BALEFIRE / THE GLITTER DOME
Goddard, Kenneth W. / Wambaugh, Joseph
Language: English
Published by Bantam, 1984
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: The Book Abyss, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.The Book Abyss
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Condition: Used - Good
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Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. A bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Good reading copies. Clean. Store Stamped. --- --- BALEFIRE --- A team of dedicated police investigators and crime-lab specialists work against time to track down Thanatos, a professional killer responsible for a series of brutal, unexplained murders. --- THE GLITTER DOME --- In his finest, most compelling blend of wild humor and powerful drama, Joseph Wambaugh leads us to into the Hollywood scene to demonstrate the effects of that heady, amoral world on four sets of police partners enmeshed in the glamour and the grime, the hustle and the horror. They live and work in a dizzying mix of moguls and starlets, elaborate parties, outrageous and sordid actions; a place where sex and drugs are open and the big deals are undercover. . .
Seller Inventory # 5016
- Title
- BALEFIRE / THE GLITTER DOME
- Author
- Goddard, Kenneth W. / Wambaugh, Joseph
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Publication year
- 1984
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0553240293
- ISBN 13
- 9780553240290
- Seller catalogs
- BUNDLED BARGAINS, MYSTERY BARGAINS, Mystery/Thriller
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From the Author
BALEFIRE was my first published novel, and it remains my favorite to date, [although DOUBLE BLIND comes in a close second, and I have to confess a perverse fondness for THE ALCHEMIST], if only because it's the most frightening book I've written on a personal level.
Why so frightening? Simply because police officers are almost never trained to deal with professional terrorists, for the perfectly logical reason that it is highly unlikely that they will ever run across such an individual in their entire careers. Instead, they're trained to deal with drunk drivers, thoughtless drug dealers, petty thieves, inept burglars, and the like.
So when a real, honest-to-god professional terrorist named Thanatos shows up along the shoreline of Huntington Beach, California, sent by a anti-American 'Committee' to destroying the scenic beach city as a demonstration against the 1984 Olympic games, the local cops have no idea what's happening, and therefore don't stand much of a chance. Which puts them in a terrible situation when they're forced to chose between defending their city, their families ... and themselves.
A kind review from Playboy: "You'll go from the first chapter to the final sentence before you remember to get up for a sandwich ... beautifully plotted."
From John Saul: "Balefire comes at you like a firestorm. The action starts fast and then accelerates through to the last page."
And Publisher's Weekly: "A real heart-attack of a climax!"
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