Purity in Death
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4.6 • 736 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts, writing as J.D. Robb, comes a shocking new novel in the futuristic series... A frightening new computer virus is spreading and it knows no boundaries...Louie Cogburn had spent three days holed up in his apartment, staring at his computer screen. His pounding headache was unbearable... like spikes drilling into his brain. And it was getting worse. Finally, when someone knocked at his door, Louie picked up a baseball bat, opened the door, and started swinging...
The first cop on the scene fired his stunner twice and Louie died instantly. Detective Eve Dallas has taken over the investigation, but there's nothing to explain the man's sudden rage or death. The only clue is a bizarre message left on his computer screen: Absolute Purity Achieved.
And when a second man dies under nearly identical circumstances, Dallas starts racking her brain for answers and for courage to face the impossible... that this might be a computer virus able to spread from machine to man...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"A sick computer can and does infect other computers, but not its operator," claims Roarke, dreamboat husband of New York's hotshot futuristic cop, Lieutenant Eve Dallas, in the 15th installment in Robb's 'Death' series (after Reunion in Death). Roarke's theory is put to the test when pedophiles and drug dealers begin dying from a computer-generated virus that literally blows the mind of its victims. It doesn't take long for Eve to figure out that a vigilante terrorist organization with superior tech knowledge is meting out its own form of justice the group even leaves the message "absolute purity achieved" on victims' computer screens. Pinpointing the group is more of a challenge. Suspects could be anyone from members of the justice system to formerly abused children, the latter of which strikes a personal and painful nerve in Eve, who was abused as a child. Readers familiar with Eve's history and the sea of characters brought over from her previous books will be more comfortable than first- timers attempting to wade through this sluggish installment. Despite Robb's smooth-as-glass prose, her latest isn't likely to win new converts to the series.
Customer Reviews
As if you were right there in the room!
J.D. Robb has built this incredible series that just get better and better with each book. But oh my word, this one was so well written, so well thought out, and so well executed you could have swore you were there every single step of the way. You literally feel like you’re part of Lieutenant Eve Dallas’s team and yet also omniscient as you explore it all with her. You feel the effects of an extremely long and taxing day every time she comes home and takes a shower your muscles literally relax along with hers. Also, the connections that these characters have with one another feels real, and it matters. When someone is injured be it severely or just slightly you feel the emotion, the compassion, respect, and genuine love between a group of people who care about one another’s wellbeing and try to always maintain a supportive, dedicated, and yet still playful group of individuals who all have their own little quirks and are all so multifaceted. There is hardly ever a character big or small that doesn’t have depth, even those who are the ones we come to meet after they have already been murdered. They become this multilayered person who had a life, who had a world they were living in before they met their end. How often is it possible to say you truly get to know the person who is already dead when you meet them in literature like this, the answer isn’t very often. When we find Dallas out working in the field with Officer Peabody or any other member of the team she often puts together you’re there; in the hot, humid, sweaty, and nasty summer heat smelling soy dogs and trash, hearing car horns and yelling and just general busy city sounds. But this time, when every piece of the puzzle started to fall into place for this case and we find ourselves back at Central, getting ready to go into interview and you find yourself so immersed in what’s happening you would swear you were there. And then the next part was just absolutely written so well that you cannot put the book down until it’s done because it’s so palpable, you ARE there! You are in Eve’s office, having the conversation and these perfect little nuances, the body language, even the tone of voice of each character can be felt, heard, and seen so clearly there can be no mistake that you were apart of it all somehow. Immersed so deeply that you can recall every detail and feel as though you helped solve this case and these murders, putting to rest the mystery of “Purity Achieved.”
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Purity In Death
Awesome read great plot and love the time angle. Thanks k.