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    Demolition Angel
    Audiobook (abridged)5 hours

    Demolition Angel

    Written by Robert Crais

    Narrated by Patricia Kalember

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    "TERRIFIC . . . EXPLOSIVE . . . [A] HIGH POWERED THRILL RIDE."
    -The Wall Street Journal

    "CRAIS IS AT THE TOP OF HIS GAME, and Demolition Angel delivers the goods. With a bang. . . . It's Silence of the Lambs meets Speed as down-on-her-luck former bomb-squad ace Carol Starkey plays cat-and-mouse with a serial bomber. . . . Crais knows how to press all the right buttons in keeping the story line taut and the action, well, explosive."
    -San Francisco Chronicle

    "GRIPPING . . . CRAIS PILES ON PLOT TWISTS . . . gathering the separate threads at the end and igniting them like a string of fireworks."
    -People

    "A POWERFUL, SELF-CONTAINED NOVEL OF SUSPENSE that has the compactness, velocity, and effectiveness of a well-aimed bullet . . . This is a thriller that works on every level, a pivotal work from a crime novelist operating at the top of his game."
    -Los Angeles Times

    "FASCINATING AND FRIGHTENINGLY BELIEVABLE . . . Starkey is one of the toughest characters to grace the crowded field of thriller books in a long time."
    -USA Today
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 5, 2000
    ISBN9780553753080
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    Demolition Angel
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    Robert Crais

    Robert Crais is the author of the bestselling Cole & Pike novels. A native of Louisiana, Crais moved to Hollywood in the late 70s where he began a successful career in television, writing scripts for such major series as Cagney & Lacey, Miami Vice and Hill Street Blues. In the mid 80s, Crais created a series of crime novels based around the characters Cole & Pike. In addition, Crais has also written several bestselling standalone thrillers. Robert Crais lives in LA with his wife and family.

