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Damaged : a Maggie O'Dell novel / Alex Kava.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385531993 (hc.)
- ISBN: 9780307474599 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 262 p. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday : c2010.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Jul 10 |
| Target Audience Note: | All Ages. |
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| Subject: | O'Dell, Maggie (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Criminal profilers > Fiction. Hurricanes > Florida > Fiction. Florida > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Suspense fiction. Mystery fiction. Detective and mystery stories. Suspense fiction. Mystery fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Gibsons Public Library | FIC KAVA (Text) | 30886000408563 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2010 June #1
FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell is tired and stressed when she gets a call from her colleague at Homeland Security, Charlie Wurth. A fishing cooler has surfaced in the waters near Pensacola, Florida, and it is not full of fish. She heads for Florida as Hurricane Isaac closes in on the area. Her boyfriend, Colonel Benjamin Platt, an infectious-disease expert, is also there investigating a mysterious virus that is killing soldiers returning from Afghanistan. The two cases come together as events unfold. This action-packed thriller moves from land to air to sea as Maggie, Coast Guard rescue swimmer Liz Bailey, Platt, and Wurth chase a ruthless criminal and look for the source of the infectionâall while the hurricane rages. This one will appeal to the adrenalin junkies who prefer their fictional crimes to be as grisly as possible. Copyright 2010 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2010 May #2
As Hurricane Isaac bears down on Florida, a grisly discovery off the Gulf Coast plunges FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell into a mystery with far-reaching implications.Dispatched to check out a capsized boat in the roiling Gulf Waters, Coast Guard rescue swimmer Elizabeth Bailey gets two nasty surprises. First, the tiny craft is nothing more than a watertight storage container. Second, the container, which Liz retrieves at some peril, holds a severed human foot. Thanks to the miracles of modern forensics and databases, the foot will eventually be identified as that of Vince Coffland, who disappeared from Port St. Lucie, 600 nautical miles away, during a hurricane. Long before then, however, Kava's frantic cross-cuttingâat one point she interrupts another thrilling sea-rescue sequence for a discussion of what sort of infection has killed an Afghan War vet back in a Pensacola hospitalâwill have tangled her cast in a complicated web. Readers are invited to connect the dots among profiler Maggie O'Dell; her physician lover, Col. Benjamin Platt, who's investigating a baffling outbreak of infections among service veterans; Liz's father, Navy veteran Walter Bailey; his son-in-law, funeral director Scott Larsen; and Joe Black, the mysterious Death Salesman who's paying Scott serious money to store corpses he's farming for body parts. Maggie (Black Friday, 2009, etc.) gets upstaged at every step by the hurricane, but at least it provides her the occasion for an all-too-brief confrontation with the villain who's pulling the strings.A faster-paced version of those disaster movies from the '70s.Author tour to New York, Washington, D.C., Phoenix, Houston, San Francisco, Los Angeles Copyright Kirkus 2010 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2010 February #2
As a hurricane roars into the Gulf of Mexico, the Coast Guard retrieves a cooler floating on the waves-and discovers that it is stuffed with body parts. Now Kava stalwart Maggie O'Dell must investigate. A steady series, and this one will appeal to natural-disaster fans; with a six-city tour. Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2010 June #2
The Coast Guard discovery of a container of body parts at sea brings agent Maggie O'Dell (Exposed; A Perfect Evil) to Florida and into the path of a destructive hurricane. Complicating matters further, O'Dell's love interest, Benjamin Platt, is in Florida on his own investigation, which may intersect with Maggie's. Dangerous weather, helicopter rides, and stress from her previous cases threaten to crack O'Dell before she can crack the case. VERDICT With a weaker story line and contrived connections between events, this eighth O'Dell outing, which marks Kava's Doubleday debut, is not as solid as the author's previous work. Fans will still want to read it but may find themselves disappointed by the end. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 2/15/10; six-city tour.]âColleen S. Harris, Univ. of Tennessee at Chattanooga Lib.
[Page 62]. Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2010 May #2
At the start of Kava's exciting, if grisly, eighth Maggie O'Dell novel (after Black Friday), Liz Bailey, a 27-year-old Coast Guard rescue swimmer, retrieves a stainless steel cooler from Florida's Pensacola Bay. Inside are human body parts. FBI special agent Maggie and Charlie Wurth, the Department of Homeland Security's deputy director, once again team to investigate. Meanwhile, Maggie's hunky new boyfriend, Col. Benjamin Platt, comes to Florida in search of monstrous bacteria killing too many soldiers. The two cases connect through a body-parts broker who calls himself Joe Black. Black may be as charming as Brad Pitt, who played Death in the film Meet Joe Black, but he's a cold-blooded murderer who uses natural disasters and shady funeral directors, like Liz's brother-in-law, to stock his business. Maggie must venture into the eye of Hurricane Isaac as this intense thriller builds to an eye-popping revelation that will leave fans eager for the sequel. 6-city author tour. (July)
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