EDGE by Jeffrey Deaver
Book Quote:
“The hitter was now reaching in to unlatch my door. I squinted in pain, grateful for the man’s delay. It meant that Alissa could gain more distance. My people would know our exact position through GPS and could have police here in fifteen or twenty minutes. Please, I thought, turning toward the path she’d be escaping down, the shallow creekbed.
Except that she wasn’t running anywhere.”
Book Review:
Review by Lynn Harnett  (NOV 27, 2010)
Action-suspense master Deaver’s latest nail-biter pits the narrator, Corte, a government protection expert, known as a “shepherd,” against a ruthless “lifter,” Henry Loving, whose job is to grab the target – a DC cop – and extract information from him by any means possible, meaning torture, as we’ve already seen in a grisly prologue.
What this information is and who wants it are two of the questions Corte is trying to answer as he shepherds the cop, Ryan Kessler, and his wife and sister-in-law from one not-quite-safe house to another, setting traps and dodging bullets as they go.
Deaver fans get the non-stop pace we expect as the characters unfold in increments, raising more questions with every quirk and revelation. Corte, whose passion is board games and game theory, prides himself on humorless ingenuity and – if it weren’t for the lives at stake – would thoroughly enjoy pitting himself against a well-matched opponent like Loving.
The twists, reversals and double reversals keep the pace breakneck, while complicating the mix with various intelligence agencies and cops and, of course, the heavy hand of bureaucracy. Corte slowly reveals himself as not quite the automaton he tries to appear, and readers will hope to see more of him.
| AMAZON READER RATING: |  from 116 readers |
| PUBLISHER: | Simon & Schuster (November 2, 2010) |
| REVIEWER: | Lynn Harnett |
| AVAILABLE AS A KINDLE BOOK? | YES! Start Reading Now! |
| AUTHOR WEBSITE: | Jeffrey Deaver |
| EXTRAS: | Excerpt |
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Bibliography:
Lincoln Rhyme/Amelia Sachs series:
- The Bone Collector (1997)
- The Coffin Dancer (1998)
- The Empty Chair (2000)
- The Stone Monkey (2002)
- The Vanished Man (2003)
- The Twelfth Card (2005)
- The Cold Moon (2006) *
- The Broken Window (2008)
- The Burning Wire (2010) *
- The Kill Room (June 2013)
Kathryn Dance* series:
- The Sleeping Doll (2007)
- Roadside Crosses (2009)
- XO (2012)
Rune series:
- Manhattan is my Beat (1980)
- Death of a Blue Movie Star (1990)
- Hard News (1991)
Stand-alone Mysteries and Thrillers:
- Voodoo (1988)
- Always a Thief (1989)
- Mistress of Justice (1993)
- The Lesson of her Death (1993)
- Praying for Sleep (1995)
- A Maiden’s Grave (1996)
- Devil’s Teardrop (1999)
- Speaking in Tongues (2000)
- The Blue Nowhere (2001)
- Garden of Beasts: A Novel of Berlin 1936
- The Bodies Left Behind (2008)
- Edge (2010)
- The October List (October 2013)
Stories:
- Twisted: The Collected Stories of Jeffery Deaver (2003)
- More Twisted: Collected Stores, Vol II (2006)
- Trouble in My Mind: The Collected Stories, Vol 3 (March 2014)
007:
- Carte Blanche (2011)
Writing as William Jefferies (Location Scout John Pelham Mystery series):
- Shallow Graves (1992)
- Bloody River Blues (1993)
- Hell’s Kitchen (2001)
Movies from Books:
- Dead Silence (1997) (based on A Maiden’s Grave)
- The Bone Collector (1999)
November 27, 2010
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Tags: CIA, FBI, Jeffery Deaver · Posted in: Thriller/Spy/Caper