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    • 4/5
      This is about a member (currently reassigned) of the L.A. Bomb Squad who was critically injured when an earthquake interrupted the defusing of a bomb, killing her partner/lover. Very interesting information about bomb builders, bomb making, how bomb squads work and a mysterious bomber who is a folk hero to his kind. This features a very flawed heroine, but makes for a very interesting read.
    • 4/5
      Crais is best known for his series of novels featuring Elvis Cole but I haven't read any of those. This is the second novel I've read by him, the first was Hostage and that was a great page turner, just an excellent story. This one's a page turner as well. Detective Carol Starkey, still recovering from a bomb blast that killed her (for a couple minutes until she was revived), is investigating another bombing. Someone is targeting bomb technicians. About halfway in comes the first big plot twist and from there it rockets along with several new twists thrown in. Naturally things end with a bang. Fun story. This was an excellent crime novel diversion.
    • 5/5
      WOW, this was a grab you and not let go book. INTENSE would not do this justice. A MUST READ for any serious fiction reader.
    • 4/5
      The story centres around Carol Starkey a bomb squad detective who is still pulling herself and her life back together after surviving a bomb black three years earlier.Starkey and colleagues from the Criminal Conspiracy Section and her old team at the bomb squad are in a race against time to find the identity and whereabouts of a mysterious serial bomber known only as 'Mr Red'. It's a good plot and great mystery, but Carol Starkey's character is a little too one dimensional to really work. She and the other characters are interesting, but this isn't as good at Crais's other work, and one is left with the impression that he doesn't write women very well. That said, the pace of the book is fast enough to get past any limitations in the characterisation.
    • 4/5
      Carol Sharkey understands bombs, works with them, investigates them, has lost friends to them in her job as Detective in the LAPD, the last person she lost was her love and she's now living on prescription drugs, cigarettes and alcohol. Another detective is killed and she has to join forces with John Michael Fowles to find out who, but the obvious is not always the answer.
    • 1/5
      This is abridged. Scribd does not make it clear it’s abridged. Shame on Scribd.
    • 4/5
      Loved it.....need to read more in this guy!
    • 4/5
      A member of the Los Angeles police department bomb squad is killed inspecting a suspicious package and detective Carol Starkey is assigned to investigate. Starkey, introduced in two earlier Elvis Cole novels, was formerly a member of the bomb squad who was “killed” three years earlier in an explosion. She is suffering from posttraumatic stress syndrome; she drinks heavily and has difficulty relating to people. Starkey is hoping to be reassigned to the bomb squad but is so psychologically damaged that it is difficult to imagine her even holding on to her job as a detective. Her heavy reliance on gin and smoking to manage her stress make it unlikely that she will be able to function again as a healthy member of society. Those problems also made it difficult for me to identify with her as the protagonist. I found her compulsive smoking to be particularly distasteful. Nevertheless, I found myself warming to Starkey despite her flaws. A serial murderer known as Mr. Red is the suspected bomber but he is an enigma; his motivation is unclear, his identity is unknown, there are no known pictures of him, and his whereabouts is a mystery. The FBI and ATF believe that he sells his services as an executioner when it pleases him but several of his bombs appear to have targeted members of various municipal bomb squads for unknown reasons. As Starkey investigates the case she finds evidence that makes her question the identity of the bomber. The mystery is further deepened by the presence of an ATF agent who appears to be hiding something. “Demolition Angel” poses a multifaceted mystery that leads to a number of surprises. The ending is a bit too melodramatic but most readers will find it to be a compelling read.
    • 3/5
      I'm a huge fan but this was so disappointing. The MC is a walking, cussing, hard drinking cliche. Think I'll take a pass on this new series & wait for the next instalment of his old one.
    • 5/5
      This is one of Crais' rare novels that does not have Elvis Cole of Joe Pike as the main protagonists. Carol Starkey is a bomb squad expert who is still suffering from the emotional and physical affects of having survived a bombing. In fact she was dead for a couple of minutes before being revived by first responders.Her current case puts her up against a truly powerful and sick bomber plus she is fighting off her attraction to a federal agent who she sees taking over her case. Crais includes a great deal of detail about bomb making, bomb effects and police procedure in bombing cases. He does explain in his introduction that he has not included in everything.My one criticism would be the lack of humour that one has come to expect in Crias' novels. It always pacifies the often grim and violent scenarios he comes up with. Starkey is often a very unpleasant woman and difficult to warm up to although one has to consider what she has gone through in the previous three years.
    • 4/5
      Everyone I know loves Crais. I tried one of his series once and it just didn't do it for me. My friend, the bookshop owner, gave me this one for my birthday. It's not part of his series and it is amazing. Carol Starkey is a victim of her job in many ways. As part of a bomb squad, she was nearly blasted to bits. And now, another bomb squader is a bomb victim and she's leading the team to find out who did it. I did not like any of the characters in the book. This is usually a quick ticket to putting it down. But, the first chapter of this book is the most compelling first chapter I've ever read and I was sucked in and glad of it.
    • 4/5
      I miss Elvis. Actually, a really good book despite the new protagonist, Carol Starkey. The love story didn't quite ring true, but overall a good read.
    • 3/5
      Carol Starkey died in the bomb explosion, but she was resuscitated. A bomb technician for the LAPD she has been asked to head a team searching for Mr. Red, a very sophisticated and clever bomb maker who targets specific bomb experts hoping to one day make the FBI’s top Ten Most Wanted List. She’s haunted by the explosion that almost killed her, and, because her partner and lover had been killed in the explosion that almost took her’s. The problem is that she discovers evidence that leads her to believe a copycat killer is trying to emulate Mr. Red and take credit for his work. Jack Pell, an ATF agent who has been seeking Mr. Red, links up with Carol and despite her initial reluctance, afraid she might lose the case to the “feebs,” they join forces.

      All is not what it appears, however, and Starkey’s sources tell her that Pell is a rogue agent. He had been injured in the first bomb blast attributed to Mr. Red and because his retinas had become loosened he was gradually losing his sight and he had sworn to get the bomber on his own. Carol and Jack use a computer chat room populated with bomber wannabees to contact Mr. Red. Mr. Red is upset that his bomb technique is being emulated because he believes it will hinder his getting on the Most Wanted List. Carol discovers that the copycat bomb was identical except for one small detail that was not known to the police, so she begins to suspect that her partner had been murdered by someone in the police department who had had access to the specific details of Mr. Red’s bomb construction.

      Crais is the author of the Elvis Cole detective series, books that I have enjoyed very much. This one is very different and perhaps a little less satisfactory, although it’s hard to say why, perhaps I just miss Cole’s wisecracks.