基本信息出版社：Hyperion
页码：352 页
出版日期：2004年04月
ISBN：0786867256
International Standard Book Number：0786867256
条形码：9780786867257
EAN：9780786867257
装帧：精装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Pearson, Ridley
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ears ago, Lou Boldt's wife Liz had an affair with David Hayes, a young computer specialist at the bank where she is an executive. When Liz ended the relationship after reconciling with Lou, Hayes engaged in a daring embezzlement scheme. Now, years later, Hayes is trying to retrieve the money he hid for the Russian mob and contacts Liz to try to gain access to the bank's mainframe. Liz is torn between wanting to protect the bank and needing to protect her family. Boldt, ripped apart by the discovery of his wife's possible blackmail, must skate a delicate line between his incompatible roles as determined detective and jealous husband if he is to find the money while exposing and stopping Hayes. Intensely involving and revealing new aspects of Boldt's emotional makeup never before seen, The Body of David Hayes is Ridley's most gripping and engaging thriller yet.
作者简介 Ridley Pearson is the bestselling author of 14 novels. He was the first American to be awarded the Raymond Chandler/Fulbright Fellowship in detective fiction at Oxford University. Ridley lives with his wife, Marcelle, and their daughters in the Midwest and Northern Rockies.
媒体推荐 "The Body of David Hayes is a taut and intense thriller. Ridley Pearson is at the top of his game." -- Washington, D.C., Police Officer Quintin Peterson
"Intriguing, exciting, and highly recommended." -- Library Journal
"Pearson has done thorough and meticulous research into crime scenes and forensic science . . . Any professional in the field would enjoy." -- Donna J. Meade, Forensic Scientist II, Idaho State Police Forensic Services
"Strong, inventive and a decided cut above standard police procedurals with well-drawn, intense characters and great plotting . . . a must." -- The Baltimore Sun
"This is another of Ridley's spellbinders." -- Paul B. Kincade, Detective, Washoe County Sheriff's Office
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly
Lt. Lou Boldt is still top cop in the ninth installment of Pearson's Seattle Police Department series. (Undercurrents; No Witnesses; etc.). This time the case involves Boldt's wife, Liz, who's weathered many a storm throughout her marriage: chemotherapy, a separation, the kidnapping of their daughter and now the revelation of her affair with David Hayes, a computer whiz at the bank where she's an executive. Hayes embezzled $17 million and went to jail, but now he's free and the never-recovered money has both cops and robbers interested in his whereabouts. Liz had nothing to do with the theft, but Russian mobster Gen. Yasmani Svengrad (known as the Sturgeon General because he's the head of a caviar importing company) thinks the money belongs to him, and she's the key to getting it back. It's all extremely complicated, but with the help of Sgt. John LaMoia and Boldt's former lover police, psychologist Daphne Matthews, who is now living with LaMoia, Boldt hopes not only to solve the case but to protect his wife's reputation and keep his marriage from foundering. The difficulty is that Boldt's personal problems, which mount to near soap opera levels, tend to distract from the more interesting crime elements. Pearson's uneven writing too often veers into the mawkish when attempting to reveal Boldt's inner feelings ("She touched him once lightly on the arm as he opened the door. The tenderness of that gesture cut him to his core and he felt emotions ripple through him"). Pearson wisely eschews the sentimentalism as he builds to a climactic finale in which Boldt cleverly manipulates friend and foe alike to save Liz and serve justice.
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