基本信息出版社：Putnam Publishing Group
页码：320 页
出版日期：2003年05月
ISBN：0399150536
条形码：9780399150531
版本：第1版
装帧：精装
开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet
外文书名：追击纵火犯
内容简介 In Fireplay, Georgia Skeehan is forced to work with an arsonist turned informant - a man she believes is a master "torch" whose crimes have remained unsolved for years - and investigate the scene of a vicious New York City blaze. As the informant draws her deeper and deeper undercover, she witnesses the meeting of a shadowy group plotting a crime of unprecedented proportions and is shocked to see someone from her past among the participants - a lover she hasn't seen in years.
Finding closed doors and higher-ups who don't trust her at every turn, she must confront a particularly painful unsolved case - the fire that killed someone very dear to her - in order to unlock the answers behind this most recent catastrophe. As Georgia gets closer to the truth and her own personal vengeance, she discovers a killer she would have never suspected.
From Publishers Weekly
This third novel in the series featuring Georgia Skeehan (Flashover) has the FDNY fire marshal investigating a fire in a swank Manhattan restaurant that kills two veteran firefighters. Skeehan initially suspects notorious extortionist Mike McLaughlin. McLaughlin, known as the Freezer (because "that's where his victims always ended up") used to run with an Irish street gang in Hell's Kitchen before going solo. He's long been shaking down the owner of Cafe Treize and may have torched the restaurant when the owner got too far behind in his payments. But there's a catch: the FDNY can't investigate McLaughlin because he's an informant for the FBI-he helps the Feds spy on a radical environmentalist group called the Green Warriors, who have been contracting out their acts of sabotage to McLaughlin. Skeehan has to go undercover in a joint FDNY-FBI investigation of both the restaurant fire and the Green Warriors, who may have some connection to the fire, and she's torn between her loyalties to the two organizations. Other complications include a firefighter who wants to avenge the death of his two comrades, and the odd behavior of Skeehan's partner, Randy Carter, who appears to be holding out on her as the investigation unfolds. There's also Rick DeAngelo, the estranged father of Skeehan's son, who turns out to be working for the New Jersey mob, and Skeehan's romance with another FDNY marshal Mac Marenko. Chazin once again offers an inside view of the FDNY and visceral descriptions of firefighting, but the complex plot is not as tight as it could be, and the characters-apart from Skeehan herself-are not memorable. Instead of blazing, this third installment merely smolders.
From Booklist
Fire Marshal and single mother Georgia Skeehan returns in her third mystery-adventure about New York's bravest. When two firefighters are killed in a deliberately set restaurant blaze, Georgia and her veteran partner, Ray Carter, find the culprit, a slick, vicious arsonist-for-hire who has a knack for staying out of jail. This time, it seems, he's an informant for the FBI, and the only way the FDNY can keep tabs on him is for Georgia to go undercover with the bureau. Unfortunately, during a meeting with eco-terrorists, she spots her ex-boyfriend, the father of her child. Is Rick a terrorist? For her son's sake, Georgia has to be sure before she turns him in. The fire-fighting detail is both horrifying and fascinating, and there are some moments of solid suspense, but this time Chazin has trouble controlling her plot. She manages to pull things together fairly well by the close--but not without some obvious groaning and stretching. Georgia is a winning character, tough but vulnerable; let's hope for a tighter story line for her next time. Stephanie Zvirin
Book Dimension
Height (mm) 237 Width (mm) 161
作者简介 Suzanne Chazin
Suzanne Chazin is an American author best known for the Georgia Skeehan mystery series, published by Putnam, about a New York City female firefighter-turned-fire marshal.
She was born in Manhattan, New York and is a 1982 graduate of Northwestern University. Chazin spent 18 years in journalism, writing for publications including Family Circle, The Ladies Home Journal, Money Magazine and The New York Times. She is a former senior editor and writer for Reader's Digest, where she won several national awards.
Her first novel in the Georgia Skeehan series, The Fourth Angel, was released in February 2001, followed by Flashover in 2002 and Fireplay in 2003. Her novels received critical praise and have been excerpted in the New York Times. In May 2003, she received the Washington Irving Children's Book Choice Awards for both The Fourth Angel and Flashover.
Chazin has taught fiction and non-fiction writing at The New School in Manhattan, New York University, Sarah Lawrence College and The Smithsonian.
媒体推荐 Spotlight Reviews
1.Compelling Suspenseful Novel, June 27, 2003
Reviewer: Sheri Melnick (Enola, PA United States)
Third in Ms. Chazin's Georgia Skeehan series, the latest installment finds this fire marshal for the FDNY resurrecting ghosts from her past, including the fire where her father was killed and the reappearance of her long-lost boyfriend, the father of her eight-year-old son Richie. But the crux of the novel centers around a fire at trendy Caf? Treize, that resulted in the death of two veteran firefighters and led Georgia and her partner, Randy Carter, to investigate `Freezer', aka Michael McLaughlin, former member of the Irish gang, the Westies, and all-around extortionist.
