Hard Rain
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4.0 • 44 Ratings
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- $6.99
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Publisher Description
Twelve bones are missing.
When a U.S. colonel is found murdered in his Istanbul home, the grisliest detail is the one that links his murder to another that soon follows. To Special Agent Vin Cooper, it looks like there’s a serial killer at large in Turkey.
But looks can be deceiving.
Onetime lovers, now the uneasiest of partners, Vin Cooper and Special Agent Anna Masters follow a trail of clues from Istanbul to Iraq and beyond. The victims were not selected at random. What looked like ritual was rife with clues. As evidence of a conspiracy snakes up the chain of command, these two seasoned special agents must dodge bullets, defuse bombs, and avoid being buried alive in their desperate effort to short-circuit a plan for world domination more audacious than they could ever have imagined.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Maj. Vin Cooper, a special agent, or internal affairs cop, for the United States Air Force office of special investigations, and special agent Anna Masters, who recently broke up with Vin and is now swinging from the chandelier for some attorney from the JAG corps, deal with one lethal threat after another in Rollins's rip-roaring third novel to feature the tough, wisecracking Cooper (after The Death Trust and A Knife Edge). Vin and Anna have come to Istanbul to investigate the murder of Col. Emmet Portman, the U.S. air attach to Turkey, who's been chopped into small pieces and laid out like a model airplane kit that requires assembly. As the pair seek answers in Turkey and later Paris and Iraq, they leave behind a lot of bodies, both friend and foe. The convoluted trail leads them to a plot involving many countries, none of which has America's best interests at heart. The exciting, violent ending promises more thrills to come.
Customer Reviews
Vin Cooper Sequence Is Off
Hard Rain should be book three (3) not two (2) and as a result you have a key character getting killed early. A Knife Edge should be book two (2). Oh, well.
Thus far it has been a pretty good read. Vincent Cooper is a funny guy with Mitch Horvath abilities.
Interesting but
This book was excellent in respect to the villain. He was not treated as a main character but more as a bit player. I was not able to determine him as bad until the books end. I must admit that the death of two main characters was not something I expected or enjoyed and their deaths resulted in less emotional feelings from the books star. I also thought that the final plot reason was stretched way to far, without some additional support.