Critical Mass: A.v.i. Warshawski Novel (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic) - Hardcover

Paretsky, Sara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410463451 ISBN 13: 9781410463456

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2013

Synopsis

"New York Times"-bestselling author Sara Paretsky's brilliant protagonist V.I. Warshawski returns in another hard-hitting entry, combining razor-sharp plotting and compelling characters with a heady mix of timely political and social themes.

V.I. Warshawski's closest friend in Chicago is the Viennese-born doctor Lotty Herschel, who lost most of her family in the Holocaust. Lotty escaped to London in 1939 on the Kindertransport with a childhood playmate, Kitty Saginor Binder. When Kitty's daughter finds her life is in danger, she calls Lotty, who, in turn, summons V.I. to help. The daughter's troubles turn out to be just the tip of an iceberg of lies, secrets, and silence, whose origins go back to the mad competition among America, Germany, Japan and England to develop the first atomic bomb. The secrets are old, but the people who continue to guard them today will not let go of them without a fight.

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Praise for Sara Paretsky
BREAKDOWN
"Riveting...Warshawski once again proves a dogged champion for the truth at any cost."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
"Both Paretsky and she sharp-tongued justice-seeker, V.I. Warshawski, remain formidable in the masterfully suspenseful fifteenth novel in this superb and adored Chicago-set series. ... V.I. reigns as crime fiction's spiky, headstrong warrior woman of conscience, and Paretsky, classy champion of the powerless, has never been more imaginative, rueful, transfixing, and righteous."--"Booklist" (starred review)
"Plotted with all Paretsky's customary generosity, this standout entry harnesses her heroine's righteous anger to some richly deserving targets, all linked together in a truly amazing finale."-- "Kirkus" (starred review)
"What really matters in a Sara Paretsky mystery are the crimes behind the crimes ¬- the corrupt politics, the class divisions, the economic inequities, the dirty business practices and all the other injustices that incite the wicked deeds we love to read about. Breakdown takes its first crack at a soft target: a cult series of lurid vampire novels that sends a group of impressionable pre-teenage girls into a graveyard to perform a giddy initiation ritual for their book club. But once V.I. Warshawski, the intrepid private eye who sees herself as "a street fighter, a product of the mills and ethnic wars of Chicago's Steel City," has rescued the girls from the trauma of discovering the murder victim, the true villains come into sharper focus."--Marilyn Stasio, "The New York Times"
"One of the many pleasures of Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski novels is that the sharp-tongued, short-tempered detective often seems to be following clues that lead not just to the heart of whatever mystery is at hand, but also into the red-hot center of the zeitgeist itself... the dialogue is sharp, the satire of politics and media intuitions downrightbiting, and the descr

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1410463451
• ISBN 13: 9781410463456
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 693