Blood Work
by Michael Connelly
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Author: Michael ConnellyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-07-01
ISBN: 0446690449
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Book Review: One of Connelly's Best
Summary: 5 Stars
"Blood Work" has a fascinating plot, very cleverly conceived and worked out. The characters are well drawn, and their motivations are authentic. An FBI investigator, Terry McCaleb, gets drawn into a case because his transplanted heart was harvested from a murder victim. McCaleb is fanatical about fighting evildoers. It's a mission, a calling. He feels rage and joy when engaged hunting down and destroying evil. This is ultimately a story of redemption.
The technical stuff is absorbing. It's one of the strangest cases any crime writer has yet devised. McCaleb learns that the victims were not randomly murdered; they were prey and were stalked,
Clint Eastwood directed and starred in the movie which made a major change in the identity of the killer, a change which was a disappointment for readers of the novel. The killer in the movie became obvious, and was too convenient. Michael Connelly adapted his own book for the movie so he's the guilty party.
The murderer's plotting is almost too intricate to swallow, but it makes for a fascinating grabber of a story.
Connelly is a master of the gripping story line that gets the reader deeply involved. Connelly says homicide detectives speak for the dead. Of the murder investigator speaking for the dead, he says, "No other crime came with such a covenant."
Summary of Blood Work
New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly presents his most ambitious, most gripping achievement to date--a novel of masterly suspense and righteous obsession that will never let you go.When Graciella Rivers steps onto his boat, ex-FBI agent Terrell McCaleb has no idea he's about to come out of retirement. He's recuperating from a heart transplant and avoiding anything stressful. But when Graciella tells him the way her sister Gloria was murdered, it leaves Terry no choice. Now the man with the new heart vows to take down a predator without a soul. For Gloria's killer shatters every rule that McCaleb ever learned in his years with the Bureau--as McCaleb gets no more second chances at life...and just one shot at the truth.
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 suspected randomness of the crime gives way to an unsettling suspicion of a twisted intelligence behind the murder. Soon McCaleb finds himself on the trail of a killer more horrifying than anything he ever encountered before.
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