grows as they help Dillon and Lacey crack a complicated double case. Coulter fans will want to see more of this new crime-fighting duo. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Critique de Booklist
Pharmaceutical companies and their honchos are the villains in Coulter's latest caper featuring married FBI Agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich. When German firm Schiffer Hartwin stops making its off-patent colon-cancer drug Culovort, PI Erin Pulaski breaks into the firms's Connecticut offices to find out why, working for a client whose father colon-cancer patient is one of many who will be forced to take a far more expensive drug in lieu of Culovort. At the same time, the mutilated body of a German fixer for the drug firm is found on federal land near the company offices, bringing in the FBI. Things become more convoluted as Pulaski gets personally involved with New Haven Special Agent in Charge Bowie Richards, who's initially out of joint at having Sherlock and Savich called in on his case. In a subplot, the psychic Savich works with a venerable senator whose late wife seems to be sending danger signals. In this sixteenth entry in the FBI Thriller series, Coulter's breezy style ( When life gives you lemons, add vodka ) and nonstop action make this relentlessly readable, even as she gives the needle to pharmaceutical firms in general.--Leber, Michele Copyright 2010 Booklist
Critique de Kirkus
Coulter (KnockOut, 2009, etc.) delivers the 14th novel in her long-running series of thrillers featuring FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock, this time introducing two new major characters.Helmut Blauvelt, a German national, is found murdered on federal land in Connecticut, his fingertips cut off and his face disfigured. It turns out he's a troubleshooter for the nearby pharmaceutical company Schiffer Hartwin. On the night of the murder, private investigator Erin Pulaski was stealing documents from the Schiffer Hartwin CEO's own computer, to help prove that the company had been causing an artificial scarcity of an in-demand cancer medication. She didn't kill Blauvelt, but wants to know who did. And, coincidentally, Pulaski is also the ballet teacher for the daughter of hardworking, widowed FBI agent Bowie Richards, who's investigating the Blauvelt murder with Coulter regulars Savich and Sherlock. The primary mystery's drug-company angle seems to be an attempt to tackle a health-care issue for topicality's sakegiving characters multiple opportunities to talk about pharma wrongdoing. Overall, however, despite attempts to liven things upincluding a scene involving an exploding SUVit's a fairly standard procedural, with predictable and sometimes rather lifeless dialogue. A second, supernaturally tinged mystery involves a U.S. senator apparently being visited by the ghost of his dead wife, while at the same time seeming to be targeted by assassinseventually leading to the vice president of the United States ending up in the hospital. Unfortunately, this mystery is shoehorned awkwardly into the action, and at times feels as if it had drifted in from an altogether different novel. That said, the two new characters, Pulaski and Richards, are fine additions, and the sections that focus on them feel the most authentic and are the most entertaining. A so-so outing, although Coulter's fans will likely enjoy the new characters.]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Critique du Library Journal
Coulter's (www.catherinecoulter.com) 14th thriller to feature married FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock follows the No. 1 New York Times best seller KnockOut (2009), also available from Brilliance Audio and read by Paul Costanzo (www.paulcostanzo.com) and Renee Raudman (reneeraudman.com). Here, Savich and Sherlock investigate the murder of a German drug manufacturer employee. Contanzo and Raudman persuasively capture both the loving repartee between Savich and Sherlock and the budding romance between FBI agent Bowie Richards and PI Erin Pulaski. Highly recommended for all Coulter and romance thriller fans. [The Putnam hc, published in June, was a New York Times best seller.-Ed.]-Ilka Gordon, Siegal Coll. of Judaic Studies Lib., Cleveland (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