McLaughlin is as street-wise as he is savvy, as he turns to the FBI to protect him from the FDNY, claiming to help the feds find Coyote, a ruthless member of the Green Warriors, who use terroristic acts to aid their leftist environmental causes. While Georgia's sense of justice is sometimes at odds with her duties as a fire marshal, she shows a greater maturity in this latest read than in previous novels, especially when she is asked to go undercover as Freezer's girlfriend, much to the dismay of her boyfriend and boss, Mac Marenko.
Georgia must face some difficult choices when she finds out that her ex, Rick, might be involved with the mob and seems to know the members of the Green Warriors. Could he be a suspect in a recent arson, and does she want him to meet the son he abandoned eight years ago?
Georgia, the tough but loving woman and fire marshal, gives the reader insight into the emotions involved in the valiant profession of firefighting, even as she vows to arrest McLaughlin for his horrific crimes. Always suspenseful and compelling, Ms. Chazin's novel, written with her inside knowledge of the FDNY, puts Georgia on a par with April Woo, Leslie Glass' NYPD detective in her critically acclaimed April Woo series.
2.The Best of the Series!, June 21, 2004
Reviewer: "paula_k_98" (Muskogee, OK USA)
I haven't read in awhile and I just happened to see Fireplay by Suzanne Chazin and grabbed it because I have read her first two novels. Frankly, I thought it would be awhile before I read it. Wrong! I loved this book. I'm not going to give a play-by-play description of the plot since that has already been done.
What impressed me most was the emotional aspect of this book. In the first two books, you learned a lot of information about the technical side of firefighting with mystery and suspense. In Fireplay, you still get the suspense and mystery, but Ms. Chazin takes us a step closer in understanding the recurring characters. We see our heroine, Georgia, thrown into a situation way beyond her control, but she never lets up for an instant. All the major characters find themselves not knowing whom to trust or keeping things from each other. This adds to the drama. The ending-well, I never saw it coming.
Fireplay is a great novel. You can pretty well read this one without the first two. However, I have to recommend you read those as well. Ms. Chazin has a great series going on here. I will be looking for the next novel, even if I don't read anything else in between.
Customer Reviews
1.The Best of the Series!, Jun 21 2004
Reviewer: "paula_k_98" (Muskogee, OK USA)
I haven't read in awhile and I just happened to see Fireplay by Suzanne Chazin and grabbed it because I have read her first two novels. Frankly, I thought it would be awhile before I read it. Wrong! I loved this book. I'm not going to give a play-by-play description of the plot since that has already been done.
What impressed me most was the emotional aspect of this book. In the first two books, you learned a lot of information about the technical side of firefighting with mystery and suspense. In Fireplay, you still get the suspense and mystery, but Ms. Chazin takes us a step closer in understanding the recurring characters. We see our heroine, Georgia, thrown into a situation way beyond her control, but she never lets up for an instant. All the major characters find themselves not knowing whom to trust or keeping things from each other. This adds to the drama. The ending-well, I never saw it coming.
Fireplay is a great novel. You can pretty well read this one without the first two. However, I have to recommend you read those as well. Ms. Chazin has a great series going on here. I will be looking for the next novel, even if I don't read anything else in between.
2.Outstanding mix of police procedural/woman in jeopardy, Dec 23 2003
Reviewer: booksforabuck "BooksForABuck.com" (Dallas)
It started out as a routine fire in a restaurant basement. But then two firefighters were killed, and New York Fire Marshall Georgia Skeehan must sort through the evidence to determine who is responsible for the arson--and two murders. She is elated when an answering machine tape at the restaurant yields a clear-cut confession from a notorious torch, Michael McLaughlin. But suddenly there are Feds involved, and the fire department is ordered to keep their hands off McLaughlin. He's a confidential informant, and the magnitude of the FBI's case takes precedent over an arson case.
Georgia, who is a bit hot-headed, is livid over the Feds' high-handedness and finds herself part of the FBI's investigative team. It's the only way they'll keep her quiet. Soon she's working undercover with gangsters and terrorists, she almost gets blown up, and she realizes she has become a pawn in McLaughlin's little game. She also discovers she and McLaughlin have a history she didn't even know about, and the mysteries, lies and dead bodies pile up until Georgia doesn't know who to turn to, who to trust.
Fireplay is a really outstanding mystery that incorporates elements of a police procedural and a taut, woman-in-jeopardy story. The emotions were honest, and realistic details about fires and arson made me believe, for a couple of hours, that it was really happening. I can't give much higher praise than that. The only thing I didn't care for was the very last twist, which was so far-fetched it killed the believability factor. But it was almost an afterthought, thrown in as details of the mystery were being wrapped up, so it didn't really spoil the story for me.