Blood Work by
Michael Connelly
hbk out March 98
Published by Orion
at £16.99
A new heart signals the start of a new life for forcibly retired FBI agent
Terry McCaleb. He plans nothing more adventurous than restoring his fishing
boat and eventually sailing back to the island where he grew up.
Then a beautiful stranger turns up and brings the unwelcome news that his
donor was her murdered sister. And the price of his life is that he must
find the killer. What starts as a reluctant exercise soon becomes and
obsession and McCaleb's new heart has to work harder than ever before as he
takes risks he knows he can't afford. When he discovers the appalling
motive behind the murder, no-one is more appalled than McCaleb himself, and
with good reason.
With clever twists and an ever-tightening spiral of tension, Connelly
produces a thriller that's as hard to put down as anything he's written. I
can readily forgive a plot that does go one twist too far when it's dressed
up as engagingly and cleverly as this is.
With Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford and Don Johnson all busily making movies
of his work, Michael Connelly is the hottest crime writer in the US at
present. On the evidence of Blood Work, it's easy to see why.
(
Val McDermid
- Gold Dagger winner & creator of Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan & Tony Hill)
Blood Work by
Michael Connelly