Time Bomb - Softcover

Kellerman, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345460693 ISBN 13: 9780345460691

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2003

Synopsis

Edgar Award winner Jonathan Kellerman once more explores the corruption of California's golden coast and produces a novel of complex characterizations and nonstop suspense. By the time psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware reached the school the damage was done: A sniper had opened fire on a crowded playground, but was gunned down before any children were hurt. While the TV news crews feasted on the scene an Alex began his therapy sessions with the traumatized children, he couldn't escape the image of a slight teenager clutching an oversized rifle. What was the identity behind the name and face: a would-be assassin, or just another victim beneath an indifferent California sky?

Intrigued by a request from the sniper's father to conduct a "psychological autopsy" of his child, Alex begins to uncover a strange pattern of innocence, neglect, and loss. Then suddenly it is more than a pattern -- it is a trail of blood. In the dead sniper's past was a dark and vicious plot. And in Alex Delaware's future is the stuff of grown-up nightmares: the face of real human evil.

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About this title

Review:

Kellerman is a thrilling writer... brilliant. (INDEPENDENT)

A slow-burning curdler. (GUARDIAN)

Riveting. A grip tighter than Ruth Rendell. (DAILY MAIL)

As ever, Kellerman has produced and immensely readable narrative. (GAY TIMES)

Book Description:

SINS OF THE PAST HAVE TAKEN ROOT...TO FLOWER ANEW IN HATRED AND DEATH

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0345460693
• ISBN 13: 9780345460691
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496