Dead Tide by Jeannine Kadow  (8)
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Rising young television anchorwoman Lacie Wagner has been plagued by nightmares since the car accident that killed her father and burned and crippled her hands when she was 10. Now it appears that the menacing figure who whispers threats in her dreams may be not only a real person but a sadistic killer who is stalking her and her family. Kadow's second novel (after Blue Justice) begins with the mysterious burnout of a warplane in Alaska and quickly moves to the disappearance of a teenage girl in New York. Lacie's affluent and work-obsessed life turns tragic as she steps into a web woven by a madman who somehow knows every detail of her life and her past. The police seem unable to help, so Lacie opts to go after her mysterious shadower, relying on her own instincts, against her better judgment and in spite of her terrible fear of fire, to get to the bottom of the mystery. Assisting her is Jack Stein, an unconventional and attractive FBI agent. Excepting her protagonist, Kadow's characters seem to exist primarily to move the plot along (for example, Lacie's Uncle Max, who just happens to be a Delta Force commando). The depictions of the stalker's methods (he uses fire as both a threat and a tool) are compelling, if grisly. The story is dramatic, and although too many coincidences help Lacie and Jack unravel a decades-old mystery, readers will be drawn in by some ingenious twists. Ultimately, however, this is a standard vengeance thriller, and one with a very unfortunate tendency toward graphic torture scenes, including some that involve children. BOMC selection.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
BURNOUT is the story of Lacie Wagner, a hard-hitting Washington D.C. TV news reporter scarred from a fiery childhood accident that destroyed her hands and took her father's life. Since then, she has been haunted by horrific dreams filled with a stranger's face and whispering voice promising Lacie death by fire, the very thing she fears most.
Rising young television anchorwoman Lacie Wagner has been plagued by nightmares since the car accident that killed her father and burned and crippled her hands when she was 10. Now it appears that the menacing figure who whispers threats in her dreams may be not only a real person but a sadistic killer who is stalking her and her family. Kadow's second novel (after Blue Justice) begins with the mysterious burnout of a warplane in Alaska and quickly moves to the disappearance of a teenage girl in New York. Lacie's affluent and work-obsessed life turns tragic as she steps into a web woven by a madman who somehow knows every detail of her life and her past. The police seem unable to help, so Lacie opts to go after her mysterious shadower, relying on her own instincts, against her better judgment and in spite of her terrible fear of fire, to get to the bottom of the mystery. Assisting her is Jack Stein, an unconventional and attractive FBI agent. Excepting her protagonist, Kadow's characters seem to exist primarily to move the plot along (for example, Lacie's Uncle Max, who just happens to be a Delta Force commando). The depictions of the stalker's methods (he uses fire as both a threat and a tool) are compelling, if grisly. The story is dramatic, and although too many coincidences help Lacie and Jack unravel a decades-old mystery, readers will be drawn in by some ingenious twists. Ultimately, however, this is a standard vengeance thriller, and one with a very unfortunate tendency toward graphic torture scenes, including some that involve children. BOMC selection.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
BURNOUT is the story of Lacie Wagner, a hard-hitting Washington D.C. TV news reporter scarred from a fiery childhood accident that destroyed her hands and took her father's life. Since then, she has been haunted by horrific dreams filled with a stranger's face and whispering voice promising Lacie death by fire, the very thing she fears most.
By day, she is able to escape the torment of her dreams by losing herself in work, until her world is suddenly shattered: Her daughter disappears without a trace and Lacie discovers that her nightmare man is terribly real; an unknown enemy closing in, unleashing a firestorm of terror, using flame as a weapon to stalk and terrorize Lacie, to destroy everyone and everything in her life.
Turned away by police who do not believe her story, Lacie reaches out to iconoclastic FBI loner Jack Stein for help - pulling Stein literally into the line of fire too.
The killer reaches right into Jack Stein's soul, revealing his tragic secrets and shames, pushing Stein into the emotional limit, willing him to break. Stein counters in a complex psychological pas-de-deux, using the killer's own behavior as a weapon, peeling away the unkown layers of his enemy, finding logic in seemingly illogical violence, putting a face and a name to a man who swears he has neither. All the while, Stein is guiding Lacie deeper into her own forgotton past, into a memory gone black, to learn the killer's motive and understand what in God's name Lacie has done to deserve a living Hell on earth.
Stein is a killer-hunter, but he has never come up against a killer like this. Now, the enemy is a master of illusion, using cunning and artifice to draw Lacie and Stein in close, where they must literally fight fire with fire in a white hot climactic battle of good versus evil, high up in the winter frozen Tetons, where the stakes have been dramatically raised and the depth of the killer's madness is fully revealed.
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