Fire and Flesh [Paperback]

Evan Kingsbury (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 31, 2002

BURN
It looks like a case of spontaneous human combustion. But it is only the beginning of an inexplicable death scourge that fills the air of a record-breaking heat wave with the smell of burning flesh.

BABY
As the temperature rises, so does the chaos. Preachers of doom are predicting Armageddon, but what's really happening is far more frightening than the rapture.

BURN!
A force beyond all human control is creating a hell on earth.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Jove (December 31, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0515134406
• ISBN-13: 978-0515134407
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,136,308 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific police/armagaddeon thriller, March 8, 2003

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Aaron Coupeland - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fire and Flesh (Paperback)

On a steaming hot day in Calcutta, India, a young girl dies. Her father, a local scientist forges a bond with a local pier burner to have her body incinerated. After the deal is completed, and as the man is exiting, a fellow Indain man comes up to him. He tells him that he will make a fantast for him beyond his wildest dreams. The man then turns into a snake like creature and burns the man to stone.

Three months later, during the heat of a Miami summer, a doctor is found dead inside her car with her insides turned to flame. As the days pass, the body count rises. When snake scales are found at one of the crime scenes, Detective Eric and Angelica Hunter find that they are dealing with more than a psycho pyro. It turns out that a serpent god with a power greater than you can ever imagine is rising to take over the world with the help of his host body. And, as Brannon and Hunter later find out, it grows with the feeding of human souls. As the tension grows, so does the action as two law enforcement officers struggle to save the world as we know it.

Full of suspense and action, FIRE AND FLESH is a superior by a new and gifted author. Think the movie, THE MUMMY only with snakes with Detective Richard Jury as Eric Brannon and Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta as Angelica Hunter. The book is positioned to fly off the shelves and be enjoyed by fans of Koontz and King.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoy, January 31, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Fire and Flesh (Paperback)

Your mentor, your surrogate father, one of your closest friends has a secret--one big enough to destroy all of humankind. Did you really know him at all? This dilemma threatens to overwhelm a young medical examiner in Miami. In the wake of her mentor's suicide, following a string of strange deaths, Dr. Angelica Hunter is left with an unfathomable mystery, but she must not wait to act. The fate of the world is the hands of Dr. Hunter and Detective Eric Brandon whose job it is to investigate these deaths.

What unfolds from this point is a captivatingly written story of suspense that holds you in its grip until the very end. Pursued by a god/monster who wants nothing more than to incinerate the bodies and souls of everyone in his path, Dr. Hunter and Detective Brandon must find a way to stop him before he reaches full strength. Each page holds a new struggle and demands your full attention. Will the doctor and detective be able to save themselves, much less the world?

Caution: Choose wisely where you decide to read this book. I read the entire second half of the book in one sitting while at my favorite hang out. Mesmerized by the story, I couldn't leave until I had finished.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars He has dipped his pen in the darkest depth of our fears !, January 18, 2005

By 

Pat Mullan (County Galway, Ireland) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Fire and Flesh (Paperback)

The title, FIRE & FLESH, does not do justice to this work of incendiary horror. The cover should carry warning labels:
- DANGER: ONCE OPENED,CAN NOT BE CLOSED!
- DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU WANT TO SLEEP TONIGHT!
- WARNING! THIS WILL HAUNT YOU FOR WEEKS!

The story opens in Calcutta, in streets so alive and so viscerally real that one tends to cross over from the imagined world on the page. Few works ever capture me like this.

The story moves to Miami, another place of unrelenting heat. I lived there for seven years and I can still feel the steering wheel of my car sear my hands in the parking lot. Well, from steamy Calcutta to searing Miami, this story burns, burns, burns!

Evan Kingsbury is Robert Walker, the author of the INSTINCT and the EDGE series. A sure hand, he has dipped his pen in the darkest depth of our fears in FIRE & FLESH !