City of Windows
the first in a new addictive action FBI thriller series
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4.5 • 6 Ratings
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- £2.99
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Publisher Description
MEET LUCAS PAGE: A DETECTIVE WHO SEES CRIME FROM A DIFFERENT ANGLE...
'A great plot, a great setting, and even better characters - I loved this' Lee Child
'Told at a ferocious pace in staccato prose, this thriller truly gets the blood racing' Daily Mail
Severely injured on a case, Page retired from the FBI to become a professor. But now his friend has been killed by a sniper in New York and Page's extraordinary mind is needed urgently.
The shot that killed the man should have been impossible: in the middle of a blizzard, down a busy New York avenue, into a moving car. But it happened.
Only Page can work out the science behind the shot, the geometry that reveals the killer's location. The logic that says the shooter has killed like this before. And will do it again, and again, until they are stopped ...
'A page-turner painted with soaring prose' Gregg Hurwitz
'Relevant, smart and action-packed' Christopher Brookmyre
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Brilliant astrophysicist Lucas Page, the distinctive hero of this outstanding series launch from Pobi (American Woman), used to be an FBI agent who could survey a crime scene and automatically convert the topography to geometric forms and numbers. This ability would allow him, for example, to pinpoint the origin of a gunshot in the middle of a city. Then the loss of a leg, an arm, and an eye in a shoot-out put an end to his FBI career and his first marriage, but his mental acuity remained. Ten years later, Lucas teaches at Columbia University and writes books; he and his second wife are raising five foster children. When Lucas's former FBI partner, Doug Hartke, is fatally shot by a sniper while driving in Midtown Manhattan, he reluctantly agrees to help FBI special agent Brett Kehoe track down the culprit. Lucas quickly determines the sniper's rooftop location, but it was a close to impossible shot, "like trying to thread a needle while riding a mechanical bull set to Mot rhead." More shootings occur, and the victims' only connections are law enforcement careers. The tense plot is balanced by the prickly Lucas's cerebral investigating skills. This promises to be Pobi's breakout thriller.
