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Down To The Wire (book)

4 Ratings: 2.3

A thriller by David Rosenfelt with reporter Chris Turley.

Bergen News reporter Chris Turley is tipped by phone about a potentially big story of political chicanery. But moments before he is to meet his anonymous informant, there is an explosion across the street, and Chris becomes an instant hero … see full wiki

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Extemely Intense and Frightening Thriller

May 5, 2010

by MichaelN
posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More

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What makes this thriller so frightening is that based on today's social and political climate, something like this could happen. Chris Turley is a reporter for a Bergen, NJ newspaper. His father Edward had been a star reporter for the same paper and was notorious for exposing bad people in the paper.

Acting on a tip to meet a guy at a park with information about the Mayor, Chris goes there. As soon as he arrives a building blows up and Chris rushes in to try to save possible survivors. This thrusts Chris into the media spotlight. Shortly after he receives the information from the informant (nicknamed P.T.) and is able to catch the Mayor in something illegal.

The amount of attention that Chris achieves now seems monumental and he appears on his way to eclipsing his father as a star reporter. What happens next is that P.T. is not the tipster he seems to be but is a serial killer that uses terrorist tactics to kill his victims. Somehow P.T. has focused on Chris as the one to cover his story.

People start dying in frightening manner like being blown up in their cars and killed by poison darts. Of course the police begin to think Chris fabricated the personna of P.T. and suspect that he may be the actual killer.

This is a tense thriller up to the end and Rosenfelt does another great job of deviating from his Andy Carpenter tales. I would have rated this book a solid five stars but there were a few obvious clues that Chris and the police are slow to catch on to, one involving an email.

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drifter51 May 05, 2010

I'm not usually into fiction but this book sounds very intriguing. Don't know that I would purchase it but if I came across it in the library I just might give it a shot. Thanks for the tip on this one. A very nice review!