Exposed (Maggie O'Dell Series) [Audiobook, CD, Unabridged] [Audio CD]

Alex Kava (Author), Tanya Eby (Reader)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2008 | Series: Maggie O'Dell Series (Book 6)

Agent Maggie O’Dell and Assistant Director Cunningham believe they’re responding to a threat made at Quantico. Instead they walk into a trap. Before they realize it, they’ve both been exposed to a killer who can strike at anyone, anytime and no one can predict who might be next…until it’s too late. The killer’s tactics suggest he’s an aficionado of criminal minds. He uses bits and pieces from those he admires: a phrase from the Beltway Snipers, a clue from the Unabomber, a delivery method similar to the Anthrax Killer. His weapon is a deadly virus, virtually invisible and totally unexpected. His victims appear to be random but, in fact, they are chosen with a revengeful precision. The vaccine is limited and untested. Maggie knows dangerous minds—from hauntingly perverse child predators to cunningly twisted serial killers. Now she faces a new opponent from inside an isolation ward at a biosafety containment hospital. Maggie must help Agent R. J. Tully find clues to catch the killer—while waiting to see if the deadly strain is already multiplying in her body. With every new exposure there’s the potential for an epidemic. And Maggie knows she and Cunningham may not live long enough to discover who is the deadliest, most intelligent killer they’ve ever profiled.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Last seen in A Necessary Evil (2006), FBI special agent Maggie O'Dell pursues a vengeful monster and his sadistic assistant who infect innocent people with the deadly Ebola virus in bestseller Kava's most terrifying psychological thriller to date. While investigating a bomb threat in suburban Elk Grove, Va., Maggie and her boss, Assistant Director Cunningham, become exposed to the virus. The pair wind up in the Slammer, an isolation ward within the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Md. On the outside, Maggie's partner, R.J. Tully, investigates other cases of exposure to the virus, including an entire Chicago hospital. After Maggie's release, a clue Tully uncovers from his past sends him racing to save Maggie from the evil mastermind responsible for the viral threats. Full of authentic details taken from similar real-life crimes, the smart, thrill-a-minute plot builds to a cliffhanger ending that will leave fans eager for the next installment. (Oct.)
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About the Author

ALEX KAVA’s two stand-alone novels and seven novels featuring FBI profiler Maggie O’Dell have been published in more than twenty countries, appearing on the bestseller lists in Britain, Australia, Poland, Germany, and Italy. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America and International Thriller Writers. Alex divides her time between Omaha, Nebraska, and Pensacola, Florida.

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Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed; Unabridged edition (October 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1596009047
• ISBN-13: 978-1596009042
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 6.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (86 customer reviews)

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ALEX KAVA's two stand-alone novels and seven novels featuring FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell have been published in more than twenty countries, appearing on the bestseller lists in Britain, Australia, Poland, Germany, and Italy. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America and International Thriller Writers. Alex divides her time between Omaha, Nebraska, and Pensacola, Florida.
Photo credit Deborah Groh Carlin

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Edge of your seat thrill ride all the way!, February 22, 2009

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Barbara Jackson "MadTaz" (Pawnee City, NE USA) - See all my reviews
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This well researched mystery is so believable that it scared me into finishing it as soon as I woke up in the morning after starting it very late one night. The characters are interesting and Maggie, the main character. is authentic, flaws and all, like a beloved relative who can aggravate the socks off you but you love her anyway. The story is relevant because it is taken from the headlines we have become too familiar with, the human "monsters" that prey on and destroy their vicitims and their families. A medical mystery wrapped in an FBI murder case basted with probability and research makes this a wonderful feast for the reader. I enjoyed this book immensly despite it scaring me half to death at times.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't Put It Down!, February 21, 2009

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This is the second Alex Kava novel I've read and I just loved it! I read the entire book in about a day and a half...I just couldn't put it down! If you like James Patterson, you will like Alex Kava. The chapters are short, the print is large and well spaced, and the writing style is an easy read. The storyline of Exposed was fantastic...a real page turner! Highly recommend.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Creepy, pulse-pounding chills, January 4, 2009

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Lynn Harnett (Marathon, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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Kava's sixth Agent Maggie O'Dell ("A Necessary Evil") thriller opens with her and her boss/mentor Assistant Director Cunningham investigating a bomb threat, which turns out to be a trap, sacrificing innocents to expose the agents to a deadly virus.

Maggie and Cunningham are clapped into The Slammer, a top-secret military medical isolation facility, which is about as sterile and intimidating as you might expect. We know it's Ebola before army doctor Colonel Benjamin Platt confirms it and we know it's already too late for Platt's boss' ruthless and pragmatic solution to the problem (which will strike most readers as cold-blooded political overkill).

Kava increases the sense of doom and horror by clueing the reader well ahead of the investigators. She switches point of view among Maggie, her partner Tully on the outside (whose troublesome teen daughter made him late for work that fateful day), Platt's feverish attempts to save everyone, the killer (actually the killer's assistant killer), and the intended victims, so we know that virus-laced packages have gone out to selected targets around the country and the clock is ticking down.

How and why the mastermind chooses his targets are chosen is a puzzle that entertains Artie, the mostly obedient killer's assistant, a crime buff who notes parallels with sensational crimes from the past and implements a few new parallels himself.

Colonel Platt is a tough, upstanding and sympathetic addition to the series who shows signs of being a keeper. The army facility is chillingly well done and the terror scenario is frighteningly easy to accept - particularly given all the allusions to successful past crimes, like the Tylenol tampering and the anthrax cases.

Fans and newcomers alike will enjoy Kava's usual mix of thrills, FBI profiling and procedure, gory details, personal complications and the headline-inspired plotting.