Burn Factor - Hardcover

Mills, Kyle

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0749905581 ISBN 13: 9780749905583

Publisher: Piatkus, 2001

Synopsis

'Kyle Mills is a writer to watch' TOM CLANCY Quinn Barry wants to be an FBI agent - someday. Right now she's just a nobody, a computer programmer toiling in a basement office, revamping ancient computer programming against impossible deadlines. Only, carrying out some routine maintenance on the FBI's new Combined DNA Index System - CODIS - Quinn finds a link between five unsolved crimes, a series of brutal murders that it has never matched before. Telling her boss of her discovery, however, has unexpected repercussions. Blamed for the 'error' and immediately reassigned to Quantico on what turns out to be little more than a routine upgrade, Quinn begins to suspect a more frightening scenario than a mere glitch in CODIS's programming. What if there is a serial killer at work whose activities have up to now been masked by the very system set up to detect him or her? Her suspicions cost Quinn her job, but that's the last thing on her mind as she finds her own life at risk. It's certain no one is going to believe that a 22-year-old computer clerk has unearthed one of the agency's darkest, dirtiest secrets - a US military machine prepared to overlook various character flaws in their key personnel, even psychopathic tendencies...

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Review:

"'In the world of thrillers, I have a feeling that Kyle Mills will soon be a very big player' FREDERICK FORSYTH 'A new genius for taut, compulsive adventure writing' TOM CLANCY 'Mills blends fine character work with a high-torque plot' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 'Writing in the Tom Clancy tradition, Kyle Mills has produced a power-packed drama about the men and women who battle the bad guys to protect us all' William H. Webster, former director of the FBI and CIA"

About this edition

• Publisher: Piatkus
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0749905581
• ISBN 13: 9780749905583
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384