Blood Work (Signed Uncorrected Proof)

Michael Connelly

ISBN 10: 0316153990 / ISBN 13: 9780316153997

Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1998

About this Item

Advance Reading Copy/UNCORRECTED PROOF. A fine copy, with wrappers protected by plastic sleeve. SIGNED by Connelly on title page. Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-1271

Bibliographic Details

Title: Blood Work (Signed Uncorrected Proof)

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Recuperating from a heart transplant, former FBI agent Terril McCaleb learns that his heart donor died not in an accident but in a horribly brutal, unsolved murder. By the author of The Poet. 150,000 first printing. $250,000 ad/promo.

Review:

Michael Connelly has been attracting fans by the droves with his hard-boiled, edgy thrillers. A former crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Connelly combines a poet's ear for language with a deep understanding of the criminal mind to create dark, dramatic stories that raise the thriller genre to a new level.

In Blood Work, Connelly introduces a new character, Terry McCaleb, who was a top man at the FBI until a heart ailment forced his early retirement. Now he lives a quiet life, nursing his new heart and restoring the boat on which he lives in Los Angeles Harbor. Although he isn't looking for any excitement, when Graciela Rivers asks him to investigate her sister Gloria's death, her story hooks him immediately: the new heart beating in McCaleb's chest is Gloria's.

As McCaleb investigates the evidence in the case, the apparent randomness of the crime gives way to the unsettling suspicion of a twisted intelligence behind the murder. Soon McCaleb finds himself on the trail of a killer more horrifying than any he ever encountered before.