“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. . . . Crais knows how to press all the right buttons in keeping the story line taut and the action, well, explosive.”—San Francisco ChronicleCarol Starkey is struggling to pick up the pieces of her former life as L.A.’s finest bomb squad technician. Fueled with … finest bomb squad technician. Fueled with liberal doses of alcohol and Tagamet, she’s doing time as a Detective-2 with LAPD’s Criminal Conspiracy Section. Three years have passed since the event that still haunts her: a detonation that killed her partner and lover, scarred her body and soul, and ended her career as a bomb tech.
When a seemingly innocuous bomb call explodes into a charred murder scene, Carol catches the case and embarks on an investigation of a series of explosions that reveal chilling intentions. The bombs are designed expressly to kill bomb technicians. Now, as the one tech who survived the deadliest of blasts, Carol is in for the most perilous fight of her life. . . .
Praise for Demolition Angel
“Terrific . . . explosive . . . [a] high powered thrill ride.”—The Wall Street Journal
“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
“A flammable techno-thriller with the kind of force that knocks out windows.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Packs an explosive punch. Though the pace of the book moves like a quick-burning fuse, Crais still takes the time in Demolition Angel to sketch out some memorable characters: Starkey, haunted and hollow-eyed, covering up her pain with a Bogart-tough demeanor; and John Michael Fowles (aka Mr. Red), a sociopath who gets all sorts of information from the Internet without breaking a sweat. . . . Crais keeps things wound so tight that readers will be getting paper cuts in their rush to finish this one.”—The Denver Post
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Great read!!!
I really don’t like this character. She seems to have no redeeming qualities.
Carole Starkey was a bomb cop, until her and her lover got blown up. He dies, she dies, but she is brought back. She loses her place on the bomb squad and has become a bitter drunk.
Then a former team member of hers is blown up while checking out a bomb, he hadn’t …
Excellent as always! Robert Crais is the best I’ve come across!
I love Robert Crais. He can’t write them fast enough for me! I enjoy both Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. Keep them coming! Write faster!!!
Not his best. Slow, dragging.
Not his best.
Very different from Pike and Cole but still a great read.
The book was okay. It had some twists and turns that caught me off guard, but it didn’t seem that original to me. I wish the main bomber character had been more developed or had more insight into his previous bombings.
An early Robert Crais novel with intriguing characters, a plot with lots of twists and left you wanting more.
Kept me interested until the end. Can’t ask for more than that in a book of this type. And I do really like this author; I think I may have read every one of his books.
Don’t read much in this genre but Crais gets it right. Compelling story that reveals its secrets one chapter at a time.
a fast moving easy read
Loved it.
one of my favorite books, can’t put it down
Explosive!
One of his first which demonstrates his gift for character development of flawed personalities!
The only Robert Crais book I didn’t finish.
I like reading Robert Crais. His novels are always action-packed, have just enough silly puns and brilliantly flawed characters.
In Demolition Angel we get to know Carol Starkey, a tough bomb tech. After being broken, she’s trying to get her life back together, survive in a male-domiated world and pretending she’s okay (and greatly failing at …
Three years ago, Carol Starkey lost her partner and lover when a bomb exploded. Heck, she almost lost her life herself, and she has lived with the scars, real and emotional, from it ever since. Now she is tasked with solving the murder of another LAPD bomb squad member killed by a bomb. The ATF thinks it was the work of Mr. Red, a serial …